[Martinjlm]

I have two cars with CarPlay and two without. For the two without I have two different experiences. One of them, to be honest I don't drive that much. My wife drives it. She's fine with no CarPlay because her Nav system is, in her words, better than Waze. In the other, my Monday - Friday car, I find that the Google Built-in system does 95% of what CarPlay does and the other 5% I could care less about. Waze is available in the App Store and I have it installed, but the Google Maps that is resident is BETTER than Waze. Both of my phones (one iPhone, one Android) connect seamlessly pretty much by the time my butt hits the seat. And I can switch between them at the touch of an icon. That's today's system. What GM is saying they are doing with the next system is a magnitude shift beyond that with capability beyond what CarPlay / Android Auto can do today. So I have zero concern with not having CP/AA available in my next vehicle.

The 5%? I can send text messages to anyone in my phone's contact list and I can receive text messages from anywhere. When I receive text messages I can say "play last text message" and it will play it. What it CANNOT do that I think CP does is I cannot say "Play text messages from Bob Bobberson". Thing is, I can do that from Siri, so technically, I haven't even lost that functionality. I just have to do it differently. Even though I honestly never do that anyway.