You can use all the apps you are familiar with and have already set up. Like you favourite maps software, your music subscription like Apple Music or Spotify, or things like podcast or audiobook apps, everything right on the big screen of the car.
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Hegar@kbin.social 8 months agoIf it doesn’t offer Apple CarPlay, I won’t even bother
Can I ask why, what's the benefit?
youRFate@feddit.de 8 months ago
Uprise42@artemis.camp 8 months ago
That and it performs better. I have a ‘22 Niro and the stock interface was laggy when it was new. Swipes would take seconds to register. But I pull up CarPlay and it just works. You’re splitting your attention while driving. While that’s already bad, having a slow UI makes you split attention longer and increases frustration which is also a bad thing to do behind the wheel.
beefcat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And it will still be usable in 5 years when you have a new phone and your car manufacturer has long since stopped providing free updates to the built-in maps.
LifeInOregon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It will still be usable, and it will be receiving software updates and improvements.
Hegar@kbin.social 8 months ago
Ok cool. I can do all that on my phone already though. So it's mostly just having a larger screen then?
SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Larger display with a better layout and steering wheel controls.
Resolved3874@lemdro.id 8 months ago
My personal truck doesn’t have Android auto or Apple car play (I thought it was something I could get when I bought it but turns out I was a year early, whoops) and my work truck has it. I 100% will not be buying any car that doesn’t have it as a feature. It’s not something I need all the time because for most drives just using Bluetooth is perfectly fine but if I want to use the GPS for anything Android auto and car play are just so much better than using your phone for that. Everything is kinda frivolous to though.
Albbi@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Stop looking at your phone while driving.
youRFate@feddit.de 8 months ago
Also allows me to use media controls on my steering wheel with my phone.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes. I don’t like to look at or touch my phone while I’m driving. Its dangerous. CarPlay makes it safer and easier to control my phone - from which I play my music and do my navigation. My current car has Bluetooth, so the music works, but I still have to use my phone to control it. Which as I said, I don’t like to do.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Main reason is that many apps have a separate CarPlay or Android Auto UI that is less distracting, more glanceable, etc.
It’s kind of hard to go back once you’ve lived with it for a a bit. It’s much more convenient. A simple phone mount feels kind of janky and distracting afterwords.
beefcat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
CarPlay (and Android Auto) are basically driving-oriented UIs that your phone pushes to the head unit in your car. This means you get a full touch screen UI with your maps and music apps of choice, plus other apps that support it.
It beats mounting your phone over an AC vent because the screen is bigger and the UI is actually designed to be safe to use while driving (fewer, bigger buttons, more use of screen edges and corners so critical functions can be activated without looking).
Car makers don’t like this, because it means users are less likely to pay subscription fees for their shitty built in services.
Albbi@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Just want to add on that my recent Mazda doesn’t have a touchscreen, but a control knob that works to control either AndroidAuto or Carplay. I’m so happy to not have a touchscreen in the car.