You will not need a phone to use Porsche's Taycan Apple music

Nowadays, most new cars are connected to a smartphone, Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, but no one has found a way to integrate this operating system into their vehicle. Until now, at least. Porsche integrates Apple Music into the all-electric Taycan so that its drivers can listen to their music without having to plug in their phone.

That said, you will still have to be an Apple Music subscriberwhich costs between $ 5 and $ 15 a month. If you already have Apple Music, it's great. If you need to buy it, well, it costs the same price as a Spotify subscription.

Here are other excerpts from the Porsche press release:

Thanks to the Porsche Advanced Cockpit's touch screen, Apple Music subscribers can stream more than 50 million ad-free songs, thousands of organized playlists and the Beats 1 global live stream with three years of free internet data in the car. This is the first full integration of Apple Music into any vehicle.

Drivers who already have to have There are other benefits to Apple CarPlay support: you can connect your iPhone to get updated traffic data on your GPS, make calls, and send SMS. If you have a Samsung, I guess you'll just have to deal with it (according to The Verge, 80% of Porsche drivers have an iPhone, according to the CEO of Porsche), but you'll have at least some Apple traffic jams for you keep company.

Porsche's plan is to use the Taycan almost as a test site before attempting to integrate a CarPlay application with other vehicles that can support the system, reports TechCrunch.

This is a positive move by Porsche and, as reported by The Verge, an Apple sign trying to make the most of its money through streaming, even if it means that its services must be integrated with devices other than Apple, such as whole cars.