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Apple’s best software system is spinning its wheels
There was a brief shining moment where it seemed like Apple might really have cracked the automotive industry—and it wasn’t necessarily for the reasons you might think. Yes, the company tried hard for years to build its own car in a variety of ways, everything from designing the underlying automotive systems to building the whole thing from the ground up.
But it wasn’t Apple’s own ambitious car project—now by all accounts dead and buried—that saw it make inroads into the automobile sector; it was the relatively more modest addition of CarPlay.
The question of where CarPlay is heading has become increasingly murky in the wake of Apple’s car project’s demise. The comapny has announced a next-generation push for that can use all of a car’s displays, with an interface tailored to each specific maker, but it’s been slow to garner adoption amongst its partners.
So, as CarPlay embarks upon its second decade, what might its future hold? Well, before you head forward, it always helps to know where you’ve been.