Carplay shouldn't replace a manufacturers infotainment, it should be in addition to. I don't want CarPlay taking up the entire Tesla infotainment, Tesla's is far superior to CarPlay. But again, it isn't a competition in my opinion. It should be there to give a developer for an app on my phone ability to have an interaction point in the car. Developers don't want to learn 200 different ways of developing an app on 10 different ecosystems. CarPlay and Android auto give them an easy, familiar platform that they can develop on without having to know anything about that car manufacturers infotainment system.
Anyone saying "CarPlay is dead" or "Tesla's is better so we don't need CarPlay" is missing the point and has clearly never developed software before.
well said. it makes 0 sense for tesla to re-make 10 different music apps on their own like with spotify. even after all this time, spotify is still buggy and doesn't have feature parity with native. nobody has 10 years to wait for tesla to implement it properly.
and tesla currently doesn't have the competence or skillset to implement their own app store. assuming developers would even want to develop for such a small market. carplay/android auto fix this gap.