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by amethyst 1014 days ago
> 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:

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.