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I love it. It’s also clearly a sasquatch, not a “thingy”. ;)

FWIW, I use voice to do a LOT of things these days... though probably fewer things that Amazon would hope, and yes, many of them are pretty minor optimizations.... I have a lot of opinion as to what the world would look like if self-driving worked and how fast the shift may or may not happen...

I've been wondering if they will drop a bunch of R1S news today to boost the narrative around the financials... I'd love to know more about what is coming to my driveway in March!

Rivian has a Seattle office for engineering and other things these days.

They probably need to do the R1S info release before they fully open the guide floodgates as well…

Amazon tried to compete with phones and fell flat on its face (as did Microsoft). Part of the issue in ecosystems like phones is there are two sides that are both very very important. The first side is core experience provided by the OS/handset vendors of the world (performance, OS UX, etc) and...

Nice, I just read through the APIs. It does seem they added split view support way back in iOS 13, it's just almost no cars supported it until more recently (BMW and select VW's seem to support it now, unclear who else). I can't find a good list of apps that actually implement it (Apple Maps and...

It's possible this has changed, but last I looked at the implementation details it allowed you to mirror an app on both displays or have 1 app running on each. I don't believe it allowed having a different view from the same app on both like Rivian (or Tesla on the S and X) does. The latter...

?‍♂️ I don't think there is any contradiction in my argument. Your point was that Amazon was dictating this behavior in your original post and I see no evidence that supports that being true. Alexa integration like Rivian is doing gives them complete control of the UX hand-off points. Rivian...

Yep. There are financial motives here. Rivian called out the membership program as a major source of future revenue in their S1 filings. CarPlay and AA would erode the value of the membership as they use the phone’s connectivity, not the cars.

I worked for Amazon for 13 years (I left pretty recently), much of it in a reasonably senior leadership position. I understand quite well how they work and I'm incredibly skeptical they are behind the scene calling the UX shots on Rivian's consumer products. The lack of including Carplay and AA...

This "Amazon is making them do it" narrative keeps coming up, but it's ridiculous. Having driven the R1T, you know what the default music service is? Spotify! Does Amazon own Spotify? No. Most of Amazon's Apps work with Car Play and Android Auto and Apple Music works just fine with Alexa. Amazon...

My R1S LE window is March - April 2020 for a Day 1 Seattle pre-order.

This is the best photo of a Rivian Blue R1T on the internet... because I was the one driving it;)

My uninformed hot take here.... I'd guess there is a problem, either with durability or something else, and it's probably a good thing ultimately they are fixing it. My second more informed hot take... having been in the Kindle business unit at Amazon when it went from very small to giant...

I’d second all of this. I know Amazon has some agreements about van production as referenced in the S1 filling. They don’t control Rivian product decisions though. That is simply not how any of this works…

I seem to be in the minority here, but I have a car with CP/AA and a Tesla and the CP/AA experience is awful in comparison. It’s so bad in fact, neither my wife or I bother to use it most of the time. Apps don’t work consistently. What you can do with voice vs touch isn’t consistent. The UX...

I did my drive in Seattle on Monday morning. I think the thing that surprised me most is how much the driving dynamics seemed to shift from Off-Road to Sport. It really felt like the personality changed completely. It was really hard to believe I was driving a truck riding on AT's when in Sport...

I started counting today when I got my test drive and… there are so many… so so so many…

Sure. The point I was trying to make, is that having gone from a car with 360-degree surround view to a Tesla I missed that feature for about 5 minutes. The solutions Tesla has provided for the same problem are different but quite effective in my experience. I'd implement both probably.