FWIW Teslas infotainment works better than CarPlay
I don’t remember which specific brands had CarPlay and which ran their own infotainment systems, but I remember a couple years ago visiting dealerships of BMW/Mercedes/Honda/Toyota/Kia/Subaru/Ford and walking away either relieved that the car had CarPlay or internally cursing at their first-party infotainment system and promising myself to not even bother trying next time.
CarPlay and Android Auto give you the choice of your own app and full integration with the rest of your listening life.
And to be fair I prefer waze, not just because it makes driving simpler, but the community feeling you get by marking stopped cars or other obstructions on the road for others to pay attention to.
Unless automakers organize and come together to build a common os/ui layer, I don’t see apps like that ever being present in official infotainment systems.
And audio book apps change all the time too - local variants with local libraries, language learning apps etc. There is quite the variety of stuff you could do in a car.
And even if you want to use only audio and maps, then there are still a selection of audio streaming providers and map providers around.
Plus CarPlay it's pretty unstable and requires cable on some cars.
camping hiking etc bring me places without reception.
driving between towns here (BC, canada) often mean long stretches of road without reception.
After all, it’s just a protocol to let your phone use the display (or part of it) as a second monitor.
It’s been proven time and time again that vertical integration is a massive money earner and you can bet that if Tesla were to release a smartphone then support for that in their cars would be a software update that follows immediately after. But since there’s no plans for a phone, the next best thing is a subscription-based infotainment system.
I pay for premium data only because of Spotify and live traffic. Which I wouldn't have to do if it had CarPlay.
Source? I cannot find a single reference to Apple collecting fees, much less onerous fees, for implementing CarPlay functionality.
Automakers don’t like CarPlay because it makes cars fungible. I like CarPlay because it makes cars fungible. Apple seems like it would give away CarPlay (at least for now) to broaden the reach of its platform.