At the beginning of the lecture, Mr. Murari said, "Ford is a company that makes cars to enrich people's lives, which was the goal of the founder Henry Ford. Today's Ford, of course, makes cars. We are a company, but we are also a technology company.Our mission is to provide drivers with smart and safe cars." On top of that, Mr. Murari said, ``We have provided a service that connects to the network called SNYC from an early stage.We have already shipped 3.5 million units in Europe and have shipped 9 million units globally.'' Explained the process.
As an example of a car for Europe equipped with such a SYNC, we will introduce the SUV car "ECOSPORT" that the company has been selling since last year, and a mechanism to add applications prepared for SYNC-equipped vehicles such as ECOSPORT. SYNC with AppLink”.
SYNC with AppLink is an app store for SYNC prepared by Ford, and you can add applications to the in-vehicle information system as if you were adding applications to your smartphone. Mr. Murari said, "We have already provided 4 services for SYNC with AppLink, and this time we will add 9 new applications. We also want to announce that we will collaborate with Deutsche Telekom on application development." announced a new application for SYNC with AppLink and a collaboration with Deutsche Telekom, Germany's largest telecommunications company.
3.5 million SYNC-equipped vehicles have already been shipped in Europe and 9 million worldwide. The ECOSPORT special edition vehicle launched last year comes standard with the nine new applications announced today. Nine new applications were announced by seven new partners, and a partnership with Deutsche Telekom was also announced. Mr. Preet said, "We open-sourced the development environment for SYNC with AppsLink and donated it to GENIVI, an organization that standardizes in-vehicle information systems. More than 5,000 developers have already registered for such a development environment. We have an application for Android and iOS to search for and download to SYNC." According to Preet, SYNC with AppLink for the European region already offers four apps, including Spotify and Grim, and nine new apps will be offered this time.The new applications provided include "ASKWiki", which allows you to search for information on Wikipedia by voice, and SMS from Deutsche Telekom's mobile phone carrier T-Mobile (a company like NTT DoCoMo in Japan). "T-Mobile" application that can be used, an application that can receive traffic information such as TomTom, a car navigation maker, a hotels.com application that can make hotel reservations, an ADAC application that can search for parking information in Germany, a German newspaper " Diberto" app was introduced.
Mr. Preet said, "In the future, we will further raise the version of AppLink to 2.0, with functions such as incoming notifications such as e-mails that are realized on smartphones, voice pass-through functions, and access to more detailed vehicle information. We will continue to work closely with the developer community to develop it," he said, explaining that he would like to develop SYNC with AppLink and provide more applications.
Ford Motor Company Connected Services Division Manager Ed Preet SYNC with AppsLink, a mechanism for adding new functions to SYNC, The development environment for SYNC with AppsLink has been proposed to GENIVI as open source 5,000 developers are already Ford developers SYNC with AppsLink version 2.0 adds even more features with 9 new apps added to the existing 4
