subject: Ford to Offer In-Vehicle Voice Control of Select iPhone Apps [print this page] Ford to Offer In-Vehicle Voice Control of Select iPhone Apps
didn't think there was anything new in this announcement, but I could be wrong. Ford was at Mobile Monday Detroit a few months ago and showed off a couple vehicles with the new stuff, a 2011 Edge with MyFordTouch (touch screen in center console and small video displays in the dash operated by D-pads on the steering wheel) and a 2011 Fiesta with MyFordTouch and AppLink. The Fiesta was running the Pandora app from some kind of mobile device (don't remember if it was an iPhone or a Zune or something else). The Fiesta will be the first with AppLink, although other 2011 models with MyFordTouch may be firmware upgradeable later.
You can get on the waiting list for the SDK here: https://secure.syncmyride.com/Own/Mo...Subscribe.aspx. The developers said that conceptually, AppLink works like an X Window Server: the client app on the device issues commands to MyFordTouch, telling it what to draw on the display or on the dash. It runs over Bluetooth for most devices, but uses the dock cable for iOS (they didn't say why, but I've heard that Apple's External Accessosry / Works With iPhone program is grievously restrictive, so maybe that has something to do with it).didn't think there was anything new in this announcement, but I could be wrong. Ford was at Mobile Monday Detroit a few months ago and showed off a couple vehicles with the new stuff, a 2011 Edge with MyFordTouch (touch screen in center console and small video displays in the dash operated by D-pads on the steering wheel) and a 2011 Fiesta with MyFordTouch and AppLink. The Fiesta was running the Pandora app from some kind of mobile device (don't remember if it was an iPhone or a Zune or something else). The Fiesta will be the first with AppLink, although other 2011 models with MyFordTouch may be firmware upgradeable later.
You can get on the waiting list for the SDK here:didn't think there was anything new in this announcement, but I could be wrong. Ford was at Mobile Monday Detroit a few months ago and showed off a couple vehicles with the new stuff, a 2011 Edge with MyFordTouch (touch screen in center console and small video displays in the dash operated by D-pads on the steering wheel) and a 2011 Fiesta with MyFordTouch and AppLink. The Fiesta was running the Pandora app from some kind of mobile device (don't remember if it was an iPhone or a Zune or something else). The Fiesta will be the first with AppLink, although other 2011 models with MyFordTouch may be firmware upgradeable later.
You can get on the waiting list for the SDK here: https://secure.syncmyride.com/Own/Mo...Subscribe.aspx. The developers said that conceptually, AppLink works like an X Window Server: the client app on the device issues commands to MyFordTouch, telling it what to draw on the display or on the dash. It runs over Bluetooth for most devices, but uses the dock cable for iOS (they didn't say why, but I've heard that Apple's External Accessosry / Works With iPhone program is grievously restrictive, so maybe that has something to do with it). https://secure.syncmyride.com/Own/Mo...Subscribe.aspx. The developers said that conceptually, AppLink works like an X Window Server: the client app on the device issues commands to MyFordTouch, telling it what to draw on the display or on the dash. It runs over Bluetooth for most devices, but uses the dock cable for iOS (they didn't say why, but I've heard that Apple's External Accessosry / Works With iPhone program is grievously restrictive, so maybe that has something to do with it).
