>It is a cell phone basically and needs a monthly plan just like your phone. Do you have free internet on your phone? No. So, don't expect free internet in your car, either.
carplay does not include an LTE radio of any kind. It's a spec to allow an iphone to display content on the screen in your car over a lightning cable. Any internet data is transferred by the iphone using the existing data plan you already pay for. There are no ongoing licensing fees from apple and no reason it would cost a car maker any money to have it keep working. carplay works perfectly fine in cars that don't have their own cell radio connections.
If you boil it all the way down carplay is like having an hdmi port in your dash that displays your phone on the car's screen. If your bluray player had an annual fee for hdmi to keep working you would be annoyed at paying that too since there is nothing about an hdmi port that it makes sense to charge an annual fee for.
carplay does not include an LTE radio of any kind. It's a spec to allow an iphone to display content on the screen in your car over a lightning cable. Any internet data is transferred by the iphone using the existing data plan you already pay for. There are no ongoing licensing fees from apple and no reason it would cost a car maker any money to have it keep working. carplay works perfectly fine in cars that don't have their own cell radio connections.
If you boil it all the way down carplay is like having an hdmi port in your dash that displays your phone on the car's screen. If your bluray player had an annual fee for hdmi to keep working you would be annoyed at paying that too since there is nothing about an hdmi port that it makes sense to charge an annual fee for.