Mercedes CEO Ola Källenius said in a Decoder interview that he won’t allow Apple’s more immersive, next-generation CarPlay to take over all the screens in his cars.
Mercedes-Benz doesn’t have any plans to adopt Apple’s immersive, next-generation version of CarPlay, the German automaker’s CEO said in an episode of Decoder. “The short answer is no,” Ola Källenius told The Verge’s Nilay Patel in response to a question about whether Mercedes-Benz will enable Apple CarPlay to take over all the screens inside its vehicles.
Instead, Källenius said that the company is working closely with Apple’s main rival, Google, in designing a new navigation feature that will build on Google Maps. The key difference there is that Mercedes’ own engineering team will be heavily involved in the process. “I fundamentally believe that that holistic customer experience is best done by us, and we will serve you,” he said during the interview.
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