[ninkendo]

The sad thing, is that somewhere out there there’s an infotainment PM at an automotive company taking note of every item in your list and saying “let’s implement stuff like that in our infotainment system! It’ll be a (jazz hands) differentiator!”

The auto manufacturers still have this delusion that they’re competing with Apple and Google on infotainment, instead of seeing the truth that better phone integration is not only the technically better solution, it’s something the customers want, and something that saves the company money. But you can’t get someone to understand something when their salary requires that they not understand it.