Apple iPad, iPhone, iOS Maps Revised, Can They Get You to Your Destination This Time?
Apple wants to expand people's iPhone experience from just being handheld to that being integrated right into a car's systems. Essentially, Apple wants car owners and passengers to experience and depend on its Apple Maps and Siri to get them to their destination.
But just how reliable really is Apple Maps when in fact it led tourists to Australia on the verge of their death to a wilderness area and under the scorching heat of 46 degrees on December 2012? In fact, Apple was forced to release the much reliable and dependable Google Maps app for its Apple iPhone products because consumers just can't depend on the defective iPhone iOS 6 mapping system.
But Apple has been working to refine its' yet to be launched iOS 7 system. However, it seemed confident enough to plan to integrate it into a car's system.
But experts from both the mobile phone and automobile industry surmise Apple's grandiose plans won't work, unless it gets into right smack the car manufacturing business.
For one, Apple has a self-mandate to push into the display box products that are already five years old and above, just as the case of the original iPhone which is bound to get obsolete or vintage effective June 11, 2013. All because of a constant changing technology. Be it the case, most owners don't part with their cars for at least ten years or so.
Depending on Siri while driving is like already planning your death. Regardless whether its texting with fingers or voice texting, Siri is not good at all, according to a study by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University.
"In each case, drivers took about twice as long to react as they did when they weren't texting," Christine Yager, study head, told Reuters. "Eye contact to the roadway also decreased, no matter which texting method was used." The Texas Transportation Institute was the first to compare voice-to-text and traditional texting on a handheld device in an actual driving environment.
Regardless of using your fingers or voice, "you're still using your mind to try to think of what you're trying to say, and that by proxy causes some driving impairment, and that decreases your response time," Ms Yager said.
Apple Maps already has a bad reputation. Just how sure are car owners and passengers it won't direct them to the end of the world?
There are a lot of car manufacturers around the world. Just which ones of their models will work with Apple's iOS 7 system?
According to www.autorevolution.com, Apple is already working with BMW as well as Toyota, Audi, Honda and Land Rover to create the 'Eyes-Free' service for Siri.