Electric Vehicles: Tesla specific talk, current firmware, purchasing, modifications

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Eric said:
Wow that's a great audience, appreciate you mentioning my concerns as well. In the end I don't know that we can fully blame BMW for the wireless issues but if we were allowed it to be wired again that would solve the whole thing.

It would help if the media player of the infotainment system wasn't so awesome, BMW did an exceptional job with this and I'm just not willing to let it go for CarPlay, which is frankly substandard in comparison.I understand I can use both but it's a headache and distracting to swap back and forth while driving.
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meanwhile, i don’t even know how to use the built in media because everything I listen to is via carplay (youtube, mlb.tv, apple music, and sirius/xm - i could do that using the satellite antenna, but the carplay app means I don’t lose signal under bridges and I don’t have to jump out of carplay. I haven’t listened to FM radio in 20 years, so not much reason for me to use the car’s native hardware.
 
Cmaier said:
meanwhile, i don’t even know how to use the built in media because everything I listen to is via carplay (youtube, mlb.tv, apple music, and sirius/xm - i could do that using the satellite antenna, but the carplay app means I don’t lose signal under bridges and I don’t have to jump out of carplay. I haven’t listened to FM radio in 20 years, so not much reason for me to use the car’s native hardware.
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Fair enough, makes sense for your use case and I know that @DT feels the same.
 
Cmaier said:
I haven’t listened to FM radio in 20 years,
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Interesting... now that I think about it, same here. Must have something to do with Apple Music giving me all the music I like and want to hear.

Exception: I do go to sleep to and wake up to NPR (KQED) on my clock radio for news and commentary - a habit I've had for around 30 years.
 
Citysnaps said:
Interesting... now that I think about it, same here. Must have something to do with Apple Music giving me all the music I like and want to hear.

Exception: I do go to sleep to and wake up to NPR (KQED) on my clock radio for news and commentary - a habit I've had for around 30 years.
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I actually listen to it quite a bit and it's one of the main reasons I like using the built in infotainment system because I can add them all into a single favorites and I can use the idrive to flip through all the stations.
 
Citysnaps said:
Exception: I do go to sleep to and wake up to NPR
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I think we recently lost Susan Stamberg. I about grew up on her (teenage years, at least). At least with NPR, you can tell what is national and what is genuinely local, unlike commercial radio, which is all generated in a studio in Pittsburgh with the engineers pasting in DJ comments meant for regional outlets to make it seem local. It is all canned garbage (surströmming, as it were) that is not worth the pain.
 
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