CarPlay for Infiniti Vehicles
does anyone know when apple will be offering CarPlay for Infiniti cars? Or the ability to reply through the Infiniti InTouch system?
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Its not up to Apple to offer it. Its up to Infinity to make it available in their cars. Apple has made the required software and hardware available to car manufacturers, they need to implement it in their cars.
Contact Infinity and ask them when they will include it in their cars.
I Contacted Infiniti two weeks ago and I was told it's an apple issue. Especially with not being able to reply to messages through the car system. Said there were some software limitations.
CarPlay requires hardware in the car, hardware that Infiniti must include in their cars. . If you are just using Bluetooth features, that is not CarPlay.
For Carplay your screen must look like the screen on Apple's website. Otherwise its just Infinit's equivalent of NissanConnect, and is unrelated to CarPlay.
http://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/
While there may be limitations, its not directly related to CarPlay.
CarPlay is available to Car and electronic Manufacturers that want it. Ferrari has included it in its vehicles, and Pioneer, has made after market media centers you can install in your car that offer Carplay. Apple is not limiting Carplay release.
Thanks. It's such a nice car and it doesn't have these extra features
soniaperry wrote:
Thanks. It's such a nice car and it doesn't have these extra features
Not Apple's fault. if it means that much to you, you should have checked out those features before you bought it.
It was never a deal breaker. Just something nice to have. Plus is was never explained that I wouldnt be able to reply through the car. And I only found out later on through forums
This is true.
In Apple's Bluetooth Accessory Design Guidelines, in regard to 2.2.3 Message Access Profile (MAP) [page 12 in the PDF linked below] it notes: "Every accessory that is compatible with an Apple product and supports MAP shall ... Not provide a user interface for sending messages. iOS devices do not support sending messages using MAP."
CarPlay for Infiniti Vehicles