BMW Presents the New BMW iDrive 8.5 & 9. Launching With July 2023 Production

[olezheboka]

I am a little bit confused, does that mean that 3 series LCI will not get Drive 8.5 or Drive 9?

[Tejas1836]

Originally Posted by walketed

You realize that iDrive 9 is based on Android right? 95% of mobile phones in the world use Android. Apple BTW is based on Unix OS, it's just a template on top of the OS.

Do you use Apple maps? Apple search? Apple is a marketing company, really good, but far from being a top notch technology company.

I think BMW after not supporting Android initially, they saw their mistake and turned that decision around. Now they are basing the whole iDrive platform on Android OS!

"Apple's iPhone took 62% of Q1 global market share for devices costing over $400, with the iPhone 13 lineup driving the sales.
The smartphone market is declining, but Apple's share within that market is growing. It grew from 57% premium market share in Q1 2021 to 62% in Q1 2022."

[walketed]

Originally Posted by Tejas1836

"Apple's iPhone took 62% of Q1 global market share for devices costing over $400, with the iPhone 13 lineup driving the sales.
The smartphone market is declining, but Apple's share within that market is growing. It grew from 57% premium market share in Q1 2021 to 62% in Q1 2022."

This graph speaks for itself...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...ms-since-2009/

[AutoFFF]

Originally Posted by gunmike1

So I may have been BS’d, but when I picked up my week 26 build G80, which was the last week of 2023 M3 production, my CA said I had Idrive 8.5M. That seemed totally against everything I’ve read about the Idrive 8.5 roll out. The screen does look like what I see in the first post where it talks about Idrive 8.5M, but frankly I’ve never been in front of an Idrive 8 screen to even notice a difference. If I could easily check my head unit number I would know for sure, but I’m not aware of a way I’d be able to do it myself without going to a dealer.

Can you tell the latest software version? Mine is 07/2023.33 running on X5M which was produced in August,2023. I was expecting iDrive8.5 coming with the car, but the screen still appears to be the same as iDrive8.0.

[Tejas1836]

Android gets the poors, iPhone gets the BMW crowd. Note: "Premium smartphone market" ...devices costing over $400...
https://appleinsider.com/articles/22...les-in-q1-2022

[Forzanerazzurri]

Originally Posted by Tejas1836

Android gets the poors, iPhone gets the BMW crowd. Note: "Premium smartphone market" ...devices costing over $400...
https://appleinsider.com/articles/22...les-in-q1-2022

Apple is almost irrelevant on a global market share basis. Android has completely dominated the market for over a decade and its not even close. Apple has pockets of penetration, typically in North America but the world is built for Android. Its not as simple as saying "android gets the poors", rather that competition in the Android space has also driven innovation up and prices down, which is the best of both worlds for the consumer.

[Tejas1836]

Originally Posted by Forzanerazzurri

Apple is almost irrelevant on a global market share basis. Android has completely dominated the market for over a decade and its not even close. Apple has pockets of penetration, typically in North America but the world is built for Android. Its not as simple as saying "android gets the poors", rather that competition in the Android space has also driven innovation up and prices down, which is the best of both worlds for the consumer.

Reading is fundamental.
Your right, android has market share. Apple has the profits, high quality products and high quality consumers.
LOL, made my point who buys what
Android innovation, stop pretending

[c1pher]

Originally Posted by Tejas1836

Reading is fundamental.
Your right, android has market share. Apple has the profits, high quality products and high quality consumers.
LOL, made my point who buys what
Android innovation, stop pretending

There's a reason Porsche has only supported iOS devices. Very few Porsche owners have Androids.

[Josh-PA]

Originally Posted by c1pher

There's a reason Porsche has only supported iOS devices. Very few Porsche owners have Androids.

Actually, PCM has Android Auto built in natively but deactivated because they never worked out a license deal with Google. You can code it on pretty easily if you know what you're doing. As a Porsche owning Android user, I found it super helpful.

[ramparts]

Originally Posted by coldbluts

The main thing is actually the amount architecture change from x86 to ARM.

That’s idrive 9. 8.5 is still on x86, albeit a more powerfull one