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Originally Posted by Lukeswarm
It would be nice to now exactly why it doesn't work so we can nag whoever we need to... Is it the idrive software or iPhone???
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The way Blackberry works with iDrive (and Ford Sync) is the use of the new Bluetooth Message Access Profile (MAP); enabling access to emails and text messages. This is likely to be implemented by most smartphones in the future. Without it, it would be a more complicated workaround for each specific phones as to exactly which Bluetooth profiles they support (there are close to 30 different bluetooth profiles).
So if Apple goes with the standard and the trend and starts implementing MAP, iPhones would work with iDrive, Ford and many other devices right away. But you know Apple, they like implementing their own way and expect everyone else to cater to their decisions.