I’ll remain open minded about this, but it seems unwise to go all-in with android and abandon Apple for even the most expensive cars. Are people who buy Cadillacs (who probably own iPhones) not going to mind not having CarPlay? Or will they buy a BMW or Mercedes instead?
When you’re dropping $75k on a car, you expect it not to have any compromises.
As other commenters have said, people dismiss $75k+ cars all the times for things like "this shade of exterior paint is too light/dark" or "I don't like how the shifter feels" or "this doesn't have ambient lighting."
In that context "this car won't integrate with your phone so you'll need to rely on shoddy BT at best" is a pretty major issue.
I think you misunderstood what they are doing. They are dropping both Carplay and Android Auto, the Android Equal of carplay.
Instead they are making the car platform based on Google Automotive with the play store so you can install any app you want natively.
Their argument is that they want to make the internal software as good or better. I'll remain open minded as well..but TBH I fully expect almost all car makers to do this. No sane company would spend billions making a product and then let some other company overlay over it and make all the money.
They're not going all-in with Android or abandoning Apple, they're phasing out both CarPlay AND Android Auto in favor of something entirely new (that just so happens to be built by Google).
They’re dropping Android Auto, the CarPlay equivalent.
They’re switching to Android Auto, the infotainment OS. Or is that Android Automotive? Or Android for Autos? Or Android Auto(motive?) OS, which is AAOS. Or something based on Android Open Source for cars or maybe Android Auto Open Source?
Which is not AOSP. Or Android. But kind of is.
I’m not in the Android world but I’m never sure what to call the car Android thing as opposed to the phone Android thing for use in cars.
Using Android Auto with your Android based auto. Sigh.
I give up. I’m going to go watch Apple TV on my Apple TV through the Apple made TV app.
When you’re dropping $75k on a car, you expect it not to have any compromises.