Any chance Apple play could be a software upgrade?

[DougUnplugged]

Interesting. I wonder if it’s regional.

I was reminded of this yesterday. I was using Tesla nav and I thought, oops, I better also try Waze. Once again, if there could be a different freeway, Waze and Tesla disagreed. It was amazingly weird. It was like Obama and Trump. If Waze found one way, Trump, I mean Tesla, would disagree with it.

 

[Kejohannsen]

Teslas obviously would not be, since they don't even support phone music playback via USB on their own media player software.

Essentially every car manufactured after 2011 can play music from phones over USB. This boggles my mind that Tesla doesn’t allow it. As an audiophile I can definitely tell the difference. My last car had Bluetooth streaming but I specifically made the effort to plug it in for better quality.

 

[Knightshade]

Essentially every car manufactured after 2011 can play music from phones over USB. This boggles my mind that Tesla doesn’t allow it. As an audiophile I can definitely tell the difference. My last car had Bluetooth streaming but I specifically made the effort to plug it in for better quality.

Yeah, that's why all my music is on a USB key in the Tesla... the interface still sucks but the quality is a lot better.

 

[thewinelake]

I’m fairly certain that you don’t need a special bit of hardware in a CarPlay client. I have a cheap dongle that does it for Android tablet. Not very well, I concede....

But I agree with those that say it’s mostly down to a mix of not G’ing a F and some sense of propriety about the UX.