@caseyliss "There’s no reason Rivian can’t have their bespoke and seamless experience .." - Logically this seems true..but in practice I think it creates challenges. Let's say Google maps via carplay was there day 1 on Rivian. It becomes that much harder to ever justify their internal maps are the next most important fire that needs funding. It creates a tricky incentive structure throughout the org chart. Short of a Steve Jobs like level of founder micro-managing..it could be hard to overcome.

@caseyliss Put another way...what is the incentive structure at the car companies that do support carplay to ever improve? It feels like many of them have largely just "given up" and assume that their infotainment experience from 2001 if "just fine" since nobody will really use that..they will all just use carplay/android auto. I think RJ (and others going down the non-carplay route) are so fearful of that, they are willing to risk maybe "overcorrecting" too far the other direction.