Can someone explain what exactly carplay/Android auto do? I've seen a lot about them recently but have yet to fully understand what they are, besides that they are for interfacing with a car.

My experience with connecting phones to my (parent's) cars is just using Bluetooth to connect and play music from the car speakers and receive calls and texts over it but that's about it. The cars are both Toyota RAV4s, one fully ICE one hybrid.

I own a GM car and the head unit is buggy as hell. There’s no way they are going to be able to pull this off.

I’ve seen CarPlay used once. However, I much prefer Tesla’s system. Something about CarPlay seemed laggy and limited. Like, you couldn’t even a read a text; it had to be read to you, even while stopped.

CarPlay best play.

TIL there’s an upside to GM ditching CarPlay. Fuck car dealers!

Apple fan boys are gonna lose their minds.

Thanks for further solidifying the fact that I'll never buy a GM car or truck. Good job, ya idiots.

Of course it will go bad. This is the most obvious stupid move I've seen in a while.

It's fascinating reading all of the responses here. I've never driven a car with Android Auto or CarPlay, and only use my phone for music and maps infrequently while in the car (with an aftermarket Bluetooth adapter). So I guess I don't really know what I'm missing. I have absolutely no doubt that GM's software wouldn't be as good as connecting up to your phone, but I just have a hard time imagining that being the deciding factor on buying a car or not.