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Apple Car Play and Android Auto are just going to be this exact same thing repeated. Once you have your CarPlay 1.0 car, the new FancyPhone 11 will come out and
by olyjohn 7y ago
Apple Car Play and Android Auto are just going to be this exact same thing repeated. Once you have your CarPlay 1.0 car, the new FancyPhone 11 will come out and only support cars with CarPlay 2.0. Then you're right back where you started!
This whole thing is dumb as hell. How about a standard like USB-C where you can pass thru keyboards, pointing devices and alt-mode video with one cable? It's a somewhat open standard, and would work with a number of phones RIGHT NOW with no stupid software tricks. Plus it charges your phone at the same time!! Like magic!!
- neogodless 7y agoNo thank you. Two counter-examples. While my 2015 Mazda does not officially support Android Auto, clever open-source programmers came up with a way to install it. I did that this spring. When Google updated Android Auto in the Play Store, the update came through without having to make any updates to the car. And, more interesting to me, the integration is, in my opinion, super sweet. When I'm using Google Maps, arrows are put up on my heads-up display. All the steering wheel audio controls work. The physical NAV and MUSIC buttons take me right to the correct tab in Android Auto, and the back button does what I expect it to.