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The Connected Car: 2013 Edition Page 2

OEM update: Ford introduced the AppLink feature for its Sync system at CES 3 years ago — and only a handful of apps for the platform since then. This year, Ford released almost a dozen new AppLink apps for everything from USA Today to Rhapsody to BeCouply, which allows “users to discover great date ideas.” (Alrighty then....) 

Meanwhile, crosstown Motown rival GM also debuted a smattering of new apps for its MyLink system. But the trickle of in-car apps could soon turn into a torrent since Ford and GM announced at CES that both are opening up their APIs and dashboard to outside developers in the same way that Apple and Google opened their platforms and created the current app avalanche. Ford even went a step further by announcing that it’s making Sync AppLink available to any automaker that wants to use it. The goal of this gambit is to create a large, Android-like, open-source app platform for the car and hopefully entice developers to devote more attention to space rather than having to hassle with creating separate apps for each automaker’s proprietary platform. But we’ll have to wait to see if any competitor carmakers take Ford up on the offer.

Until then, happy motoring, listening, and hands-free accessing!

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Submitted by rooseveltkuhn on January 12, 2016 - 1:02am

When you think about a “connected auto, you probably consider fancy car stereos that may play songs from a Smartphone. But the hooked up car is evolving into something much more complex. In the next couple of years, automakers like Ford, GM, BMW and Honda are going to be pushing way past the dashboard to connect our cars in a myriad of new ways. Our cars won’t you should be connected to our phones plus the internet, but to other cars and also the highway per se. But building the connected car gifts some unusual problems. For one, if carmakers don’t find the right technology, they could be handcuffed for many years. The planning to get a new car will begin years before the idea hits the showrooms visit, and carmakers then ought to continue to assistance those technologies so long as their customers usually are driving those autos. If they make a bad technology guess, carmakers can be experiencing the consequences for an extended time.

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