I'm not proud of it by any stretch but I do shop Amazon. There's a lot to say about that but the bottom line for me is that I simply don't have time to do anything else.
I've tried units from Amazon, Best Buy, and now, a fourth, CPLAY2Air.
Ottocast is one of the ones that died. It's actually the first one I bought because it is highly rated.
This isn't about playing music. This is mainly about CarPlay for navigation, dealing with text messages, etc. I am extremely reluctant to replace the head unit: First, it would be expensive--a problem with what these gig companies pay. Second, I would lose some of the interface to the car itself.
This isn't about playing music. This is mainly about CarPlay for navigation, dealing with text messages, etc. I am extremely reluctant to replace the head unit: First, it would be expensive--a problem with what these gig companies pay. Second, I would lose some of the interface to the car itself.
I have the misfortune of being stuck doing DoorDash. It means I'm constantly plugging in and unplugging my phone from my car, at least once at the beginning and and again at the end of each and every delivery. Even with USB-C (it's an iPhone 15 Pro Max), that makes me nervous. It's also inefficient, having to fumble with the cord and the plug and the phone each and every time. And of course it's a problem when it's pouring down rain and the USB outlet gets wet.
So I've been trying bluetooth adapters for my 2021 Toyota RAV4 XLE Premium Hybrid. I've gone through three of them, now. They each worked great for the first day or so, then died. A message appears on the screen that the device could not be started in "advanced mode" and "normal mode" means the device doesn't work.
The dealer informs me that the head units which support CarPlay over bluetooth are only available in model years 2023 and newer and cannot be retrofitted to a 2021.
I'm not even seeing the problem acknowledge in a web search. But for me, it's consistent.
Does anyone know a solution?
You'll want a bucket and probably a mop.
When I first moved back east I was reveling in a thunderstorm, left the window open to hear the rain and the thunder. Did that a few times actually.
But yours is bigger.
No, this is a 14. I never heard of "3D Touch" but it sounds like it would be completely unusable for me.
Clearly, you haven't played with an Android lately. As @OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world pointed out, everybody's imitating Apple.
The pinch to zoom and scrolling features generally work fine. I did explore the accessibility features and found nothing that addresses my need for easy predictability.
The reason I like the buttons is because I know what they do. And they do it every time.
The reason I hate the gestures is that I'll think I'm doing one thing and get something completely different, often when I needed it to do the right thing five seconds ago.
Like when I swipe from right to left. An app can have it's own meaning for this gesture. The phone itself, two more, one to switch home screens, one to pull up the camera. I'll be trying to use the app's meaning and get the camera. This is not improving my efficiency.
Why on God's green earth can I not have an #iPhone interface that works?
To say that Apple's "gestures" suck is entirely too kind. They are a fundamentally broken idea anyway, but that gestures have regions and therefore that a gesture may mean any of three different things, makes my phone desperate--and I do mean desperate--to do anything other than what I'm telling it to do.
If Elon Musk was worried that rail service between San Francisco and Los Angeles might diminish the demand for Teslas, then I think we have a more serious problem with delusion than I thought.
It is weird that Elon Musk was so worried about California's high-speed rail project because it had the look of a boondoggle from the beginning. It's horrendously expensive and the promise of an alternative to air travel has been diminished as they've decided to use more existing rail (you can't run high speed on it) to save money.
benfell @lemmy.world First started watching #StarTrek re-runs in the late 1960s. Ph.D. Human Science (Saybrook University, 2016), #vegan, #anticapitalist, libertarian socialist, vegetarian ecofeminist scholar and non-magical thinker