"GeorgeyBoy" (georgeyboy)
05/26/2015 at 22:26 • Filed to: None
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"GeorgeyBoy" (georgeyboy)
05/26/2015 at 22:26 • Filed to: None | 1
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Android should’ve been in mass production cars like 4 years ago.
bryan40oop
> GeorgeyBoy
05/26/2015 at 22:33 |
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They didn’t want to rush it and screw it up. Or just waited until the auto manufacturers got desperate enough to shell in some cash/incentive to develop android for auto use.
jvirgs drives a Subaru
> GeorgeyBoy
05/26/2015 at 22:34 |
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I would kill to have the Garmin Nav in my Dart switched to Google Maps.
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GeorgeyBoy
> bryan40oop
05/26/2015 at 22:40 |
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I feel like the car companies could’ve saved money adopting it early instead of trying to make these shit infotainments in house.
In 2008 I would’ve took the latest android smartphone glued in my dash than the latest infotainment system.
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bryan40oop
> GeorgeyBoy
05/26/2015 at 22:53 |
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“I feel like the car companies could’ve saved money adopting it early instead of trying to make these shit infotainments in house.”
They didn’t make them in house, they outsourced.
“In 2008 I would’ve took the latest android smartphone glued in my dash”
With everything such as heated/cooled seats, hvac, satellite radio, etc, etc all being controlled through these infotainment systems its a bit more complicated than that.
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GeorgeyBoy
> bryan40oop
05/26/2015 at 23:03 |
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-I guess they should’ve all outsourced to someone like Google. Some companies outsourced very little. Why try to design their own separate complex systems when the latest android for smartphones would’ve been sufficient?
-I don’t think that android auto even needs to have hvac integrated or if it even can.
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bryan40oop
> GeorgeyBoy
05/26/2015 at 23:13 |
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“-I don’t think that android auto even needs to have hvac integrated or if it even can.”
It doesn’t, but it’s what people have become accustomed too so it will.
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GeorgeyBoy
> bryan40oop
05/26/2015 at 23:17 |
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They have?
I’m perfectly content leaving hvac to tactile knobs and buttons.
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bryan40oop
> GeorgeyBoy
05/26/2015 at 23:23 |
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Oh yeah, remember the ford/lincoln fiasco? Their elderly customers couldn’t figure out how to turn the a/c & etc on lol.
But It looks like that trend is going the way of the dodo luckily, but if it will be completely independent once again who knows.
Robert Jones
> GeorgeyBoy
05/27/2015 at 01:27 |
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Ford awesomely outsourced to Microsoft who you might think would be knowledgeable about operating systems, but then chose to have some Ford guys screw up what MS gave them to differentiate it from the competitors.
And, I suppose, in a way: it did differentiate it from the competitors.