Re:‘A huge blunder’: GM’s decision to ditch CarPlay, Android...
by usaar333 on Saturday April 15, 2023 @10:12AM
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My Tesla's lack of Android Auto is one of its biggest drawbacks. Even for navigation it is bad, as I'm forced to use the inferior Tesla map app (which unlike say Waze can't compute directions considering carpool lanes). You also end up with a lack of synchronized directions history to your phone.
IMO, the only upside to the customer is avoiding plugging a phone in. The phone experience is otherwise generally better across the board.
(On a latter note, I consider the Tesla UI good for a car, but bad overall. Climate app also generally sucks).
Re:‘A huge blunder’: GM’s decision to ditch CarPlay, Android...
by jinushaun on Saturday April 15, 2023 @10:08AM
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GM had decades to make a high quality in-car entertainment system on par with Teslas and failed. CarPlay and Android Auto was supposed to save us from that.
Re:‘A huge blunder’: GM’s decision to ditch CarPlay, Android...
by theshrike79 on Sunday April 16, 2023 @03:16AM
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Tesla is the only company I trust to keep their infotainment system up to date.
But still I'd really want it to support CarPlay, because I use Apple Music and Overcast the most when I'm in my car.
I also prefer the way Apple Maps pronounces the street names over here (phjone lang set to english) compared to the utter butchering Google Maps does.
Tesla doesn't offer android or iPhone carplay. Instead they try to offer a software experience superior to those. It does Spotify, gps, etc but also manages the car itself.
Depending on what the user is doing it makes sense. If the user mostly wanted their phone for music and directions, you can build that stuff in house and have it turn out okay. If the user wants carplay for much more than that, then it's not good.