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I'd heard of the TomTom SDK, but never even explored the option for quite a few of the concerns you managed to affirm from first hand experience.

I very much agree on your point about platform lock-in worries associated with automotive OEMs. Though Google via the Open Auto Alliance is making headway to push forward a more standard platform, it seems likely that OEMs will still wage territorial wars to lock app devs out of the data garden. The OEM caution is not without merit, they're the most likely legal target if someone drives into a wall because of poor usability from some buggy 3rd party Music app on their platform.

Given all of these potential in-car platform issues, how do you feel about creating an interface on the smartphone that makes accessing apps safer?