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Unpopular opinion: Carplay and android auto both suck ass. It's menu hell and you have to exit it to get to the car settings instead of making the damn car settings an app icon within carplay. Bad design and slow and it requires 5-10 times more button presses than a good infotainment system. Tesla and Rivian kick the shit out of them and make them look bad.
Honestly your opinion is invalid if you’re praising Tesla.
But the convenience of CarPlay/AA is that it doesn’t matter that car you’re driving, it’s consistent. It’s niche, but I travel a lot end up in rentals a lot. I’ll always prefer the rental with CarPlay since I’m used to how it works. I don’t have to learn every useless car brands infotainment it’s tied to my phone and just works.
FFS carplay doesnt support pinch to zoom or pan on the map.
Android Auto does.
It also has the car infotainment as an app in the app list, at the top of the list by default.
OK then it sounds like the fault lies with Steve Jobs's ghost not screaming at the carplay engineers enough.