Hey don’t knock it until you’ve tried Apple’s equivalent (wireless CarPlay) which has a 3 second buffer since they decided to use Wi-Fi for audio. Imagine if every time you play or pause or change tracks you have to count to three in your head before it responds.
Yes, I’m bitter. Somehow the video and touch are lag-free 1 but the audio is on a delay. I’d love to have regular Bluetooth audio be used.
Wait, what? Wifi? Does that mean that a car that has CarPlay must also have Wifi that can act as an access point, and do some sort of automatic connection negotiation when the phone is plugged in and CarPlay is activated? That seems... terrible.
Wireless CarPlay didn't show up until several years after the original USB-based CarPlay, which is still around and there may still be new vehicles on the market which only support the USB-based CarPlay. Wireless CarPlay starts with a Bluetooth connection which is then used to negotiate the higher-bandwidth WiFi link. Neither CarPlay nor Android Auto can operate on Bluetooth alone, because the video data that needs to be streamed far exceeds what Bluetooth can handle.
Yes, I’m bitter. Somehow the video and touch are lag-free 1 but the audio is on a delay. I’d love to have regular Bluetooth audio be used.