CarPlay Is Additive
Key takeaways
- In this interview — which I greatly enjoyed! — Nilay grills Wassym on all manner of issues.
- Car Play is a way to interact with your phone via your car’s infotainment.
- I literally will not buy a car that does not support CarPlay.
Back in March, Rivian’s Chief Software Officer, Wassym Bensaid, was interviewed by the excellent Nilay Patel for Decoder. If you’re not a Decoder listener, you should be. If you’re not a subscriber of The Verge, you should be. But that’s not what I’m here to talk about.
In this interview — which I greatly enjoyed! — Nilay grills Wassym on all manner of issues. The whole time, though, I was waiting for one topic: Car Play.
Car Play is a way to interact with your phone via your car’s infotainment. Our last three cars, the eldest of which was from the 2017 model year, have all had CarPlay. They make the experience of being in the car way way better. Any of the apps I really care about, and would want to interact with while on the road, have a bespoke CarPlay interface.