Applications for Cars

I find that it is really amazing to have smart phones in our daily lives because they give comfort and the ability to be connected. The idea about putting a smart phone into a car is also really awesome because it is also giving huge comforts to user driving and using a built in smart phone. Ford and GM announced about this new technology containing the programs SDKs and APIs. These two systems are really different because the Ford style is to let the user bring their own smartphone and connect it to the car itself. GM actually set up a built in smart phone in the car to ensure that people would actually use it because some people today still don't have smart phones. I think that bringing your own smart phone and connect it with your car is way better because you don't need to transfer the informations all the time after you have downloaded something new. Ford also stated that people change their smartphones more times than they change a car so connecting the smart phone would be more beneficial. The next huge thing is the app developers because they need to create new apps the will suit the car, which is basically apps that requires sound control from the user like Siri in which today we don't have a well developed app that can understand humans better. 

Major Concepts

• Ford and GM are developing a type of smart phone in the car for peoples comfort. It involves programs such as SDKs and APIs.
• Ford and GM have different ideas, Ford wants people to bring in their own smart phones to connect, but GM will have their own smart phone like built in to the car.
• Applications for cars are still underdevelopment due to this new idea of technology. 

Potential Strengths/Advantages

This author had quite a few advantages in which his arguments had examples telling which car industries are developing this system and whats the program name called, which I think is really useful because readers are able to know more about it and do their own search on SDK's and API's. Another advantage is that the difference of Ford's and GM's ideas about building it in our bringing your own smart phone, the author gave both the "goods and bads" about bringing your own smart phone or having it built into the car.

Potential Problems/Limitations/Disadvantages

This author had two negative side or disadvantages because he did not at all describe about what kind of apps is going to appear in this technology which means that he didn't research about what apps will be really useful during driving and I really would like to know about that. In this text there are too less facts that he brought up so maybe it could just be a rumor or a made up story because I only saw 2-4 facts about this technology.

Discussion Questions

I would like to know when will they actually release this technology and I find it really interesting to actually have a smart phone that is able to talk to you in the car and you are able to drive without looking at the screen. I think that this technology will reduce the number of accidents that happens during driving because people might pick up their phones and crash but here you just connect it to the car and it will tell u everything about who is calling. I also would discuss that if they really finish developing it will be efficient?

Lardinios, Frederic. "Cars Are The Next Playground For App Developers." TechCrunch RSS. N.p., 13 Jan. 2013. Web. 15 Jan. 2013.