During WWDC last year, Apple released a new version of CarPlay and claimed that it would be available in the fourth quarter of this year. Compared with the old version, the new version of CarPlay brings Apple's exclusive design style, no longer satisfied with only controlling the entertainment screen, but the car dashboard, temperature control and infotainment unit are all integrated to display Apple's tuning interface, and the passenger screen and dashboard will be displayed as Apple's retuned screen.
For example, the new version of CarPlay for the Porsche version was announced, and the main driver's seat was adopted"Three barrels"The dashboard interface, the large central control screen and the passenger screen all show Apple's retuned CarPlay interface.
Although CarPlay is very "fragrant" and is actively embraced by car companies, more and more car companies are explicitly abandoning CarPlay. General Motors had previously planned to stop supporting CarPlay, and its new Cadillac pure electric car Escalade IQ native car machine began to no longer support CarPlay and Android Auto functions, and instead used its own proprietary car machine system.
As for the reason, the person in charge of General Motors said that it was because CarPlay may have problems such as poor connection and slow response speed, which may cause distraction for drivers. But in fact, this is just a superficial statement, but if you look back at the deeper reason, it is because the new version of carplay requires more permissions.
The old version of carplay,In fact, you only need to cast a screen on the mobile phone and the car machine system,It's just to connect the **、SMS、Gaode map、**software through wifi and Bluetooth,Use the car screen to control the mobile phone。 The fundamental reason is that he does not need car companies to open a lot of permissions, and the mobile phone will not access important data of the vehicle.
But the new version of CarPlay is different, he can take over all the screens in the car, and display the vehicle speed in real time, control the air conditioning, etc., which is equivalent to a deep takeover of the vehicle, requiring car companies to open more permissions and provide more interfaces, and all kinds of real-time information of the car may be transmitted to the user's iPhone, and this information will be analyzed and returned to the vehicle by iPhone.
As a result, there is a possibility of leakage of driving data for car companies' models, and the entire car is about to be fully controlled by Apple, which can collect a large amount of driving data through CarPlay. As a result, more and more car companies are unwilling. Because if Apple collects these driving data, wouldn't it help Apple build cars?I don't believe that any car company wants to work for Apple.