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Can you imagine the shit show that would happen if a developer installed a video playing app on his own CarPlay device and he got in accident?

All car manufacturers are very careful about what you are allowed to do on driver accessible controls on dashboard gadgets.

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It'd be only the driver's fault, not anyone else's. How is this any different from playing a video from the phone and either holding it, or putting it on the dash?

Because it is illegal in most states.

https://driving laws.aaa.com/tag/video-screens/

My car won’t even let you pair your phone to Bluetooth while you’re driving.

Even if it weren’t illegal, we live in a very litigious society.

If there is an actual security risk, availability of those APIs could be tied to signing the necessary contracts which make the developer accept the liability. But we were discussing the special API used by zoom. No safety risk here.

There is a privacy risk. Apple can’t make the developer accept liability. A contract between Apple and a developer is not going to stop Apple from being sued.

Even if the contract then said the developer would have to reimburse Apple, how would Apple recoup a multi million dollar judgment from an unknown developer?

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