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You need to look into it and see which apps may be of use to you, what they cost after the free time runs out and so forth.
I had it on my F10. Paid for internet for a year. Didn't renew because it was so awkward to use.
Tried to use the send a route to the car google thing but could never get it to work properly. Didn't find it that useful anyway but it could be if you plan multi stop routes at home.
RTTI was useful but not worth the £120 or whatever to renew at 3 yo. I think that's free for life in the G30.
I never needed the concierge service, not interested in streaming and fortunately never needed the emergency service.
I could sync my phone so texts, mails appeared on screen. Would have been useful except you needed to 'log in' with mail address, password etc every time you started the car. If you stopped for 5 min, get back in, it all needed set up again. I stopped bothering very quickly! May be better with G30
So, in my case I think it was more useful to BMW than me because they seem to know exactly when my car needs a service; they call me around 1000 mikes before it's due and know the mileage etc. Not sure what else they know.......
I'd be interested in how you get on, hopefully it's better now and worth the money.
I had it on my F10. Paid for internet for a year. Didn't renew because it was so awkward to use.
Tried to use the send a route to the car google thing but could never get it to work properly. Didn't find it that useful anyway but it could be if you plan multi stop routes at home.
RTTI was useful but not worth the £120 or whatever to renew at 3 yo. I think that's free for life in the G30.
I never needed the concierge service, not interested in streaming and fortunately never needed the emergency service.
I could sync my phone so texts, mails appeared on screen. Would have been useful except you needed to 'log in' with mail address, password etc every time you started the car. If you stopped for 5 min, get back in, it all needed set up again. I stopped bothering very quickly! May be better with G30
So, in my case I think it was more useful to BMW than me because they seem to know exactly when my car needs a service; they call me around 1000 mikes before it's due and know the mileage etc. Not sure what else they know.......
I'd be interested in how you get on, hopefully it's better now and worth the money.
jacobingonzo said:
Getting a G30 in March and noticed CD was standard kit-anybody got any experiences good or bad?
CD on my 335d is just a load of menus that appear to lead nowhere useful and functionality or data I'd rather not share with BMW.I'd prefer BMW to just support a smart phones functionality via some clever API stuff.
In the end they're just after their own share of the 'web' data/subscription pie and want you to find their services indispensable but they're nowhere near good enough imo.
They should embrace open and be utility agnostic over proprietary imo.
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