Why are many cars’ screens slow and laggy when a $400 phone can have a smooth performance?
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Simply put, many car manufacturers don’t care as much. They prioritize cost savings over outright performance and usability. It’s also not their core competency, so to speak. They don’t have teams of highly paid, talented software engineers, at least not at the scale that apple and google do.
Others have pointed out slower development cycles, and yes this does have an impact especially on the hardware. A 2023 model year car, even if it’s an all-new model, went into production a year ago, had parts sourced and spec’d a couple years ago, and was designed 3-5 years ago. So things like touchscreens and CPUs are already a good five years behind the latest technology. They can and do perform ota updates for software and firmware though, but some manufacturers do this better (and more often) than others.
That said, a five-year-old iPhone, still feels faster and more responsive than the latest car infotainment systems. That really goes back to the first point, that most car manufacturers simply don’t prioritize making them ultra responsive and fast. Some do pretty well though: Tesla and some of the higher-end luxury cars have pretty good systems.
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