Amazon Music will make up part of the TomTom IndiGO experience, allowing drivers to stream millions of songs at their leisure.
A boon for carmakers
While drivers will have a lifetime of driving music at their fingertips, for carmakers the benefit is that they can integrate a music streaming platform, with its comprehensive library of tunes, into their vehicles easily and quickly as part of the TomTom IndiGO platform.
“Thanks to the support of our partners, carmakers can choose from a broad range of ready to use apps and services that are easily brought together through the TomTom IndiGO platform to offer users a seamless digital cockpit experience”, Antoine Saucier, Managing Director TomTom Automotive, said in the announcement.
Drivers won’t have to use their phones to access services like this in their car, rather the music feature is natively part of the vehicle’s infotainment system. Apps that are designed natively to work in a vehicle will integrate seamlessly and provide a much more consistent experience than when mirroring a phone-based app.
It’s all about choice
Really what matters here is that drivers are starting to get choice and that’s all a result of how easy and simple it is to integrate apps with TomTom IndiGO. The open nature of the platform means that Amazon Music is likely to be just one of many third-party provider partner apps. It’s only just getting started.
Amazon Music is just one part of a growing ecosystem of natively integrated apps and partners coming to TomTom’s new digital cockpit platform. If this is a sign of things to come; good times (and tunes) await.
