Kate Cox

Who gets to take 30% out of every single thing you buy on this interface?

And historically, the answer has been Apple.

I think Apple wants to keep winning that fight.

The car makers all know that they should not –

give up control of things like maps to Apple and Google.

They all know that they're bad at it and they're losing ground to companies like Tesla who are good at it.

Upstarts like Rivian think they will be good at it.

And then they are also making deals with Google to provide maps because they're not going to be good at making maps.

And so you just get 500 different competing interests all in a screen, in an interface people can see and understand and have feelings about.

And that's very unusual in tech.

Like, I would love to do 50 episodes on the Fediverse, but I can't make you care about the Fediverse.

Like, there has to be a thing that you care about.

And people are very passionate about cars, and they're very passionate about CarPlay, oddly.

Again, they're not passionate about Android Auto.

They're passionate about CarPlay.

And so you just see here's this fight, this clash of titans.

And in the center of it is something consumers care about a lot.

So I personally agree with Joseph Quinn here, who says CarPlay is a crutch.

It is a crutch.

And it's a crutch because the car makers are lazy, and they allowed Apple this big inroad into their product.