> If at all possible, buy a car without any computer more powerful than the ECU and just use your phone or a tablet or an aftermarket “””smart””” interface. Th

> If at all possible, buy a car without any computer more powerful than the ECU and just use your phone or a tablet or an aftermarket “””smart””” interface. That's rather the point of CarPlay. It takes the "smarts" out of the car and essentially lets your phone use the car - its touchscreen, its speakers, even its GPS receiver - as a massive peripheral device. The truly offensive aspect of this is that the CarPlay standard is effectively fixed. There is no further maintenance or code required. BMW doesn't need to write a software update for the next version of iOS because CarPlay doesn't care about anything at that layer. All it cares about are audio and video streams to be presented and inputs to be received.