carloslaso Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 I see Pioneer more likely being the ones to release an app for Car Play that lets Siri do all those things with all the new APIs Apple released on June 2nd. (I hope they improve the apps they make) Apple tends to only control hardware they make or companies that pay a lot of money to be certified by Apple. (Pioneer / Alpine) But like most of you said: Never say never. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
olevelo Posted June 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 It has nothing to do with Apple, or very little. It has to do with Pioneer and what they want to develop. There may already be clever ways to do it using existing hooks...I haven't dug into the API's to tell you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VBLUE42 Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 It has everything to do with Apple in this context. Anyway, what would make even more sense would be for Pioneer to simply re-implement voice control for thier units as they did with the Z series up to the Z130. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Thebrain.sherwood Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 and yet sony has done something very similar with an app on your iPhone or ipad Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tekki Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 It has everything to do with Apple in this context. Anyway, what would make even more sense would be for Pioneer to simply re-implement voice control for thier units as they did with the Z series up to the Z130. I do miss voice control of my z2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kolenka Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 and yet sony has done something very similar with an app on your iPhone or ipad Sony has created a control app sure, but that's not integrated with Siri or CarPlay. Apple has demonstrated at WWDC that while they are more willing to allow integration than in the past, it is still going to be on their terms. That means APIs for specific tasks, much like CarPlay's API where you give it access to your app's audio files, rather and presenting UI. So Apple would need to provide a generic Siri API (doesn't seem likely if they are doing task-focused things), or actually care about this scenario enough to do something about it, which makes no sense to me. iHeartRadio is a launch partner for CarPlay. Add support for something like TuneIn, and you have local FM/AM pretty much covered. Sirius XM integrated on iOS would cover that need as well. At that point, why would Apple care about the scenario of controlling your radio? Apple is skating to where the puck will be, and it isn't controlling your head unit. CarPlay and the like are about making head units a dumb terminal to your smartphone where it can be flexible, grow, adapt, and have access to cellular data. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VBLUE42 Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 Thank you Kolenka. Hopfully we can move on now? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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