When you’re dropping $75k on a car, you expect it not to have any compromises.
In that context "this car won't integrate with your phone so you'll need to rely on shoddy BT at best" is a pretty major issue.
I wouldn't buy a toyota I wanted simply because it didn't have Carplay and their infotainment sucked.
Their argument is that they want to make the internal software as good or better. I'll remain open minded as well..but TBH I fully expect almost all car makers to do this. No sane company would spend billions making a product and then let some other company overlay over it and make all the money.
They’re dropping Android Auto, the CarPlay equivalent.
They’re switching to Android Auto, the infotainment OS. Or is that Android Automotive? Or Android for Autos? Or Android Auto(motive?) OS, which is AAOS. Or something based on Android Open Source for cars or maybe Android Auto Open Source?
Which is not AOSP. Or Android. But kind of is.
I’m not in the Android world but I’m never sure what to call the car Android thing as opposed to the phone Android thing for use in cars.
Using Android Auto with your Android based auto. Sigh.
I give up. I’m going to go watch Apple TV on my Apple TV through the Apple made TV app.