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Apple CarPlay - Use your iphone safely in the car

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Adam Sigel
Based on this video, I think we'll be able to look back at some point and realize that CarPlay was the ROKR moment in Apple's plans to create a better in-car experience: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/04...
Jonathan Howard
@adamsigel I'm not familiar with that, what do you mean by "ROKR moment"?
Adam Sigel
@staringispolite The ROKR was a Motorola device that had iTunes built-in. It was a precursor to the actual iPhone. It was not really an "Apple experience" and just had some Apple licensed technology backed into someone else's platform, and it was a flop. CarPlay looks to be largely the same since it's actually built on QNX and is not being marketed (nor does it seem to be built) to Apple's standards.
Jonathan Howard
Aha! Yeah, I would tend to agree with that. I'm more excited about this as a potential inflection point than this specific iteration.