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Joe Rossignol speaking for MacRumors,

Toyota and Lexus plan to expand CarPlay compatibility to other 2019 model year and beyond vehicles with its Entune 3.0 and Enform 2.0 multimedia systems respectively, according to company spokesperson Brian Lyons. Toyota and Lexus vehicles with CarPlay will initially be sold in the United States only.

Finally. I bought a Lexus in January of 2016, very reluctantly because of the lack of CarPlay. Never again. I never use the car navigation, instead mounting my iPhone on the dash. I assume it is technologically impossible to retrofit the old system to be CarPlay compatible.

Joe Rossignol, writing for MacRumors,

Currently, even when using Apple Pay, a signature can be required on occasion for purchases over $25 made with a Visa card in the United States. But with EMV technology and other modern safeguards, Visa is now moving to fully eliminate this requirement, in line with Mastercard, American Express, and Discover.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to tell a cashier, “you don’t really need my signature.” This has happened to me even with purchases under $25, so I doubt we’ll see this go away entirely.

Jesse Hollington, writing for iLounge:

What you may not know, however, is that you can also send calls in the other direction — transfer an in-progress call from your iPhone over to your Apple Watch.

Click through the link to see how to do this. My initial reaction was, “ooooohhh,” followed by trying to think of a time I might ever do this. Cool nonetheless.