Thread: CarPlay rant
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Old 12-16-2019, 05:55 PM   #14
robg
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Originally Posted by JST View Post
Counterpoint:



-The iDrive system works well for a very few specific functions, where you don't have to look at the screen at all.



-It is worse for every other function, and requires far more attention than a large touch screen does.



I agree on CarPlay, though. I generally don't like it; the one and only situation where I do is in rental cars, where it's better than trying to figure out the native OS in 30 seconds before I have to start driving.


Hmm- trying to think of places where idrive is worse than a touch screen. The only things I can think of are manually entering destinations in the nav (Which I rarely had to do since the voice recognition was excellent in idrive 6) or using Apple carplay (Which my old car didn’t have but even if it did I wouldn’t have bothered with it). For which functionality do you find it less convenient than a touch screen ?


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