How Silicon Valley And The Auto Industry Are Battling Over How To Bring Apps Into Cars

Perhaps the greatest potential for popular smartphone or tablet software and services is not in household appliances like TVs and refrigerators, or in wearable devices like wrist watches, but in cars. To state the obvious: Cars are inherently mobile. Additionally, many of the activities people do in their cars -- listen to music, look up directions -- mesh nicely with popular app-mediated activities on mobile gadgets. Americans spend an average of 1.2 hours a day traveling between locations and ...