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BMW may drop iDrive starting w/ next 7-series???
Interesting, but I dont think they will drop it. I think they will greatly improve on it though. I'm sure the guys at Apple can come up with something absolutely stellar!!
http://www.autospies.com/news/WORLD-...-Series-24513/
Last February, we scooped the world saying that BMW would be the first company to be iPhone compatible in their vehicles.
Now the Spies have uncovered an exclusive scoop on the future fate of the much maligned BMW iDrive system.
The IDEA of iDrive was good, but it was the miserable software interface that doomed the system to a getting a barb in virtually every review EVER written, on any BMW that had it.
If the controller and the software interface was as easy to use as let's say and iPod, people would have loved it, right?
Hmmm, that's an idea...How about an iPod-like scroll wheel on the steering wheel that controls a much more elegant user interface?
Wouldn't that be the schizzle?
Well, internal sources tell us that is just what BMW will introduce on a future BMW, maybe as soon as the next 7-Series.
It would make sense since we know they have been working with Apple Computer at the highest levels…yes, with Steve.
Once BMW launches it, the rest of the auto world will follow.
Is this type of controller/interface the future of all driver interaction in autos?
Do you think this is best way to implement a system like this?
Now the Spies have uncovered an exclusive scoop on the future fate of the much maligned BMW iDrive system.
The IDEA of iDrive was good, but it was the miserable software interface that doomed the system to a getting a barb in virtually every review EVER written, on any BMW that had it.
If the controller and the software interface was as easy to use as let's say and iPod, people would have loved it, right?
Hmmm, that's an idea...How about an iPod-like scroll wheel on the steering wheel that controls a much more elegant user interface?
Wouldn't that be the schizzle?
Well, internal sources tell us that is just what BMW will introduce on a future BMW, maybe as soon as the next 7-Series.
It would make sense since we know they have been working with Apple Computer at the highest levels…yes, with Steve.
Once BMW launches it, the rest of the auto world will follow.
Is this type of controller/interface the future of all driver interaction in autos?
Do you think this is best way to implement a system like this?
http://www.autospies.com/news/WORLD-...-Series-24513/
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Anything is better than the current 7....
Hopefully they continue to evolve the shape but BMW has lost all its BMW and German proportions.
With BMW looking more and more Korean/Pontiac in design and with other carmakers copying BMW styling cues, give me a time portal and an E30...
Hopefully they continue to evolve the shape but BMW has lost all its BMW and German proportions.
With BMW looking more and more Korean/Pontiac in design and with other carmakers copying BMW styling cues, give me a time portal and an E30...