Apple banned Volkswagen from presenting wireless CarPlay at CES 2016

During this week, another year of CES was held in Las Vegas, where large and small electronics manufacturers presented products of various kinds, whether it was televisions, tablets, accessories for Apple devices, products from the IT world or even for cars. An example of this is, for example, the new on-board computers from PioneEU with support CarPlay, to which you can connect your phone with a cable and use various functions iOS safely while driving, whether it is Siri, telephone calls, Maps or Apple Music. Your own news in the area CarPlay then he also wanted to introduce Volkswagen, but he couldn't. Why?

Simply because he Apple forbade At the same time, it was an interesting gadget in the form of wireless CarPlay of the system, which is the function due to which Apple already tested a year ago iOS 8.3 (and brought in iOS 9), but not much has happened since the release of this system and no one has yet shown how wireless it is CarPlay it works. “We wanted to demonstrate wireless CarPlay, but the technology owner wouldn't let us do it," Volkmar Tannerberger, head of Volkswagen's electronics division, told the magazine Car and Driveyear However, VW did not give a reason why Apple he didn't want the manufacturers to show the new generation CarPlay. From this it can be concluded that the technology is not yet complete, or that he wants to have its "ceremonial" unveiling under the baton himself Apple at the time of some car show.

Volkswagen had to instead of wireless CarPlay- to demonstrate to the participants another project that allows you to connect a smartphone to the infotainment system in the car, thereby mirroring the functions and controls directly on its touch screen. It uses the open-source MirrorLink standard, which unfortunately is not available on iPhone and so the technology that VW presented will only be available for Android users. However, VW has hinted that it can envision the feature working wirelessly as well, including wireless charging, which is currently only available on select Android phones.

*Source: MacRumors; Car and Driver