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Originally Posted by NeverEnough007
I wasn’t going to pay either way. CarPlay is only nice to have for Waze and that’s it. Music apps all work via Bluetooth. The annoyances far outweighed the benefits. I sit in traffic for my commute. Opening a web link to a bring a trailer auction for example forces the audio to move from whatever I am listening to over to the web audio that doesn’t exist. I am guessing the active countdown tricks the system into thinking something is playing. Same with using Shazam. The use of microphone automatically thinks I am trying to give a command and kills the music I am trying to Shazam. I believe these are Apple issues.
I am guessing BMW told Apple their prices were too high, Apple wouldn’t negotiate, and BMW said, okay, we will charge for it and see what the take rate is to prove or disprove the value add Apple claims and charges for. Apple likely wouldn’t like the results so, they were likely more willing to negotiate to avoid the bad press of dismal take rates.
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I'm pretty sure Apple doesn't charge for CarPlay at all, it's the development cost for BMW, imagine you're the BMW engineer who has to support this 15 years down the road...
though most likely scenario is they (or all the manufacture for that matter) just going to drop support whenever they feel it's not worth it... (like iOS xxx ver to iOS ver yyy kind of continuous rolling window)