I will say one good thing about the UI on this Buick SUV. A UI so bad that two people at the rental car exit gate couldn't figure out how to get it to display the mileage. A UI so bad that when I discovered that the mapping software was unreadable, I had to pull off to the side of the road in order to figure out how to tell it to shut up and stop giving me directions. And that good thing is that the two control knobs underneath the display are close enough, and the angle of the screen is deep enough, that a large phone can pretty securely rest on it and cover up their display.

@mapto It was not my choice. Or rather, they said they would eventually get me what I ordered, but I didn't feel like waiting any longer (three and a half more hours to drive, and getting in after 1am) and said I'd take "that smaller one over there". If I'd known it was a Buick, or that it didn't have CarPlay, I would have waited.

But seriously, these are the companies that think they're going to replace iOS and Android in their cars?

@nazgul @mapto Selling to people my mothers generation who can barely use a computer and can’t really use a smart phone

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