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I don't want any ties to a phone manufacturer or OS, honestly. I'll have my car a lot longer than I have my phone. Just give me decent sound and an charge/aux c
by SoftTalker 1y ago
I don't want any ties to a phone manufacturer or OS, honestly. I'll have my car a lot longer than I have my phone. Just give me decent sound and an charge/aux connection. The rest I can do on my phone with a mount.
- turtlebits 1y agoThere aren't any. Just don't use carplay/android auto and you just have the manufacturer supplied interface.
- SoftTalker 1y agoThat's true, as long as they give me an aux port.
- jcotton42 1y ago> I'll have my car a lot longer than I have my phone Doesn't that make CarPlay/Android Auto a good thing? Provided the car supports both platforms, it means you can change phones during your car's lifespan without having to worry about losing features, and you get new phones as your phone upgrades without having to change your car.
- SoftTalker 1y agoI don't know, what if a third mobile OS is developed and gains traction (or is just one that I prefer) but it isn't supported by the car. What if future releases of iOS or Android are incompatible with a 10-year-old version of CarPlay or Android Auto? I'd just prefer to minimize dependencies.
- JCBird1012 1y agoCarPlay and Android Auto were engineered from the start to be as agnostic to the car's hardware as possible. Your car's stereo is really just a dumb screen (i.e. just a display and input/output interface) with the phone doing most of the rendering + a few other things (i.e. providing some car instrumentation, like fuel remaining, if the manufacturer enables it) - the hardware requirements aren't really strict from a performance standpoint (minus CarPlay Ultra, and even then, that's just a tighter integration).
- reverius42 1y agoKind of a waste of the nice big screen built into the car, then. Are you just going to use it as a backup camera?