on the podcast<\/a>, Apple makes it official. As the name implies, it’s sorta like AirPlay, but for your car. Once your iPhone is connected, it’ll allow you to perform 4 main functions; calls, maps, music & messages. You can control it either with the car’s screen, or just through Siri.<\/p>\nIt comes with all the usual Apple services, but interestingly, it’s also supporting a small set of other streaming music providers in Spotify & iHeartRadio.<\/p>\n
CarPlay will be available as an iOS 7 update for any ‘Lightning-enabled’ iPhone. Wonder if that means it’s a mount in the car, and not a bluetooth or wireless connection? In any case, only Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz & Volvo are introducing cars this week (at the Geneva International Motor Show) that integrate CarPlay. So be prepared to fork out some serious dough if you’re keen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple PR: Apple today announced that leading auto manufacturers are rolling out CarPlay, the smarter, safer and more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,701,702,705,703,704],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}