We have been waiting for Apple Carplay Ultra for three years. Now we have even more doubts about your success

From that WWDC held in 2022Apple users have been waiting for that New carplay generation that Never arrived. After almost three years, the company has made the name of its new operating system for cars official. One in which integration with the screens of the same It is practically complete.

Carplay Ultra. Carplay’s new generation is called Carplay Ultraand it is exactly as Apple showed it two years ago in Porsche and Aston Martin cars. A system fully integrated in car screens and systems, including speedometer, fuel indicators and elements such as air conditioning.

Apple does not want Carplay Ultra to be a system apart from the car interface: he wants to be the system that controls it completely. With all that this implies for manufacturers, which will have to give in to offer.

In Aston Martin alone. Apple is Apple, and there was no more exclusive brand than Aston Martin to release his new carplay generation. The owners of the DB12, Vantage, Vanquish or DBX 707 will be the first to enjoy this Carplay update, first in the United States and with a predictable global expansion within the next 12 months.

It will be necessary to have a iPhone 12 or superior executing iOS 18.5 or more recent versions. There is no news, saving Porsche as a partner, what more companies will join to give him (literally) the controls to Apple.

Afternoon and bad. Apple Carplay Ultra It arrives after months latewith a condition that makes it clear that this system will not be for everyone. This update requires that the manufacturer yield practically all control over the elements of the Apple interface.

Speedometer, tachometer, maps and music information, air conditioning … Carplay Ultra wants to be like Android Automotivebut at all times depending on the iPhone being connected.

There is also no trace on how Siri will help us and be integrated with the car … because there are no news. The Nueva Siri is still in the airwhile Google pushes showing How Gemini will work on Android Automotive.

The iPhone as a center. This is precisely one of CarPlay Ultra’s biggest problems: depending on an external device. In cars with Android Built-in, Android Automotive is the operating system, and does not depend on any time we have the connected mobile.

With the Apple approach, without iPhone there is no paradise: Carplay Ultra is not a pre -installed system in the car, and this is a problem for the type of vehicle to which it is oriented: the luxury. Use carplay or Android car wirelessly It is an important punishment for the phone’s battery, and can cause yield inconsistencies when it is low (savings mode).

For how many. The big doubt that Carplay Ultra throws is … for whom he is. That Apple has Aston Martin as the main partner is relevant, but Google also chose Polestar to release Android Automotive and ended up arriving at more mainstream marks.

The key with Carplay Ultra is the assignment of almost complete control in a system that is not pre -installed natively. It does not seem easy for manufacturers to be willing.

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