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0 pointsneuralRiot2y ago0 comments

> All we need is a place in the dashboard to mount our phones. Phones already have big-ass touchscreens and anything else we want...

That might be your personal prefernece, I particularly abhor the phone-centric world not to mention that a 5 inch “big-ass” touch screen becomes tiny when driving and that its UI is meant to be operated sitting down paying 100% attention to it not while operating a machine at 60mph down in the road surrounded by hundreds of people in the same situation.

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ShadowBanThis012y ago

I can respect that. To some extent, though, that's down to the phone UI. iOS, ummm, 6 if I remember correctly was supposed to be more "car-friendly." Of course, that was another Jony Ive failure... it actually changed the system font to a spindly outline that was hard enough to see in normal conditions, let alone in a car. There was absolutely nothing in that OS that offered a "car-friendlier" experience. I was so glad to see that pompous hack leave Apple.

If you look at CarPlay, it chunks the functionality down to a few big icons on the screen at a time. No reason that can't be done on the phone itself in a "car mode."

Anyway, this is what I ended up doing: https://imgur.com/gallery/krRXQwP

fzzzy2y ago

That was 7, 6 was the last 'good' one.

ShadowBanThis012y ago

Ah, thanks.

Too many regressive releases to keep track of...

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ShadowBanThis012y ago

If you look at CarPlay, it chunks the functionality down to a few big icons on the screen at a time. No reason that can't be done on the phone itself in a "car mode."

Anyway, this is what I ended up doing: https://imgur.com/gallery/krRXQwP

fzzzy2y ago

That was 7, 6 was the last 'good' one.

ShadowBanThis012y ago

Ah, thanks.

Too many regressive releases to keep track of...

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse