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by MobileVet 309 days ago
This isn’t something I have actively thought about… but now that you bring it up, I am definitely concerned. If the APIs were deprecated, CarPlay would be useless as the auto manufacturers would not update their head unit.

The thread about an F150 with a known Bluetooth issue is a great example. Number one vehicle sold in the US for a LONG time, and yet no incentive to keep it working apparently
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account42 308 days ago
It's not like car manufacturers have any more incentive to update the built in navigation and multimedia applications either.
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kube-system 309 days ago
Automakers didn't update the cassette decks in their cars when CDs came out. You could expect cassettes to be around in cars for a good solid ~20 years, but that was about it. At some point technology moves on.

> Number one vehicle sold in the US for a LONG time, and yet no incentive to keep it working apparently

Yeah, there's no incentive to fix problems when people buy the product anyway.

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devilbunny 308 days ago
> Automakers didn't update the cassette decks in their cars when CDs came out.

And reasonably enough: few people even in the early 90s had CD changers in cars, and people didn't want to scratch their discs, and in any case everyone pretty much still had a tape deck at home - it wasn't too hard to copy your CD to tape, which was cheap, small, rerecordable, and more durable, and sound quality in cars wasn't great anyway.

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