Thread: CES 2009 - Car Computers are Dead. Long Live Car Computing. -by Bugbyte

pretty much on the nose.

Alpine almost got it right with the iXA-W404.
But if you can't use the apps -- what's the use. However, the calculator app looks like it means more than it does now.


I also noticed the (errr, it was just posted all over this place) new iphone breakout set. Nice ... but still lacks in so many ways.

As much as I love my iphone ... I wonder if mp3.com just shouldn't get together with a cell phone maker and ;-) ;-) ;-) make the system that would solve the Apple problem.

So, I'd start with a droid phone, get google backing, and then partner with lilliput or some other Chinese/Korea manufacturer that would build the Alpine like head unit that would hold the 7" monitor and inner amps and pc like dock to power the rest of stereo components.

But then again ... most people here would probably rather hack it together. mp3car seems more likely to follow up on my idea (or probably has been waiting for the momentum to start off ) and of course they'd want to build off the community's input and ideas.

FINALLY, some forward thinking!!!!

That would be the BEST thing to do around here period. It would give everybody a properly designed & fully working unit in their cars before the 31st century, at least at the rate it is going now lol. Would give afford ability. As well as it would give everyone here a chance and opportunity to really contribute to (hopefully open source) and STAYS open source) not like roadrunner) the development of a enterprise class system & add all the finer points that everyone wants in a system! Google is already open sourced in the mobile world, I would think if everyone here played it right they WOULD jump at another opportunity to blow MS & Apple away with the next frontier of undeveloped mobile PC & media (music, movies, messaging, gps, mapping, etc..) market share!

Oh, and all us uber geeks that just have to hack or we shrivel up and die, would NOT be left out by a move like this! It would SOO broaden our horizons, as the platform development by major companies to manufacture parts & accessories, would be such high class, and more companies would develop more equipment for these PC boxes on a mass scale, that afford ability, and variety would make it sky's the limit of imagination! For the GEEKS like us, that only means there will be MORE stuff to chose from to turbo charge our systems WAY above any standardized system that could ever be come up with (as long as open source mind you)!

Power to the ones that can make this happen!

later
Gem