rominl

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sometimes i am really puzzled why toyota is so slow is adapting to new technology. took them years to have apple integration and they lost big to competitors, and same here again with car play.

more than a decade ago lexus was way ahead on technology with their navigation and audio systems. but now they are behind. they need to work very hard to not just catch up but be in the front again

lexnewbi

bitkahuna

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Sulu

A decade ago, Toyota was working with its own technology so it knew exactly what is in it and what it can do.

But now, with Auto and CarPlay, Toyota is being asked to use someone else's technology. Any good technology company will be careful and will do it due diligence before implementing someone else's technology.

venom21

Its just that almost every other good technology company put in the due diligence before Toyota and implemented well before them.

Allen K

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Toyota is not a tech company. Their current product line makes that painfully clear

coolsaber

Hey hey hey now, our motto is "we dont mess around with reliability" is the company line. Inside tho, im sure they were probably thought, if our vehicles are class leading in sales without Carplay damn why even fix something not broken....More money less work

ExTrEmE99

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Simple port would be correct, but lets hope they dont follow BMW (and i think Mercedes) who is charging to enable Carplay....

spwolf

usually apple requires some proprietary hardware, so it is not so simple

rominl

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i don't buy it. so many companies out there working on solution for years already and there are a lot of solid players out there.

toyota is just slow, simple as that. all we need to look at is the ipod integration, took them years to implement and years later they are still now behind competitors. the ipod / iphone in my lexus crashes every now and then and the system doesn't even display other characters

bitkahuna

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i'd say insular, cautious, and more vertically integrated than other companies... basically they do their own thing. this can be good and it can be bad. but because EVERYTHING's moving to the cloud and car companies have no idea what they're doing in the cloud, they must partner with someone, or perish. toyota's partnering sort of with amazon, which is risky because amazon doesn't make phones (yet).

coolsaber

I agree, however i think its one of those rare moments where, Toyota did not have a respectable answer to in car infotainment. Till this day Toyota is scratching their head on how to reinvent the modern navi system. They have basically the most fragmented ecosystem outhere, where some units are touchscreen, some units are remote touchpad, some are remote mouse systems under the same emblem. Toyota alsos been purchasing into agreements with the random tech. Ford recently comes to mind. They seem to be running around almost towards the opposite end of the popular system department under the guise that their engineers had a better plan or agreement and finally realized, meh, why invest in nothing and join the boat. Thankfully toyota hasnt suffered in the sale department so their running around has not cost them marketshare, cause at the end of the day, infotainment although important, is just one part of things to look for when buying a vehicle.

stevenRX17

Just read on Macrumors that Lexus said they will not offer Apple CarPlay on pre2019 models - can anyone verify?!

Hoovey689

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Lexus does not add technology to older cars. So 2019-future Lexus will have CarPlay.

rominl

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yes i agree. it worked in their favor in the 90s, but start 2000s it's been working against them