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Originally Posted by walketed
You realize that iDrive 9 is based on Android right? 95% of mobile phones in the world use Android. Apple BTW is based on Unix OS, it's just a template on top of the OS.
Do you use Apple maps? Apple search? Apple is a marketing company, really good, but far from being a top notch technology company.
I think BMW after not supporting Android initially, they saw their mistake and turned that decision around. Now they are basing the whole iDrive platform on Android OS!
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1) Using Apple Car play you can still use google maps.
2) As per automotive operation systems, it is a fight between linux (tesla is using it) & Android Automotive (GM/Ford and almost all Chinese car companies), it is extremely hard for a car manufacturer to maintain an in-house automotive OS, it's all about the community and their eco systems.
A universal android automotive operation system has great benefits/advantage to smaller car manufacturers but it makes decisions even harder for bigger names, so they will have to support both in quite long time which doubles their efforts and costs.