Source: Wall Street
According to the media, Apple IncThe new project may allow iPhone users to adjust the temperature, ventilation and heat exhaust, sound and seats, and check the fuel level of the car through the in-car system CarPlay. Even if he does not sell the car, Apple Inc may make the car a profit-making tool.
Apple Inc's in-car system CarPlay has been around for seven years, and now most car owners just use it to listen to music and answer the phone. Now, Apple Inc may plan to make it a butler for car owners to use iPhone to control a variety of functions in the car.
On Thursday, Oct. 7, US Eastern time, the media quoted insiders as saying that Apple Inc has launched a secrecy project called IronHeart, which is still in its infancy and requires automakers to cooperate with the launch of a variety of new "skills" of CarPlay, so that iPhone users may directly master controllers, sensors and car settings through CarPlay.
Specifically, iPhone users will probably use CarPlay to read the temperature and humidity inside and outside the car, manage the temperature control zone of the car's air conditioner, exhaust fan, defrosting system, adjust the car's surround sound, equalizer, horn, ultra-bass, volume intensity and sound channel balance, adjust seats and seat armrests, and check the speedometer, tachometer, and fuel meter.
According to media comments, Apple Inc launched CarPlay in 2014, and now most cars of major manufacturers support this system, which mainly provides in-car entertainment letters.Information function, and the IronHeart project emphasizes Apple Inc's idea that even if he does not sell the car, Apple Inc may make the car a profit-making tool for the company.
There are also comments that, for Apple Inc, the IronHeart project may provide some ideas to help Apple Inc build his own self-driving car. However, judging from the current news, Apple Inc does not intend to collect user and vehicle data through CarPlay.
A spokesman for Apple Inc declined to comment on the news. And stock market investors seem to have welcomed it. On Thursday, Apple Inc's shares opened as high as the market, rising more than 1 per cent in early trading and nearly 1.6 per cent near midday highs on the news of the CarPlay.
