Originally Posted By: hybrid8
I didn't know any accessory could cause an app to launch. I have a Logitech speaker dock that I just purchased this week and it works fine with any app I want to launch on it, including Amp. The iPod app is definitely not auto-launched. It isn't using a Bose dock at a friend's place either.


Yes, HW can make an app auto-launch; that's used on some things like eg the ODB diagnostics apps/tools.

The speaker docks are a little different to the car hookups though; car hookups often provide an absolutely awful browsing interface and I'm totally sure that the 3rd party players are not implementing that protocol (and fairly sure that there's probably no hookup for it). There's an insane amount of QA there to ensure that all the wrinkles with all the carkits are taken care of which probably means that no 3rd party would want to go near it....