Google and Apple Fight for the Car Dashboard - NYTimes.com

The (hopefully) oncoming arrival of Car Play and Android Auto to the mass market could signal a big change in the auto industry. Finally, companies are letting go of their clunky, in-house digital interfaces and letting in people who actually know what their doing.

The change is detailed in an article from the New York Times:

While automakers traditionally aimed to control all aspects of the infotainment experience — building their own closed-off, proprietary systems — the results were not always stellar. And the pace of technology meant a car’s hardware and software could become dated quickly.

In some cases, the systems carried what seemed to be needless costs, like an annual fee for updating map software — something unthinkable for any user of Google Maps or Apple Maps.

Toyota is one of the only holdouts left, but I suspect it will be to their detriment.

via Jalopnik