It’s a little silly, but it avoids the complexity of the car needing to describe every feature to CarPlay. It’s very hard to create an abstraction that allows for any capability, setting, message to be displayed and interacted with.
For instance, some 4x4’s have 2D inclinometers. Modern trucks have all sorts of crazy optimizations for towing.
Requiring CarPlay to understand and adopt new car-specific features gets crazy.
Making CarPlay a system that runs apps provided by the car is also crazy complex.
I have no doubt we’re heading that direction, but it is such a more complicated system for marginal benefit that it’s not surprising we’re stuck at a plateau where it works for 80% of scenarios.
For instance, some 4x4’s have 2D inclinometers. Modern trucks have all sorts of crazy optimizations for towing.
Requiring CarPlay to understand and adopt new car-specific features gets crazy.
Making CarPlay a system that runs apps provided by the car is also crazy complex.
I have no doubt we’re heading that direction, but it is such a more complicated system for marginal benefit that it’s not surprising we’re stuck at a plateau where it works for 80% of scenarios.