People haven't used Sync recently if they mount the "touch screen while driving" argument.
The touch screen in my C-Max simply doesn't function if the car is in motion. And you don't need to use it anyway. First off, everything has the same physical buttons as you'd have anyway, but better still voice commands handle most everything and work extremely well. Frankly, I find it the only setup worthy of being modern 2014 technology. Car systems are mostly still stuck in 1994 or something. It's pretty pathetic. The system in a friend's new BMW made me laugh the other day... I thought I was back in the 90's. Really? This much for a car and the electronics still suck this hard?
I've long said it; Apple should get into this businesses because clearly SOMEONE needs to set a decent standard other than Microsoft. If there's anyone that could whip everyone in line and bring car tech forward to where it should already be, it's Apple.
Looks like possibly they agree.
Go use a new ford car, because you clearly haven't
The fusion I used had a touchscreen that worked when driving, and to turn on something like the heated seats...oh, there's no dedicated button. It's buried 2 menus deep in mytouch. It was a giant sack of crap.
As for systems being stuck in 94...I don't know which BMW you used, but some of them are actually pretty decent. Hell of a lot more car under the hood, engine stops when the car stops, driving modes and all that.
The SE version up has dedicated buttons for nearly everything including heated seats.
Personally I wouldn't want a newer Ford that wasn't a Hybrid. I have the '13 C-Max Energi plug in hybrid. It has dedicated buttons for just about everything. In fact one of the big reviewer complaints about Ford interiors is almost too many buttons.
Honestly I doubt I'll ever even use the heated seat buttons... its kind of a dumb feature to me, but then I suppose I'd feel differently if I didn't live in socal where the need for your car to keep your ass warm is practically nil.
I have had two QNX based cars (TSX and A4) and BOTH have had SERIOUS issues requiring reboots. Sync has been so much better in my experience, and I regret getting another card with QNX in it.
I absolutely disagree with any reviewer who says too many buttons most of the time. My A4 is FULL of buttons....but it's because for every feature in the infotainment system (heated seats, fan speed, temp and so forth) I have a hard button to press to accomplish the task I want in addition to using the on screen controls.
The SE Fusion doesn't have the touch screen. The Titanium does. The reason I want buttons is that I can FEEL for them. I can learn where they are. They're not contextual, nor do they move location. They're always in the same place and do the same thing. I go into the mountains often for skiing, snowshoeing, night sky photos and so forth. So I often reach for the heated seats. Or the defroster. Or the next track button.
Long story short: your experience with your CMAX is one thing. You cannot make broad declarations like "People haven't used Sync recently if they mount the "touch screen while driving" argument." and apply it to all cars when your knowledge isn't complete.
You're just shifting goalposts like crazy. These features aren't free. The same options are available on the Fusion and other Ford models- you're the one making proclamations that x isn't available any other way but through the touch screen, when clearly that's not true.Long story short: your experience with your CMAX is one thing. You cannot make broad declarations like "People haven't used Sync recently if they mount the "touch screen while driving" argument." and apply it to all cars when your knowledge isn't complete.
You're just shifting goalposts like crazy. These features aren't free. The same options are available on the Fusion and other Ford models- you're the one making proclamations that x isn't available any other way but through the touch screen, when clearly that's not true.
Also you of course skirted the point- you can use voice commands which are the best option of all anyway. I find voice to be more reliable than either, certainly while driving. You can control pretty much all the features that really matter. Warming your butt, well, I guess you need the right model and options package if that's so high on your priorities list.
I think the lack of any responses to this thread succinctly summarizes the lack of enthusiasm about CarPlay.
The main thing I hate about Siri is that there isn't a dedicated button for it. Maybe they'll change that in a future iPhone.
Great, now my car will be incompatible with Android and need to be upgraded every 2 years.
I see you're still flailing around like a crazy person.What? No, I didn't change the goalposts. You said that the touchscreen doesn't work when driving. I said it did in the Fusion I drove, and there was no button for the heated seats. You showed a picture of a car that wasn't a fusion as evidence I was wrong. You said things like "My guess is if you actually drove a fusion" without ACTUAL evidence. You owned yourself.
As for voice commands, those are GREAT if you're alone. They suck if you're deep in conversation. "Hold on, I want my butt to be warm, shut up so I can use sync to make it happen." Give me a break.
YOU were wrong about new Fords not having buttons for heated seats (your own derail by the way not mine). New Fords DO have those buttons including the Fusion you just can't seem to grasp that these are part of OPTIONS packages, not something you get with the base model. How obvious is that?
The fusion I used had a touchscreen that worked when driving, and to turn on something like the heated seats...oh, there's no dedicated button. It's buried 2 menus deep in mytouch. It was a giant sack of crap.
its ironic that you're posing having driven a newer one and don't know the options.
Make an aftermarket double din head unit with it and I'll buy. It's pretty much exactly what I was looking for it to be. Something simple and minimal that essentially just pulled over the stuff from the phone. Only thing i'd like is if they would allow google maps but I'm not holding my breath on that one.
Your problem is you do "simple" but you don't do "comprehend anything that's actually said".Let's make this simple for you, since you have reading comprehension issues:
Car has MyFord Touch, it has no buttons for some functionality because you're expected to do it through the touch screen. You accused me of not driving a Fusion. I did, and I'm talking facts here. You're not.
Your ranting about buttons has virtually NOTHING to do with MyFord Touch, and everything to do with you not even understanding something as simple as an options package on vehicles.I've ALWAYS talked about MyFord Touch.
Nice try coming up with silly hypotheticals, but I've used voice commands just fine with kids in my car, my wife, friends, etc.As for voice, let's see how well it works when you have kids screaming in the back seat. Oh, it'll work as well as Siri does now...which means it won't. Voice has it's own issues. It's great when there's no ambient noise in the car, but the second there IS ambient noise of some form, it will run into issues until there's a serious jump in audio processing to isolate specific voices and ignore others.
I have serious doubts this will happen - someone like Alpine would have to get a license to use the interface from Apple...and I doubt this will happen.
The Fusion DOES have the option to have a button for the heated seats.
Because it's not worth the trouble or because Apple wouldn't allow it? I can certainly see a market for it.