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BMW releases two apps for iOS

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BMW has released two apps for iOS this week. The first one, based on the Mini brand, is called <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mini-connected/id376699654?mt=8">Mini Connected</a>, and it allows you to not only track information about your car, but also access web radio and audio versions of internet feeds, hooked up directly to your car's stereo. And on cars equipped with navigation features, you can even send directions and searches back and forth from your iPhone to the car's systems, and vice-versa.<br />
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<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bmw-connected/id406975118?mt=8">The BMW Connected app</a> does the same thing, only across the manufacturer's vehicle lineup. Interesting, not only that these apps exist (there are already a few solutions for doing all of these things out there), but that they're created and "sold" (both are free) by the car's manufacturers themselves. In essence, an Apple app is being used to market the functionality of these automobiles.<br />
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BMW releases two apps for iOS

BMW has released two apps for iOS this week. The first one, based on the Mini brand, is called Mini Connected , and it allows you to not on...

BMW Connected app hits iOS App Store, 'Apps' function hitting vehicles next year

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Like son, like father? Evidently that's exactly how things are playing out, with papa BMW following the footsteps of MINI in the run-up to 2011. Just days after the MINI Connected app found itself situated in the App Store, a BMW Connected app has done likewise. The software itself is free to download, but you'll need a 6NR-equipped Bimmer to take advantage. From what we can gather, you'll have to fork out €150 or so for the Apps option, but sadly, there are two costly prerequisites to that: a €3,800 navigation option and a €400 USB interface. In other words, we get the impression that <i>existing</i> BMW owners are out of luck. If you've got the magic concoction (available from March 2011), you'll be able to access web radio stations, hear your Twitter and Facebook updates aloud and control your music via the iDrive setup. That is, until iOS 4.3 goes and breaks compatibility with everything, forever. Joy, joy.<br />
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BMW Connected app hits iOS App Store, 'Apps' function hitting vehicles next year

Like son, like father? Evidently that's exactly how things are playing out, with papa BMW following the footsteps of MINI in the run-up...