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@jamiemccarthy @nazgul I suppose you're all apple users, so you probably don't know what the Google equivalent keeps disconnecting unexpectedly. So, there is much room for improvement, and hopefully somebody from the hardware guys would arrive at the idea of an open standard
@mapto @jamiemccarthy I understand their fear, because the nextgen version doesn't just do maps, it hooks into the system and manages everything. Which makes sense, wouldn't you love your nav app to know when to find you a gas station, and give you voice access to everything? But it's also greed, they want to nickel-and-dime you with paid subscriptions to your heated seats and garbage like that. So they're balking at the new CarPlay.
Unfortunately all of that makes it unlikely that they'll provide an open API to Apple and Google.
Maybe the EU will step in. The US certainly isn't in a regulatory mood.