It seems that "The next big thing" is related to the automotive industry. There are not a few companies that are related to an autonomous car in the long-term future. Google, Tesla or Apple itself are three of the brands that are related to an electric car that works without a driver for the next five years, but the importance of vehicles does not remain in the vehicle itself. Android Auto or C they are the first contact of Google and Apple in the software for cars.
More and more brands include support for an operating system that allows drivers to interact with vehicles without the need to take their eyes off the road. One of the brands that announced support for CarPlay was Hyundai, promising that the Sonata It could use the car operating system that was originally known as "iOS in the car" now about a year ago, but it hasn't arrived yet. Finally, it seems that this support will arrive in the first three months of 2016.
But if you have a Hyundai Sonata and you are reading these lines with hope, you have to know that it will not be free. To be able to use CarPlay on the Sonata you will need buy an SD card with the necessary drivers to update their systems, so the South Korean company breaks the promise that the Sonatas from 2015 onwards could use the system for free. On the other hand, they have not yet specified which models will be able to use the SD card that the system will include.
The reasons for the delay in the arrival of CarPlay to the Sonata and the decision not to add the support for free are unknown. On the other hand, they have not announced how much they will sell the SD card for, so there is still the (remote) possibility that they will back down and not charge this unexpected extra.
What is carplay good for? You can use 4 apps and stop counting. Not Google Maps.