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Re:The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and withou... by preg_match on Sunday September 06, 2026 @10:27PM (#49593157)
That’s where CarPlay comes in, the tech doesn’t matter. Your phone has good navigation right? Good messages, good music. So just use that. Then it doesn’t really matter how awful the car infotainment is.

Even “good” infotainment (tesla) is inferior to CarPlay in many ways, because it’s not your phone. You don’t get your maps app with everything magically synced and working.

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Re:The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and withou... by HDBaseT on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @06:56PM (#49618315)
I don't think Apple Carplay nor Android Audo are good technology either though. They both appear as an afterthought and are completely isolated from the car.
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