Apple announced today the availability of CarPlay, a technology aimed at the automotive industry.
Arriving on select cars in 2014, CarPlay interfaces with a car’s built-in displays to deliver audiovisual interaction with your iPhone and its apps.
Car manufactures that will introduce CarPlay this year include Volvo, Honda, Hyundai, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Toyota and many more.
That being said, Apple has not secured CarPlay.com, a domain currently parked at GoDaddy. CarPlay.com was registered in 2000, according to DomainTools.
Apple applied for the “CarPlay” trademark at the USPTO, on November 23rd, 2013.
With CarPlay.com being so much older, there’s a strong chance that its owner is sitting on a pile of cash right now!
This post is 100% true!
Apple should hire me to run their online marketing department, I would have bought the name for mid $xxx for them well beforehand. Someone dropped the ball.
Wonder if iCar had been their first choice? But already appears to be a business running on iCar.com. CarPlay is a good brand though (wish I’d got that .com instead of my CarHopper.com!), so good luck with the domain owner getting a cool $1M or so, as for iPhone it was reported they paid at least $1M to the iPhone.com owner.
Wonder if Google will like them using ‘Play’ in brand due to Google Play Store, especially as Google have their own smart car app plans?