Comment on The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions
Docus@lemmy.world 8 months agoAccording to the article, apple car play and android auto also require a subscription. So no, they don’t give you the choice.
Comment on The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions
Docus@lemmy.world 8 months agoAccording to the article, apple car play and android auto also require a subscription. So no, they don’t give you the choice.
DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Subscription to a cell carrier maybe? I’ve used Android Auto in particular a bunch. It connects to my phone and uses Google maps, which is non subscription. Admittedly it’s been a bit, I suppose Google could have crippled it since I last used it, but I have my doubts. My mother uses it regularly and I guarantee she’d be throwing a fit if she needed to pay to do so.
Docus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nope. Read the first line of the article. Apple CarPlay won’t work unless you pay Audi a subscription fee. I’m not surprised, I had an A3 a few years ago and that already had subscriptions built in. But they came with a 3 year license and Audi UK would extend that for a year at a time, free of charge as they had not worked out how to charge for it. They have worked it out now.