> They make the experience of being in the car way way better.
> I literally will not buy a car that does not support CarPlay.
I drive more than you, longer distances. I've been to Ibiza by car (with the car on the boat at some point, obviously), to the UK (with the car either on a boat or, later on, inside a train), I've crossed Germany at insane (legal) speeds to go to the end of Poland, I've been to Sweden, to Andorra, Italy, Croatia, etc.
For I hate airplanes and very rarely hop in one (last time was in 2019).
What makes the experience of driving sweet is soundproofing, the quality of the seats, the overall sweetness of the ride.
It's got absolutely nothing to do with how big the screen (that shows you the same thing as your phone) is and zero to do with OS of the car's infotainment (unless the carmaker really fucked up big times and made an unusable system).
The F-segment cars (euro notation) are enjoyable rides and this has nothing to do with Apple or Android CarPlay:
As a bonus: the soundsystem. People are going to say that listening to music in a car sucks anyway but once you get into high-end luxury cars, suddenly the sound proofing is so good that listening to music while driving is actually enjoyable.
My car runs QNX as the OS for the infotainment. It's got its own memory for songs (I can put either mp3 or FLAC files: I have a mix of both), it's got an audio CD player (which I sometimes use, just because I can) and it's got bluetooth, so I can use Spotify or whatever suits me.
It's mostly "one button / one function": not some distracting touch screen.
It's a sweet sweet ride and I guarantee you that there are very few brand new cars from 2026 that are sweeter rides than my ride from 2013 (which, of course, I bought used --8 years ago now-- and paid less than most brand new cars).
Now my car is 13 years old and has more than 200 000 km (125 000 miles): it's going to be time to change it. I'll sell it for half what I paid it and I'll buy another high-end luxury car, used. Same brand, same model.
This time it'll have CarPlay (because the carmaker moved from QNX to CarPlay): but I guarantee you that it's not what makes that car great not that it's why I'll buy it.
Judging a car, an item that's made for driving, by how easy it is to connect your smartphone to it is just plain face-palming and shows how addicted society is to smartphones.
> I literally will not buy a car that does not support CarPlay.
I drive more than you, longer distances. I've been to Ibiza by car (with the car on the boat at some point, obviously), to the UK (with the car either on a boat or, later on, inside a train), I've crossed Germany at insane (legal) speeds to go to the end of Poland, I've been to Sweden, to Andorra, Italy, Croatia, etc.
For I hate airplanes and very rarely hop in one (last time was in 2019).
What makes the experience of driving sweet is soundproofing, the quality of the seats, the overall sweetness of the ride.
It's got absolutely nothing to do with how big the screen (that shows you the same thing as your phone) is and zero to do with OS of the car's infotainment (unless the carmaker really fucked up big times and made an unusable system).
The F-segment cars (euro notation) are enjoyable rides and this has nothing to do with Apple or Android CarPlay:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-segment
As a bonus: the soundsystem. People are going to say that listening to music in a car sucks anyway but once you get into high-end luxury cars, suddenly the sound proofing is so good that listening to music while driving is actually enjoyable.
My car runs QNX as the OS for the infotainment. It's got its own memory for songs (I can put either mp3 or FLAC files: I have a mix of both), it's got an audio CD player (which I sometimes use, just because I can) and it's got bluetooth, so I can use Spotify or whatever suits me.
It's mostly "one button / one function": not some distracting touch screen.
It's a sweet sweet ride and I guarantee you that there are very few brand new cars from 2026 that are sweeter rides than my ride from 2013 (which, of course, I bought used --8 years ago now-- and paid less than most brand new cars).
Now my car is 13 years old and has more than 200 000 km (125 000 miles): it's going to be time to change it. I'll sell it for half what I paid it and I'll buy another high-end luxury car, used. Same brand, same model.
This time it'll have CarPlay (because the carmaker moved from QNX to CarPlay): but I guarantee you that it's not what makes that car great not that it's why I'll buy it.
Judging a car, an item that's made for driving, by how easy it is to connect your smartphone to it is just plain face-palming and shows how addicted society is to smartphones.
It's really just freaking sad.