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Ferrari Is Removing Built-In Navigation in Favor of Smartphone Navigation
Like the CD-ROMs of navi systems from years past, in-car maps are clunky, unintuitive, and hardly used.
Phones have made such mapping systems basically obsolete, and Ferrari’s head of product marketing, Emanuele Carando, admitted as much. Google Android Auto and Apple CarPlay have only been around for a decade, but their ease of use and seamless integration make them the preferred in-car operating system. “So, like, get real with it, because you’re not going to make a ton of money on content inside the vehicle.” Android Auto and Apple CarPlay aren’t just reserved for new cars either because older models are being started to be offered factory retrofits like Honda is doing with the 2018-2022 Accord.
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