Apple promised next-gen CarPlay in 2024, so the place is it?

We nonetheless haven’t seen the “subsequent technology of CarPlay” that Apple first introduced in 2022 and continues to say on its CarPlay webpage is arriving in 2024, as MacRumors factors out. And barring some spectacular shock, it’s not coming at present or tomorrow. What provides?

To date, we’ve solely seen modifications like CarPlay mapping instructions showing within the instrument cluster in vehicles from producers like Polestar, Porsche, and Lincoln. That’s even the case for autos just like the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus, which has the display screen actual property to assist Apple’s imaginative and prescient for its dashboard-spanning infotainment software program. Porsche and Aston Martin had introduced their vehicles could be the primary to get the brand new CarPlay, however each lately declined to provide Wired a timeline for its rollout.

Exterior of Apple’s preliminary pronouncement that so many vehicles would use its large CarPlay replace, automakers like Basic Motors and Rivian have taken a stand towards each it and Google’s Android Auto. That’s not a preferred place, notably for GM, however each have indicated it’s about having extra management over their autos.

Regardless of the lukewarm reception of Apple’s concepts, the corporate has continued to speak about its plans for the software program. It’s simply not clear what vehicles, if any, it would ever present up in.