> What I am skeptical about is that this will continue to be solved for the next few years: there's always that chance that Google will outright kill it, or Apple/Samsung/whoever will become exclusive to a single car manufacturer, or the manufacturers will somehow bungle this up with a subscription model of some sort.
Or the manufacturers decide they don't like users bypassing their revenue models:
FWIW, I absolutely love Carplay and paid extra to have compatible head units installed in any of my previous cars that didn't have built in support. It's been fantastic, but I don't trust manufacturers to do what's in my own best interest.
See also the recent Mozilla privacy findings for cars.
Or the manufacturers decide they don't like users bypassing their revenue models:
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/03/gm-confirms-its-droppin...
FWIW, I absolutely love Carplay and paid extra to have compatible head units installed in any of my previous cars that didn't have built in support. It's been fantastic, but I don't trust manufacturers to do what's in my own best interest.
See also the recent Mozilla privacy findings for cars.