> What I am skeptical about is that this will continue to be solved for the next few years: there's always that chance that Google will outright kill it, or App

> What I am skeptical about is that this will continue to be solved for the next few years: there's always that chance that Google will outright kill it, or Apple/Samsung/whoever will become exclusive to a single car manufacturer, or the manufacturers will somehow bungle this up with a subscription model of some sort. Or the manufacturers decide they don't like users bypassing their revenue models: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/03/gm-confirms-its-dropping-apple-carplay-and-android-auto-from-2024-evs/ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/03/gm-confirms-its-droppin... FWIW, I absolutely love Carplay and paid extra to have compatible head units installed in any of my previous cars that didn't have built in support. It's been fantastic, but I don't trust manufacturers to do what's in my own best interest. See also the recent Mozilla privacy findings for cars.