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Post by chinacat on May 29, 2021 10:01:00 GMT -8
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Post by chinacat on May 30, 2021 10:40:28 GMT -8
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Post by chinacat on May 31, 2021 10:13:08 GMT -8
Fabulous Spouse and I are heading into the CambridgeSide store tomorrow in pursuit of an M1 iMac. Should be quite a leap from our current 2016 model.
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Post by hledgard on May 31, 2021 18:52:50 GMT -8
Thanks for keeping the site alive Chinacat ! It helps us all ! !
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Post by 4aapl on Jun 1, 2021 6:45:30 GMT -8
That makes sense. I see cars once in a while with a bluetooth speaker on their dash, and didn't put it together that it might be the easiest way to play music from your phone. In the used truck that I just bought, one of the couple reasons to up to the trim package I got was to have Apple CarPlay. In driving it back across the country, we mostly only used CarPlay. The exception was using the built-in navigation when we were in a place that didn't have cell service, but that would be negated if we had pre-downloaded the maps. It worked well. It auto connected if using a cable, but I think that cable was glitchy so it cut out sometimes. Instead, using bluetooth, it worked well. The only downside was that might have been why there was about a 1.5 second delay when skipping songs, which interestingly happened both with the steering wheel controls but apparently also when pushing next on the iPhone itself. Due to that I'm thinking it was the bluetooth and CarPlay communication. Fun stuff. The other difference was the safety controls, where the built-in nav needed us to be stopped to let us put in an address, whereas the iPhone would let me son put in the info while we drove. Occasionally that caused problems, like coming into Elko while he slept, where the built-in was bringing me to the center of town, and the iPhone was bringing me to the actual hotel, but I didn't know that at the time. U-turns ensued. The other thing is having the latest and greatest on the iPhone. Whether that is the latest speed limits (built-in was sometimes wrong/old) or info on a road closed for construction (at least one of them was wrong, but we might have just been using built-in at the time), it's nice to current or mostly current info.
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