Recent content by therealcmj

Well, one could say that Rivian should have a public API, use OAuth for security, and offer the ability to scope the issued token down to a limited set of permission.

Are you by chance using Home Assistant and the Rivian integration or the Rivolt thing? I'm using the former and am pretty sure Rivian is either detecting it and blocking the account, or those sorts of tools polling is causing me to exceed the allowed rate limits. When I have it happen I have...

I agreed with you up to this point. But I think that this is a terrible idea. How many of those app developers will create an app just for Rivian? And among those that do how much investment will it get compared to the mainline phone app? My bet is near zero and zero respectively.

Apple Maps is just one an application on your iPhone. You can use any nav app you like for navigation - Google Maps, Waze, ABRP, or a bunch of others. On a Rivian you have any map service you like. As long as you like Rivian's. If you don't then too bad - you have to put your phone in a holder...

They don't have to think of EVPlay as a competitor. Their lawyers could simply decide there's a liability thing and tell their developers to figure out a way to detect it. How they go about doing that is obviously an open question - the EVPlay guy reverse engineered what the pins do but I don't...

He knows. He's lying. Because the company wants that to be the message. The Decoder interviewer did a piss poor job calling it out. But that was probably part of the ground rules of getting the interview in the first place.

The Apple or Android ecosystem benefit is even bigger than just the 20 years. Apple made the iPhone + iOS + CarPlay, but then there's an innumerable number (millions?) of developers building iOS apps, and adding CarPlay support to their apps is "simple" (in the grand scheme of things). What's...

I considered EVSportline's, EVPlay's, and a couple of other products. EVSportLine is another display sitting on top of the existing screen; frankly it makes the car look like you're sitting at mission control and in an accident is a dangerous glass projectile. EVPlay is a clever solution that...

It demonstrably doesn’t. It has the most common music services but that’s only a fractionof the services actually available in the US. It has one audio book service, which happens to not be the one I use. It has no podcast app, and even if it did it wouldn’t sync status with the one I normally...

No. They're not. There are things you can do with Carplay that you will literally never be able to do with a car's built in infotainment. And 1,000s of “apps” that will never be available on the Rivian infotainment. And even if Rivian’s ai assistant were absolutely perfect and the market...

Remember: execs don’t always know the reality. And even when they know reality they won’t always tell the truth - about the situation or what they really think. Part of any exec’s job is presenting the company’s position. And these interviews are carefully managed to do exactly that. I’m...

Or talk about it. So that other people thinking about getting a Rivian know that this is a thing they need to think about. And that previous people in their shoes, who thought they could live without it, discovered that it actually is really important.

Rivian does not allow anyone to write apps for the car. They base their system on Android Automotive but it is more restrictive than Android Automotive. And if they ever do allow others to write apps for their infotainment system then you will absolutely have to use Rivian's toolchain and SDK...

Why would it? Despite what people from Rivian keep saying (lying) CarPlay doesn't require a complete takeover of all or even one screen. And once they have actual full point to point automated driving if you have to use the main car control to choose the destination and enable navigation that...

My previous car had CarPlay. My R1 doesn’t. And my next car will absolutely have CarPlay. Because having gone from having it to not having it showed me how important it is.