> Why on earth I would want my car to take over the full functionality of my phone is beyond me.
I've owned several cars thus far in my life, and so far, the functionality of every single head unit has been changed exactly zero times since the car left the line. When CDs became a thing, I had to add a CD player if I wanted to listen to them. When XM and Sirius came out, I had to add something to use them. Who knows what's going to come next? But if my phone is in the driver's seat, so to speak, then I can expect new updates just about every year now going forward, with new features coming this Fall with iOS 11. My 2017 Civic at least has a chance of being updated since the head unit runs Android underneath, but odds of Honda ever updating it are pretty slim.
My iPhone doesn't become a brick when I plug it in to my car. CarPlay is basically just a second screen - if I launch an app (while parked safely) that uses CarPlay, the dashboard comes to live with that view. If not, it sits at the home screen. But I can still use the phone however I'd like.
I've owned several cars thus far in my life, and so far, the functionality of every single head unit has been changed exactly zero times since the car left the line. When CDs became a thing, I had to add a CD player if I wanted to listen to them. When XM and Sirius came out, I had to add something to use them. Who knows what's going to come next? But if my phone is in the driver's seat, so to speak, then I can expect new updates just about every year now going forward, with new features coming this Fall with iOS 11. My 2017 Civic at least has a chance of being updated since the head unit runs Android underneath, but odds of Honda ever updating it are pretty slim.