I remember Toyota put AGL on the Camry in 2018. Guess what? It was terrible. The system froze up and crashed all the time. So they finally caved and added Car Play support. Now their cars all support Android Auto as well.
Great! Now you have AGL in your car. First thing you doing is plug in your phone for Android Auto or Car Play anyway.
What car companies should focus on is adding things like wireless Car Play and Android support. Also Car Play supports multiple independent displays, which no auto manufacturer implements either.
To be clear here, CarPlay is not an OS. CarPlay (as is Android Auto) is an app that steams an interface to the car’s system.
It’s a replacement interface that runs on your iPhone, but it’s not an infotainment system. It doesn’t do any of the heavy lifting those systems have to do to make CarPlay possible.
Damn this is a hoot! Love that people are keeping these machines alive. I had a Mac LC with the Apple IIe card in college. After college I tried to keep it alive as long as possible. I connected a 56k modem to it to connect to the internet by PPP. I saw the modem lights flash on and get faster and faster, and then stop and come back on dribbling in slowly only to speed up and then stop again, over and over. I then learned that the LC didn’t have hardware flow control. I then admitted to myself I had to let go of the LC. :(
