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  • Possibly the fact many customers don’t want it. According to three Apple CarPlay site:

    With digital car keys and the already seamless experience of Apple CarPlay, there are more ways than ever to take your iPhone on the road. With car keys, you can unlock and start your car with iPhone. And CarPlay gives you the ability to safely use what you love about your iPhone while you drive.

    I don’t have an iPhone, so from all the marketing blurbs, it’s pretty much saying “Spend a ton of extra money for something you can never use.” I’ll pass on spending $1000+ on that useless"upgrade". And since Apple is notorious about locking iThings to Apple only hardware (or just not having full functionality when they do allow it), I doubt I’m alone in this thought.











  • Biggest issue is they had a huge marketing campaign based on all these things Apple Intelligence could do, with dates saying when it will come and that you needed to buy the newest iPhone for them to happen. Those dates have come and gone and still no signs of it. If the next iPhone comes out and they still haven’t released it, they risk a huge lawsuit of mis-advertising. It doesn’t matter whether users use the feature or not, it was advertised, and very directly.

    Normally, Apple is cautious/careful how they phrase things about their devices so they could back away if something doesn’t go right or doesn’t do what was suggested/implied. But they can’t this time.






  • But we are talking about the average user. And the average user uses their smartphone as their main computer. What you as a single person isn’t what the subject is. You’ve gone off topic.

    The average person is most likely using their Android (Linux) device as their “desktop”. The year of the Linux desktop has been a reality for years. They use it to call, make appointments, email, send and receive official documents, sign those documents (DocuSign), photo for business reasons and expenses, etc… I used to do inventory and order management on mine.

    “Smartphones are the most widely used devices globally, with 5.3 billion users… Laptops are used by 1.8 billion people… Desktops, with 1.2 billion users globally”

    Android is based on Linux, true but it is hardly a desktop environment

    Technology changes, and with it comes it’s shape and form. Many would have told you that a GUI is hardly a desktop environment before. What makes it “hardly a desktop environment”? And don’t say “I can’t do my job” because again, we are talking about the average user, not you.

    I’ve seen businesses run completely on Android. Most POS units are Android. They do sales, ordering (from supplies), employee payrolls, time sheets, a whole business.

    What else would it need to do, that the average user would want/need, to make it more “official”? “carrier/Google from a privacy/enshittification perspective” Pretty much every OS is having this issue, and devices can be purchased without carrier controls (I bought mine like that.)