John Gruber
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This straight up looks like someone photoshopped like a juju tablet into this with cut off corners.
And then there's a big, wide, long stripe of screen up at the top that I think is like pretending to be a heads up display, but seems to just show you the weather.
And then you're right.
It's showing what music is playing three times.
You can see what music is playing three different places.
But then it looks like a paddle shifter, but it's like a translucent paddle.
No, this is like the car of the future according to like 1954.
I think car companies think that people in passenger seats can't reach the center screen.
This is wild.
Anyway, I just.
It's also like really ugly.
Like it would be one thing if this was like more technology than you needed, but it was all kind of, you know, put together thoughtfully.
This literally, it looks like someone took a prototype of an Android tablet from 2012 and
and just like super glued it onto the dashboard of a BMW.
Correct.
It literally shows you the song that's playing three times.
This is the best idea they had for what to put on these screens.
Let's just show them the song that's playing three times.
This is really validating my purchase of a 2018 Hyundai Ioniq that gets 50 miles to the gallon and does nothing interesting.
Sure can't.