With Apple CarPlay you can easily connect your smartphone to your car. You will then see the same icons as on your phone screen and you can call hands -free, listen to Spotify, use navigation apps and more.
Apple CarPlay Ultra
Apple CarPlay Ultra goes one step further. It works on all screens in the car, not only on the central touchscreen, and therefore also takes over the digital instruments behind the wheel. It more or less replaces the built -in infotainment system.
Apple showed CarPlay Ultra for the first time three years ago and then called that fourteen car brands had promised their cooperation, including Audi, Ford, Honda, Land Rover, Mercedes, PolestarPorsche, Renault and Volvo. Hyundai and Kia later confirmed that they would participate.
Brands are withdrawing
A number have since withdrawn, The Financial Times writes. Audi, Mercedes, Polestar, Renault and Volvo, for example, don’t want anything to do with Apple CarPlay Ultra anymore. The system goes too far, is the consensus. Renault would have said to Apple: “We don’t want anyone to infiltrate our own systems.”
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And that makes sense. Manufacturers are probably not waiting for an ‘Apple invasion’ because they have invested billions in their own digital infrastructure in recent years. So it goes without saying that they want to keep control over it.
The software in a car generates a lot of valuable data and also becomes an increasingly important source of income, with digital ‘stores’ in which the air options can be purchased. Although BMW is there in the recent past I went into the fog.
Google Android technology
Audi has confirmed that it will not apply CarPlay Ultra in its models, but emphasizes that it will continue to support the standard version of CarPlay. Incidentally, Polestar, Renault and Volvo use Google Android software in their cars, so maybe that is also a reason to why they do not want to cooperate with Apple.