Apple’s more immersive carplay divides the automotive industry

Apple’s new generation carplay divides the automotive world in the middle. Several car manufacturers are impatiently aligning to adopt the new ultra immersive carplay, which includes more screens and includes integrated vehicle functionality such as speedometers, heating and cooling and radio functions. Others categorically refuse to allow it, while others adopt a waiting approach.

Here is where each of the car manufacturers is currently on Carplay Ultra:

We are still missing big, like Volkswagen and Toyota, two of the world’s largest car manufacturers in the world. I contacted both and I will update this post if I hear.

Carplay Ultra is a huge challenge for the automotive industry. Several surveys show that customers love it, use it frequently on the integrated systems of their car and would be less likely to buy a future vehicle that did not allow Carplay. But car manufacturers are Spend huge sums of money In the development of new generation software systems that allow live updates and approach their customers for more digital services. And they are reluctant to leave Apple to slap their own software in addition to that.

Sources indicate to Financial time That car manufacturers are impatient to define clear standards on data sharing with Apple before agreeing to allow Carplay Ultra.