Apart from the engine, wheels, seats, and enormous difference in size, 2015 Chevys will be nearly indistinguishable from smartphones: General Motors is announcing at CES today that next model year's lineup with be available with built-in LTE and an app store. The so-called Chevrolet AppShop is the end result of GM's news at CES a year ago when it first offered an app SDK to developers; LTE, meanwhile, has been in the works since an announcement in February of last year.
AppShop looks and feels like a rudimentary iOS App Store or Google Play, presenting a list of available apps that's called up by tapping an icon on the car's touchscreen. Downloaded apps can be updated automatically, rearranged on the home screen, and deleted at will. At...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/5/5276536/cars-are-the-new-smartphones-chevrolet-adding-lte-and-app-store-to-2015-models
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