Rivian is bringing Apple Music with spatial audio to its CarPlay-less EVs

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I am among a team that supports “No Carplay is fine” as long as you don’t have to pay some dollars for it. Currently, I don’t think anyone offers.

It seems like an uphill battle to convince people to use your product over carplay, even without that hurdle. This won’t play out the way any of them want, Rivian, GM, or Tesla.

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I majorly agree with you, the only way I am paying for a car as a subscription is if I am subscribing to the car itself, like an auto-renewing lease minus the dealer headache. A monthly payment for some dash stuff doesn’t make any sense.

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I recently joined a few Tesla groups to get an understanding of the car before I consider buying one.

In Canada, the group members always complain of Spotify dropping off and maps not loading at all due to connectivity dropping.

CarPlay more or less solves all this, but nope. Elon is not interested in getting itt.

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In my opinion, I don’t need and I care less about car play.

I just want Spotify and maps via my phone to work seamlessly without having to pay for the privilege of using my data through my paid app in my car. That is all I want.

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Last month I was watching a drive-in movie in my Bolt and there was a Rivian next to me. When I got out to go to the bathroom I noticed something strange.

The audio coming from the Rivian was like a full second behind the movie. It must have a software-defined radio with a lag in it. In conclusion, don’t watch a drive-in if you own a Rivian because you will regret.

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I am surprised to see they have doubled down on this “we don’t need CarPlay” thing. This is one of the many reasons I don’t miss the R1S I sold almost immediately after purchasing it.

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I am quite impressed but it still does not put some effort into helping the problem that CarPlay-less vehicles have where they are a pain for non-regular drivers.

In case someone is staying over and needs to drive my Ariya for some reason, they can select Guest mode, plug in their phone, and have all their maps and music and everything without any further involvement.

Without the feature, they would need to choose between creating a profile and logging into umpteen things or driving like it’s 1995, which sucks.

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I am surprised that most of you guys have even sworn not to buy a car without Carplay. My big question is how did you all survive before CarPlay?

Of course, you survived, then what has changed from then to now? Just thinking out loudly don’t crucify me.

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This is exactly why no CarPlay is a dealbreaker for me. It doesn’t matter how cool and good the built-in software is, this crap is always going to end up happening.

If the guys are currently charging us to use Spotify or navigation we absolutely have no backup. We cannot just use our phone apps projected onto the screen, we have to pay their prices, or stop using the screen and return to using our phone on a little windshield mount.

I will take shit software but good CarPlay integration over amazing software but no CarPlay every single time. That is why my love for Volkswagen cars will never die, they have the best software but the CarPlay integration is amazing, free, and wireless, and they normally don’t software lock it behind some stupid premium connect package.

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OK, now what is the company going to do to replace all the other apps I currently use with CarPlay? In addition, are the apps kept in sync with my phone?

This are my worries currently.