Last night, apple took over all the screens in the car. Early this morning, Apple's annual global developer conference (WWDC 2022) opened online As in previous years, Apple released a new version of its operating system on WWDC, and also launched an M2 chip that is more "fried" than M1.
At the nearly two-hour press conference, Apple also unveiled its new car mapping system Carplay. Although Apple has only a 3.5 minute brief introduction to the new Carplay based on IOS 16, it can be found that Carplay, which is 8 years old this year, has ushered in the biggest update since its release.
▲ apple Carplay
From the presentation of the press conference, the new Carplay has a number of important changes.
- Carplay supports all screens in the car, regardless of screen size or horizontal or vertical screen shape.
- The interface of Carplay supports automobile instruments, which can display various data such as speed, engine speed, oil temperature, oil volume, etc. in the instrument, and its functions are almost the same as those of the original automobile instrument.
- Carplay supports the control of hardware equipment such as air conditioning and seats in the car.
It can be said that Apple's new Carplay is a complete intelligent cockpit system. As long as it is connected, users do not need to use the original system. All screens in the car are Carplay experience.
In 2014, apple cooperated with some car companies to install the IOS based mapping system Carplay into the models of Mercedes Benz, Ferrari, Volvo and other brands. Since then, Carplay has almost become the standard configuration of joint-venture imported models, making up for the shortcomings of overseas car companies in the field of intelligent cockpit.
However, although Carplay has been updated to some extent with IOS system, it still shows some weakness in the face of the outbreak of smart cockpit in 2022.
Can Carplay, which has undergone major design changes and supports all screens in the car, become the core competitiveness of the intelligent models of joint-venture imported brands, and compete with new power car companies?
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All instruments can be customized after major design changes
In the home speech of Apple WWDC 2022, a "ecosystem" was specially opened up. Carplay is one of the important ecosystems of IOS.
Emily Schubert, senior manager of Apple automotive experience engineering, said in his speech that 98% of the models in the United States now support Carplay, and 79% of new car buyers in the United States believe that they will only consider buying cars equipped with Carplay.
▲ Emily Schubert, senior manager of Apple automotive experience engineering
However, with the development of intelligent automobile, great changes have taken place in the car. From the perspective of hardware, the car screen becomes larger, and the number of screens in the car is also increasing. If Carplay still only supports a single screen, it is obviously unable to support rapid iterative updates in the automotive industry.
So iphone As the core computing device of Carplay, its computing performance has been greatly improved, which has more potential in the car.
In the demonstration animation of Carplay, the most striking thing is that it supports all screens in the car.
Carplay can perfectly support the instrument, the central control, the co driver, or the "hairtail" screen in the car. Unlike before, it can only support a single horizontal screen.
▲ new Carplay Preview
In terms of software experience, the new Carplay also has considerable upgrades.
The first is the instrument. As the core driving component, automobile instruments have high requirements for safety and stability. Generally, automobile enterprises will not open to third-party manufacturers. Apple's Carplay supports the instrument display. By obtaining various data such as vehicle speed, engine speed, oil temperature and fuel volume, the car instrument has become the look of IOS system.
▲ Carplay instrument
At the same time, the instrument can also be customized by the user. Like the apple watch dashboard, the driver can choose the instrument display mode that the driver likes, which can be traditional pointer type or modern simple style. The background and layout of the dashboard can also be customized by the user.
▲ Carplay supports different screens
The second big change of the new Carplay is that it can control hardware devices such as air conditioners and seats. Thanks to the in-depth cooperation between apple and car companies, as well as the upgrading of the electronic and electrical architecture of cars, users can directly control the temperature and air volume of air conditioners, seat ventilation and heating on the homepage of Carplay, and the radio can also be turned on directly from Carplay.
▲ Carplay controls seats and air conditioners
The third big change of Carplay is the addition of small components in IOS system. The common weather, navigation, calendar, weather, world clock, smart home and other components in the IOS system can be displayed on the vehicle screen. The driver can also add these components to the instrument for easy viewing. When the phone rings while driving, it can also be directly displayed on the instrument. This means that the driver can see the core information of Carplay and even the mobile phone by tilting his line of sight slightly, without clicking on the central control screen.
▲ Carplay widget
In addition, Carplay has also added a split screen display, which is similar to [ipad] at the bottom of the main screen( https://apple.pvxt.net/c/1251234/435400/7639?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com%2Fcn%2Fipad%2F ) Dock bar on the.
▲ brand supporting the new Carplay
However, this system may not appear this year. Apple plans to get on the bus at the end of next year. At that time, the new Carplay is likely to be a mobile phone mapping system based on IOS 17. At the press conference, Apple announced that Land Rover, Mercedes Benz, Porsche, Nissan, Ford, etc. are the first car companies to use the new Carplay, but there are no Chinese brands yet.
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Supporting more than 600 cars, Apple has greater ambition
In 2014, apple officially launched Carplay at the Geneva auto show. At that time, there were few models supported, only three brands including Mercedes Benz, Ferrari and Volvo. Later, it expanded to BMW, Ford, general motors, Hyundai, Toyota and other major overseas brands.
▲ first generation apple Carplay
Today, there are more than 600 models supporting apple Carplay, covering a large number of joint venture imported brand models, and many self owned brand models also support Carplay. It can even be said that Carplay has already become the standard configuration of imported cars jointly invested by traditional car companies, and has made up for its lack of intelligence and ecological acclimatization.
▲ Carplay supports more than 600 cars
However, from the press conferences in recent years, Apple has greater ambitions in the automotive field.
On WWDC in 2020, Apple launched the car key function. After pairing with a car key supporting vehicle, the door can be opened by gently touching the mobile phone and the door handle (NFC pairing). Put the mobile phone on the wireless charging board in the car, and the car can start. This feature has been mass produced on many BMW models.
▲ Apple car key function
Since the iPhone 11, Apple has added U1 ultra wideband chip to the iPhone, which can also be used to unlock the door. Compared with the NFC unlocking method, users do not even have to take out their mobile phones. This feature has been mass produced on BMW IX.
At the same time, in recent years, there have been constant rumors about Apple building cars. What kind of cars Apple wants to build and whether it can change the automotive industry are also the core concerns of the industry.
Therefore, the new Carplay launched by apple, to a certain extent, shows Apple's vision of travel scenarios in the next few years, and also shows Apple's real definition of intelligent cockpit system.
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Conclusion: Apple accelerates the layout of smart cars
Intelligence has already become a general trend in the automotive industry. However, each automotive enterprise has different definitions of intelligence and does not have rich R & D experience. Therefore, it has made mixed products. Even some products have only an intelligent appearance, while the experience is non intelligent.
Therefore, apple, Huawei, Baidu and Google are all laying out mobile phone mapping systems, making use of the computing power of mobile phones and the understanding of technology Internet manufacturers on software and user experience to make the mobile phone system more like a mobile phone.
In the past 7 or 8 years, the mobile phone mapping system represented by Apple Carplay has laid a solid foundation. Today, with the outbreak of automotive intelligence, apple is once again at the forefront of the industry, accelerating the layout of smart cars.