At this point the horse is out of the barn. People want a connected center screen. Figure out how to do it in an open way if you must, but telling people not to want it doesn't work.
No its actually that those cars sell better. Specially if you look to China its even more true. Even in the US pickup trucks turn into luxery cars with lots of tech and gadgets.
I love how tech people always believe that what they dont like nobody likes and consumers are forced.
Most people simply don't give shit if things go over local networks or clouds. People like opening an app and seeing if somebody is stealing from their car. To prewarm the car from whereever they are. And so on and so on.
And its not actually what traditional car companies want. In fact, they are in panic mode because new companies like Tesla and car makers from China have interduced these things and costumers prefer prefer it.
So now they are rushing to catch up and often doing it badly.
