The UI is not provided by your head unit software. The head unit software basically allows your phone to use it as a display... so if you buy a new phone or new software for your phone comes out, the skin will get updated.

You don't need to do that, because there's nothing preventing car makers from installing carplay and android auto. Hyundai already does this. Carplay isn't hardware, it's software. For that matter it's software that runs on a standardized OS which most infotainment systems already use, QNX. It was originally developed…

You can have a car with android auto, the standard infotainment, and carplay.... Hyundai already offers this.

QNX is an OS already widely adopted by most infotainment systems, it was actually developed by Blackberry.

Why?

Carplay is an app that runs on most existing infotainment systems.... putting carplay in a car gives an iOS user the ability to use that interface instead. It does not however replace the existing infotainment system..... so if you don't have an iPhone you can still use the infotainment system exactly as you always…

Then lucky for you, you can still use the Auto makers nav system, regardless of wether the car has carplay or not.

Carplay is an application that runs on QNX, the OS used by most infotainment systems. Same applies for android auto.

For some reason a lot of commenters seem to think this is some apple/google holy war... on the other side of it i think auto makers don't want to relinquish control of their infotainment experience. Thinking either that they can do better, or that letting apple/google do it for them admits how horrible they are....

Hey! That sounds kinda like what android auto and carplay do... let the infotainment screen act as a display for your android/apple device.

For the record, Carplay is an application which runs on QNX, an operating system already used by most infotainment systems.

Carplay is an application that runs on Blackberry's QNX operating system... the operating system used by most infotainment systems. Apple actually has zero control whatsoever on what the carmakers do with the infotainment system when an apple device isn't paired and streaming the carplay UI to the headunit.

If you don't like carplay, don't use it. The car's infotainment system will function exactly like it did before if you don't pair your phone.

You literally described android auto and carplay. The only difference is your phone won't mirror it's ui exactly, it will mirror a automative optimized version.... otherwise that is EXACTLY what these are.

Considering they won that case, they weren't the only people who thought that...

Right? It makes me so mad. The number of "Good! Fuck Apple! I don't want to have to buy an iPhone to drive my car!" type comments is killing me.

" that can easily accommodate phones and tables."

Or in some cases it seems it's OEM+Apple... which if you have an Android device is kind of annoying, but hardly Apples fault.

Okay, lets remove the whole iBullshit from your argument. Android provides Android Auto, which for all intents and purposes, is the same. If you have apple bias, please just fuck off.

Carplay is not a proprietary head unit software. Almost any car that gets it will still have the same horrible "60% of the time" bluetooth support it once had, and if we're lucky they'll also have android auto.