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June 4, 2018 10:20 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YRDAdmPRODY/apple-carplay-will-now-support-third-party-navigation-and-mapping-apps
Apple CarPlay Will Now Support Third-Party Navigation and Mapping Apps
Apple today announced that it will now let third-party navigation and mapping apps work with CarPlay starting with iOS 12. "Up to now, Apple only allowed its own mapping app, Maps, to work over CarPlay, but now you can use Waze, Google Maps, Here, or whatever other app you might want to use to get from A to B," reports TechCrunch. From the report: The change marks a big shift for Apple, which is well known for favoring its own native apps and generally a more tightly controlled ecosystem on iOS and across devices. But Maps hasn't been the most popular mapping app by some measure, even for users of iOS. This is in a sense is a tacit acknowledgement that iPhone owners are using a wide variety of other services, and so to get CarPlay used more, this needed to be enabled. It's not clear why Apple didn't extend third-party support for other mapping and navigation apps until now. Perhaps it was to sweeten the deal for more people to use its own Maps app.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YRDAdmPRODY/apple-carplay-will-now-support-third-party-navigation-and-mapping-apps
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