Apple’s CarPlay… just how big a deal is it?

Nine months after being unveiled by Eddy Cue at Apple’s 2013 WWDC event, CarPlay (neé iOS in the Car) is ready for launch. Except its not strictly available yet. Nor has it “launched” in the true sense of the word. It will be (in certain Ferrari, Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo models). Soon.

Hype aside, CarPlay’s launch is embarrassingly short on detail. This is strange, especially given that it commands its own feature page on apple.com. The delay in shipping iOS 7.1 is likely also due to the CarPlay integration (there’s no other conceivable reason that beta testing has taken this long, especially with the minor feature tweaks).

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