Comments on: Oh Lord, Won’t You Buy Me An Apple Powered Mercedes Benz

By: Microsoft’s Car Product In The Wild — Parking Domains

Microsoft’s Car Product In The Wild — Parking Domains — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 04:04:39 +0000

[...] features such as iPod docks and GPS units, tech companies wanted a slice of the car market. Apple signed a deal with Mercedes Benz and closer to home Ford started offering cars the included onboard features that were [...]

By: Loud&Clear

Loud&Clear — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:25:35 +0000

[...] a German magazine they wonder if Apple will use Google Maps as the navigation maps? While in TechCrunch, Duncan Riley, thinks there’s a free marketplace for Apple as long as Microsoft are busy with [...]

By: Charlie Rockwave

Charlie Rockwave — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:37:19 +0000

I would say that this is pretty HUGE.

This is quite an additional brand builder for an amazing brand.

I will be watching how this one plays out.

Charlie

By: Thinking Outloud

Thinking Outloud — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:17:38 +0000

A Mac powered Mercedes…

Now that is what I call high end. As reported in TechCrunch, Mercedes has a 6 month exclusive right to use an Apple designed communication and navigation system to start in 2009.
While you can pretty much expect an iPod port, what would be really cool…

By: document.write("Markus Tressl");

document.write("Markus Tressl"); — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:55:27 +0000

MacBenz / iBenz — Apple Navigationssystem für Mercedes…

Gemäss Fokus und mehreren online Quellen die den Fokus zitieren arbeitet Apple allem Anschein nach an einem In-Car Entertainment-, Kommunikations- und Navigationssystem. Und wie berichtet wird, soll M……

By: Robin Capper

Robin Capper — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:27:35 +0000

Great it’s corrected, would have been better if the original text was still shown struck out so could see why all the comments are here.

By: J R Port

J R Port — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:34:02 +0000

I believe iMobile has the Apple market beat by a number of years. These guys have been out now for 6 years with in car pc’s that operate wit no problem

By: Bob Dole

Bob Dole — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:22:01 +0000

this is huge…and a new direction…this is why they dropped the word ‘Computer’ from Apple Inc…smart move…

By: Jeff Clavier

Jeff Clavier — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:07:32 +0000

Just having a stereo, navigation, telephone and in-car mananagement system that has gone through a typical Apple usability design would be such a major improvement. Mercedes has recently released wonderful cars (the CLS is fantastic) but stereo and GPS systems are so unusable it is not even funny.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:44:27 +0000

Does that mean Mercedes vehicles will now run slower?

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:06:30 +0000

I just watched a recent video clip on Scoble with Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt and it got me thinking. Schmidt just said, when asked about radio advertising, “the car is not yet an addressable device”. Is this Mercedes deal one orchestrated by Google via Apple to control and enrich in car advertising?

By: Jens

Jens — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:02:17 +0000

Maybe you shouldn’t use google to translate german magazin articles Apple will not design an in-car maintenance system, it will design an entertainment system.

By: Curley

Curley — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:58:15 +0000

Did I say BMW? Mercedes!

By: Curley

Curley — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:55:24 +0000

My, my, BMW… what a big nose you have? Can you say edsel?

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:25:20 +0000

Oh, Apple.

By: WTF

WTF — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:02:33 +0000

Attempting to dominate the world has been a largely unsuccessful endeavor by all those have tried. I love Apple because it has been so focused and unwavering regarding it’s design principles. I hope my love for it doesn’t diminish as Apple branches out and spreads itself thin…

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:35:17 +0000

So apple a design company more than ever?

– Design of software and hardware …

– consultants?

– anything apple cant do?

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:28:48 +0000

How can you blame a man for being anti-MS?

By: EmEhRKay

EmEhRKay — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:43:23 +0000

If I am not mistaken, BMW uses a MS-based OS

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:31:03 +0000

Article corrected. Apologies that I wasn’t aware of the Microsoft car product, Microsoft is everywhere after all.

By: protestant

protestant — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:01:08 +0000

i don’t think i want windows controlling my car. what happens when it can’t find the right driver? does it crash?

…yes, i went there.

By: franky

franky — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:19:58 +0000

Why is the size of the Mini Mac relevant, if there is such a thing as iPhone, which works with Google Maps, and probably GPS functions supports?

By: Robin Capper

Robin Capper — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:54:14 +0000

I believe you can add Ford to Scott’s list of Automakers who are part of Microsofts “not serious effort”…

http://news.bbc...ess/6240479.stm

If this quality of article is considered worthy of TechCrunch it’s goodbye.

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:40:51 +0000

Wow, clearly reporting facts isn’t necessary to land a job with TechCrunch. At least make an attempt at researching something before boldly saying something like “there has been no serious effort so far to deliver Windows into vehicles”.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:09:14 +0000

Love your work Duncan, but I agree with Avatar — this needed at least a simple Google search before the anti-MS dig in the last paragraph …