Because GM sucks.

People aren't asking for much. People just want their phone navigation and music controls displayed onto the infotainment. Won't consider any car that cannot afford me this tiny bit of convenience for the sake of nickel and diming me.

And if every car manufacturer starts forcing me to adopt their own stupid software I'll just buy a fucking phone holder.

And GM has shitty reliability anyways.

Why I like Android Auto:

• I can plan my route on my phone at home and see the map on the big screen instead the little phone ui, or worse putting in the adress manually with the keyboard wheel in Korean instead of copy and pasting it from the Element chat
• I already have all my music on my phone, I don't want to copy and organize it again for hours in my car
• I already have integration with many apps on my phone, I don't want to set everything up again on the car, especially I can't copy and paste my long ass passwords from my KeePassXC into the car and need to painstakingly put in every password with their clunky keyboard, if they even have a keyboard.

I could go on forever. But as long as I can connect bluetooth and set up my phone somewhere so I can see the map while driving I'll be OK. The worst part, at work what I do is car infotainment system software, but it never has any of the features I would want from a car.

Money.

There I wrote the whole article in one word.

Could it be money?

It's money, isn't it?!

I can't wait to get a rental car that doesn't allow me to use my own maps.

I'll just take a bluetooth battery powered speaker in my car if they keep locking it down

My take on Android Auto (I'm sure everyone wants to hear)

pros:

• free to choose the maps app you want (OsmAnd, Organic Maps, Google Maps or anything)
• stream music for the app you want
• decent voice control for maps and spotify
• decent integration with some EV charging apps, you can find and initiate chargers from the dashboard
• you can write your own Android Auto apps

cons:

• Android Auto app is very invasive, polluting phone with stupid notifications
• the standard is shit. Android Auto doesn't work work with Android Go phones but it's not specified anywhere in the documentation, wireless Android Auto only works with latest android but it's also not specified anywhere
• it's controlled by Google and there are no alternative implementations

My solution so far is to use cheap, secondary phone for AA (which was hard to find because of the stupid limitations). If someone would create a open AA client not controlled by Google I would put it on my primary phone. AA should now work with Graphene OS so I may try to set it up in separate profile some day.

I won’t buy a car without CarPlay.

My current car has it and I love it. So I imagine Android users feel the same way.

If there is truly no option, then my phone is getting the window/airvent mount option.

I’ll never subscribe to their bs.

They think they'll get more money, but they don't realize that people won't even consider their cars due to lack of integration. I recently bought a used car for my kid. One of the nicer ones I looked at didn't work with his phone, so we eliminated it from consideration.

the only integration i want between my phone and my car is a 3.5mm audio jack. i'm driving a 2016 right now and am dreading replacing it because i doubt i'll be able to find anything without this "infotainment" crap. i thought i had read that those were being phased out because consumers unilaterally hated them, so reading the opposite here is a huge bummer