Parks Associates, a market intelligence firm, claims that while connectivity is still in its infancy, it is moving along rather quickly. “We’re moving past the early adopter phase of connected cars,” said Jennifer Kent, a director at Parks. However, Kent claims that the issue isn’t with connected cars but with connected everything else, “You need a connected home to be able to connect your car to it,” and not many people are willing to make that sort of technological jump just yet.
From the article "BMW’s Connected Future Vision Getting Closer" by Nico DeMattia.
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