CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, begins rolling out today
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Today, CarPlay Ultra is available with new Aston Martin vehicle orders in the U.S. and Canada, and will be available for existing models in the coming weeks.

Coming to Aston Martin in US and Canada for now. Hyundai/Kia/Genesis should follow: let’s see how quick it will actually come to the masses and which current vehicles can get it through software update.

  • malloc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    14 days ago

    My increasing distrust for big tech has soured me on “deep integrations” like this. I feel this is just laying the foundation for subscription based cars.

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