Volvo is Driving in The Right Direction in Infotainment Game
It’s time for every carmaker to join with the trend
Infotainment systems have been there in the market for more than 2 decades now. Like every other aspect of cars, each manufacturer does things a little bit differently in infotainment systems. From tiny non-responsive nightmares to tablet-sized, eye-catching graphic filled screens, they have come a long way from the initial units at the start of this millennium.
Tesla, BMW, Audi, Mercedes, Volvo, Peugeot, and many other car manufacturers have developed very responsive and relatively easy to use infotainment systems over the last decade. But no one has a universally well-received system just yet. Everyone seems to do something better than the other.
In an era where smartphones have become as good as they could be, it is hard to see why infotainment systems still lagging behind them, as they are essentially smartphones within automobiles. It might be due to the fact that carmakers, until very recently tried to develop those systems on their own without any help from the experts of the software field such as Google or Apple.
Yes, they have come with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, which mirrors your smartphone into the car infotainment system. But it is not the same if one of them…
