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I'm a big fan of carplay, but I'm not sure I want whatever this is.

Some better integrations, sure. I can see wanting the carplay maps able to know the charge of the battery/fuel levels to plan out trips that include chargers/gas stations on the way.

But, taking over the entire dash? Nah, let's not overcomplicate things too much.

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100% this. I want exactly none of this new CarPlay. Car and phone integration has been notoriously bad since the beginning. Software updates on your phone break BT or CarPlay with some specific car or brand… or car entertainment software being buggy and not working well with a phone… and never getting updates. CarPlay is mostly good at what it is today. I certainly don’t want it to became more integrated into my car. I really hope the “full dash takeover” is just an option that can be switched off.

This is mostly a direct response to automakers removing CarPlay entirely so that they can own the end to end experience. Now these automakers such as GM won’t be able to justify doing so as improving the user experience.

So even if you never use this feature, you should still want it, because it’s the feature that is meant to keep CarPlay relevant

They announced this 3 years ago before car makers started removing it.

Maybe, but do you think they would have bothered doing this if automakers weren’t putting up hurdles in negotiations around CarPlay support? Writing on the wall for this was long before the announcements

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