While their own stupid fingerprints are all over the footgun's trigger...I for-sure don't envy the auto makers here. An "old" phone is what, 4 or 5 years old?

While their own stupid fingerprints are all over the footgun's trigger...I for-sure don't envy the auto makers here. An "old" phone is what, 4 or 5 years old? At least on the iPhone side, Apple is [in]famously vertically integrated, to have the all the resources needed to update iOS. And Apple kinda-famously issued a security patch for iOS 12 (released Sept'18) in Jan'23, because pre-2015-ish iPhones could not run any newer version of iOS. Vs. the computing hardware and software in a modern car comes from how many different supplies, spread across how many tiers, with how little visibility from the PoV of the computers-ain't-their-forte auto makers? And an "old" car can easily be 10 to 25 years old.