Pioneer registers with the FCC for AppRadio

This is a rather foolish move. No one wants to see cords yes? But the reality is the iPhone's battery does not last long as it is. Using Airplay will drain your battery even faster... when you can simply plug it in to a car charger, ergo, plug it in to a car stereo. If you are going to do one, do the other... you can even get one that does both... out put the music thru a dock connector while charging the unit. Also, doing so will allow you to control the iPhone or iPad thru some of the more advanced head units. With Airplay, you have to control from the phone. Airplay works great from the couch in a home environment... but in a car when you are right next to the device?

I'd like to see Airplay in a car... why bother with docks and wires and stuff.. just let me pick the car stereo as my output destination and play whatever I want. Can't be that hard to do can it?

Maybe it wouldn't be hard for a company to create an in-dash screen that just uses an ipod dock/cable to transfer a mirrored screen of your iPhone. I think I would rather have a very intuitive (and safe) way of controlling basic functions while driving. Both would be great, let's hope the car entertainment industry isn't as bad as Apple when giving us choices. With the latest hardware and iOS capable of HDMI mirrored mode, this doesn't seem it'd be that hard.

I have the new Pioneer AVH-P4300DVD unit and I LOVE it. When I plug my phone in I can control Pandora right from my head unit. When I go into the "iPod" source on the head unit I can see video from apps that have enabled the video out API including Netflix, YouTube, Motion X GPS.

I am very anxious to see where this type of technology goes. I would love the ability to have my head unit be a full extension of my iPhone so that I could control everything from there (while parked, of course). I also hope that if this comes to fruition that it will be an available upgrade to current head units that offer this type of functionality already.