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You probably want a car with Android Auto instead of Android Automotive. Yep, it's totally dumb that those are two separate things with very similar names. The former is a CarPlay equivalent, where your phone projects a screen. The latter is logging into Google directly from the car independent of your phone.

Ughh I knew the difference and it still auto completed “Android Automative”

Too bad if the DRM-server that knows that you paid for Apple CarPlay/Google Auto is turned off…

Apple's eventual stop of supporting CarPlay is guaranteed.

Tesla going bankwupt - much less so.

CarPlay is basically just a second screen for iOS.

If you have a first gen iPad from 2010, it still works with modern AirPlay and AirPrint devices.

If you have a car that supports the old iPod protocol where you can see what’s playing and change the “song”, it will still support modern music and podcast playing apps on iOS devices.

> If you have a car that supports the old iPod protocol

I've actually tried that few weeks ago and it didn't work. Car was from 2008 or so.

It worked on my old 2011 Chevy Sonic. Yes I was very surprised