Sorry, I am a Roadster driver, so not up to date with the model S, but:
Is there a App Store for the Model S? Is it planed?
Thanks!
Is there a App Store for the Model S? Is it planed?
Thanks!
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There is an official Model S app from Tesla Motors available in the Apple App Store.
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No, that is not what I meant. I thought about Apps you can buy from tesla to use on your car. So it does not exist yet?
Anyone getting ideas for Apps, I personally would like a Time Display App like I have on my Android phone. You know, like one you can SEE, with LARGE NUMBERS. An App would at least give a place to display it, unless someone could make the Time appear floating in front of whatever you have displayed on top. And not cover the controls for the Maps or Web. Like that will happen!
I don't see any hope that Tesla will increase the size of their Time Display as that location seems to be already crowded. There is room on the Dash Display still.
In every other car I know of built recently, the Time Display is a good half inch high number. (Back in the 60s, there were cars, even Cadillacs, which did not come with a clock, even. But that was then.)
I don't know about when the SDK is coming as Tesla has not given a date, but I think Musk said something about running Android apps in 2014.
How about an app that when you connect to a public charger. It would use plugshare data and mark that charger as in-use and also report how much % the car is at and how much estimate is left. Also allow you to send a message to the car owner's phone without giving away their personal phone number. Also maybe calendar integration to let people put in there planned destination and it would warn people if there is a possibility of too many people using the same charger at the same time.
Of course a lot of this can probably be done now to an extent manually or other means. But this way it can be done hassle free for the owners so it would be easier to convince people who don't like to deal with hassles to get it as it would help them too with no extra effort.
Anyone getting ideas for Apps, I personally would like a Time Display App like I have on my Android phone. You know, like one you can SEE, with LARGE NUMBERS. An App would at least give a place to display it, unless someone could make the Time appear floating in front of whatever you have displayed on top. And not cover the controls for the Maps or Web. Like that will happen!
I don't see any hope that Tesla will increase the size of their Time Display as that location seems to be already crowded. There is room on the Dash Display still.
In every other car I know of built recently, the Time Display is a good half inch high number. (Back in the 60s, there were cars, even Cadillacs, which did not come with a clock, even. But that was then.)
Have you seen the "time4tesla" website? It's a nice LARGE clock that you can bring up in the Tesla browser in the car. I use it all the time.
Just save this to your Favorites in the car: http://dash.time4tesla.com
I somehow suspect that an App store is one of Tesla's lower priorities. At launch they said "at least a year", but I suspect the real answer is at least "several".
here is another idea for when they do focus on it - a version of Kindle to provide a synthesized voice to read your kindle books.
The 8,000 member Authors Guild—the RIAA of the publishing world—has complained about the text to speech feature on the Amazon Kindle 2, which can read aloud your ebook in a computerized voice (something text to speech programs have been doing for years). The Guild says that’s equivalent to an audio book, and that Amazon can’t just allow it without paying extra, so last Friday Amazon caved in and announced they’ll let writers and publishers disable the feature on a title by title basis moving forward.