I wouldn't even consider a car that doesn't support carplay. i've not seen an infotainment system in YT car reviews that are not laggy AF (except tesla and rivian obv). CBA with them, looking forward to carplay 2.
GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help
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Re: GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help
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The reactions in this thread are interesting, because they seem to imply that this is the final straw that has convinced us to not buy Chevrolets and Buicks, as opposed to the last 30+ years of of their products being generally terrible.
But the hope was that their new EV lineup would change things, and pull people back.
The Lyriq looks really nice
Re: GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help
#383Regardless of whether you prefer Apple or Google, the benefit of phone projection is that you can get a good experience with relatively low specs from the head unit because the heavy lifting is done by the phone which can be upgraded independently of the car. Even powered by Google, the infotainment system is going to age like milk since you’ll be locked into hardware that will be midrange at best, several years old…
The huge advantage of having the phone running the infotainment is that you already pay for the phone's data connection. If the car does it you need to pay an additional subscription to get that data connection.
THIS!
GM has done this so they can charge monthly fees, and it sucks.
Re: GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help
#384Dropping CarPlay and Android Auto, in favour of Android Automotive… which is different from Android Auto. More seriously, Automotive is basically the car running Android, rather than running some custom firmware that can receive the “mirror” content from CarPlay/Auto. Because this means it’ll be running a full app platform, I wonder if CarPlay/Auto could be implemented on top of Automotive with relative ease. It may…
>I wonder if CarPlay/Auto could be implemented on top of Automotive with relative ease.
It can, and already has. Google offers an official Android Auto Receiver app for Android Automotive that allows for wired/wireless Android Auto projection onto an AAOS head unit. (It requires build integration so it can't just be installed from Google Play, but it's an option for OEMs.)
As for CarPlay, there's no official integration package from Apple, but it can be done, as demonstrated by Polestar.
Re: GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help
#385This is such blatant rent-seeking nonsense and I think it will backfire.
These articles always call out Tesla as a success but clearly they have a cult following and have other innovations. Personally, lack of CarPlay is the reason I hate driving Teslas because if you’re not used to it the UI is abysmal.
Sorry but the Buick brand just doesn’t scream cutting edge UI to me.
Re: GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help
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All vehicles. Apple announced the total UI takeover option (though I’m not sure if it works today) but no car maker supports it on a shipping vehicle. Many have announced interest but at this point we don’t know if it will ever be available, even if only on some kind of ultra-luxury car.
I drive a 2021 Toyota RAV4. The CarPlay interface takes over the whole screen. It also does so in every rental or borrowed car I’ve ever driven.
Yes, in older designs with the smaller screens it does need to take over. EVs are moving to larger screens where there is room to place CarPlay into one section of the screen and keep other areas “native”.