In 15 years, your car will still be around but there is a very good chance that neither CarPlay nor Android Auto will exist anymore.
You're going in the right direction - this is slightly less stupid than having something like a Pandora client permanently installed in your car such that it cannot and will not ever be updated once the next model year comes out and Pandora makes breaking API changes or ceases to exist.
The only reasonable thing to do is provide long-lived open standard interfaces like the 3.5mm analog connector. Anything else is deliberately anti-consumer planned obsolescence. It doesn't matter if you think "Android is the platform of the future" or something. It probably isn't. Don't tie something with the release-replacement cycle of a car to a disposable device like a smartphone.
This puts things in perspective, I appreciate that. However, Ford (and others) seem to already tie their cars to one or another type of transient tech. Like the above-mentioned Inrix for maps, or my Pioneer stereo phoning home to some unidentified service to get the traffic. Is Inrix going to be around longer than Google or the 3.5mm jack? I'd rather automakers provided something like a simple, reliable smartphone docking station, with speakers, mics (don't skimp on those like Ford does), and maybe some kind of a display integration, and leave the UI and the smarts to the fast-moving mobile market. But they seem to prefer to force-feed you those crappy, sometimes insanely overpriced systems and web services that still don't seem likely to outlive Google or the car itself.
In 15 years, your car will still be around but there is a very good chance that neither CarPlay nor Android Auto will exist anymore.
You're going in the right direction - this is slightly less stupid than having something like a Pandora client permanently installed in your car such that it cannot and will not ever be updated once the next model year comes out and Pandora makes breaking API changes or ceases to exist.
The only reasonable thing to do is provide long-lived open standard interfaces like the 3.5mm analog connector. Anything else is deliberately anti-consumer planned obsolescence. It doesn't matter if you think "Android is the platform of the future" or something. It probably isn't. Don't tie something with the release-replacement cycle of a car to a disposable device like a smartphone.