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Re:GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto beca... by RockRobotRock on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:59AM (#38625037)
>you can literally get a £50 adapter, leave it plugged in inside your armrest and voila, you have wireless carplay. It literally "just works".

I'm thankful for whichever Chinese engineers reversed the protocol for CarPlay to make this work. But my experience with these adapters is they are more fiddly than you're describing.

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Re:GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto beca... by gambiting on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @05:33AM (#38625342)
I mean I have one for wireless android auto and it does just work, it's plugged in, I never have to think about it or worry about it, it just pops up on my screen as if it was built into the car. Maybe the CarPlay ones are more fiddly, I'm not sure.
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Re:GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto beca... by RockRobotRock on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:56PM (#38634721)
When I said CarPlay I meant that my particular adapter had reverse engineered the CarPlay protocol to communicate with the car over USB. It can do wireless android auto as well.
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Re:GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto beca... by NordSteve on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @09:16AM (#38627664)
My aftermarket Carplay adapter works 100% of the time. Need to make sure both the car and phone Bluetooth aren't paired, then works great.
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