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0 pointsgodelski1y ago0 comments

> I don’t think Apple sees this as a promising revenue stream.

Isn't the value of CarPlay/AndroidAuto indirect? As in that the value is coming from the data being generated to enable better mapping? Because the truth is that some of these mapping services' main utilities depend on a large network of users (e.g. information about congestion, road notices, etc[0]). In that way it seems beneficial to get your app onto as many vehicles as possible and even gives motivation for making CarPlay cross-platform (even if the main benefits only go to Apple users).

[0] Also, wtf AndroidAuto. You pull data from Waze users for things like speed traps, road hazzards, etc, but you don't let me contribute when using Auto? Why is there no button (or voice command) "report road hazard"? Hell, this'll even help you classify events for your ML models.

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SOLAR_FIELDS1y ago

The information you are referencing could be retrieved without CarPlay though. I am sure car specific data has some value to Apple, but given they aren’t really in the car business it might not be the primary driver/motivation here. It’s probably more likely that the data was way more valuable when they were building their own car but now that has been scrapped perhaps not as much?

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0 pointsgodelski1y ago0 comments

> I don’t think Apple sees this as a promising revenue stream.

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