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Originally Posted by XMetal
I understand how Carplay and AndroidAuto work. My point was why make things much more complicated than what it needs to be? Why would you want to "throw" your phone's apps onto your car's display and control it through it's clunky iDrive/MMI/touch controller when you can do it all on the phone itself, which is not much further of a reach or distraction than using Carplay and AndroidAuto? Then again, may be I'm an old farts and just don't understand the appeal of Carplay and AndroidAuto  |
I'm also an old fart, but big on User Interface. Using the phone as a controller (which I currently do for Spotify and for Waze) is too distracting in my opinion. There are no touch haptics/feedback and you are too drawn to look "down" at your phone and away from the windshield. Even with a clunky touch controller, you've got the graphics high on the dashboard and you can still somewhat keep your eye on the road.