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2024 was a huge year for technology, with artificial intelligence quickly becoming the most promising technological advancement since, well, maybe the internet itself. We also saw a ton of incredible new gadgets, laptops, telephones, tablets, electric vehiclesand yes, even a some cool new robots.
What we haven’t seen, however, is a couple of services and products that were promised for 2024, but just never saw the light of day, or were postponed to 2025 and beyond.
We waited and waited, and now that the year is over and 2025 is definitely here, it’s time to summarize the things we have he didn’t have get this year.
Apple’s next-generation CarPlay
Um, 2024 is over, folks. Where are the cars?
Credit: Apple
This is perhaps the most direct omission. Apple has long been working on the next generation of CarPlay. In the company’s words, it’s “the ultimate iPhone experience for the car,” as it basically takes the car’s infotainment and instrument cluster and turns it into a “cohesive design experience that’s the better than your car and your iPhone.”
While today’s CarPlay is adequate, it still feels strangely disconnected from the rest of the car’s user interface. But this new generation of CarPlay looks like it could bring us as close to the legendary Apple Car as we will ever go, since the company said. stopped working on the projectt after a decade of development.
The problem? The first cars with this new CarPlay should arrive in 2024, but they didn’t. It’s not just wishful thinking on our part, either: Apple has explicitly said so. In fact, the company’s CarPlay site still says that “the first models will arrive in 2024.” Sorry to be a bummer, but 2024 is over, so hopefully the new CarPlay-equipped models will arrive soon. When it happens, we expect it to be in a Porschewhich has been working to integrate the latest CarPlay functionality into its future models.
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The hi-fi level of Spotify
Spotify’s hi-fi subscription tier is one of the weirdest tech stories in recent years. The company initially announced in February 2021 (yes, almost four years ago), and, at the time, it seemed like a logical step to compete with Amazon, Apple and Tidal, all of which offer high-fidelity streaming on their music services.
Ah, the sweet sound of Spotify Hi-Fi did not launch a year after it was promised.
Credit: Spotify
Fast forward a couple of years, and Spotify has launched none of this, while stubbornly maintaining that something similar to a hi-fi subscription level is eventually coming (it may, however, be called Spotify). Supremiumor anything else).
Right now, there is no launch date for the service (well, if you don’t count the “later this year” which is what Spotify said in 2021), and the details are still very dark. The last we heard on the matter was from the CEO of Spotify, Daniel Ek, who he said that a “deluxe version of Spotify” with “better sound” is coming, but did not share when. Well, it certainly won’t happen in 2024.
Tesla’s cheapest car, Robotaxi, and unsupervised FSD
The fact that we did not receive any of the above in 2024 did not surprise anyone, since the CEO of Tesla has publicly said that they are all coming in 2025 and beyond. But it’s worth revisiting the topic, as the fabled super-affordable Tesla, the self-driving Tesla Robotaxi, which transports people, and a version of Tesla’s full driving software (FSD) that can drive the car autonomously, they were all promised for 2024 (or earlier) at some point.
For example, Musk he said in 2020 that Tesla could launch a $25,000 car by 2023. The idea has seen a lot of back and forth over the years, with Musk recently. give up on the idea of a “$25,000 non-robotaxis regular car model,” while at the same time promising a “more affordable” Tesla in the first half of 2025.
For Musk, Tesla Robotaxis should hit the streets by 2020; now the model of Robotaxi (or CyberCab, we are not sure of the name) has been revealedand is scheduled to launch in 2026.
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Finally, an unsupervised FSD, which should bring newer Teslas to the point where they can drive themselves without requiring the intervention of a human driver, is now planned for 2025, although it was originally promised in way, way before that. The latest widely available, supervised version of FSD launched very late in 2024and reports indicate that the company may finally be close to breaking even.
