alt Hacker NewsThis is what I came to the comments for. The post didn't mention price a single time. It's not that expensive to retrofit CarPlay into any vehicle, and a 166% delta is hard to explain away with a single feature that can be retrofitted later.
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izacus • today at 8:25 PM
79% of car buyers explicitly said they won't buy a car without carplay: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/22/apple-carplay-could-be-a-tro...
So the numbers check out and there's no need for you to find the blame elsewhere.
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FrustratedMonky • today at 8:58 PM
Joe Blow doesn't want to have to 'retrofit', they want to plug in and go.
Buying a car is scary enough for most people, figuring out how to trust some unaffiliated rando to do work on the most expensive or second most expensive thing they own is truly intimidating.