I’m not proud of it by any stretch but I do shop Amazon. There’s a lot to say about that but the bottom line for me is that I simply don’t have time to do anything else.

I’ve tried units from Amazon, Best Buy, and now, a fourth, CPLAY2Air.

Ottocast is one of the ones that died. It’s actually the first one I bought because it is highly rated.

This isn’t about playing music. This is mainly about CarPlay for navigation, dealing with text messages, etc. I am extremely reluctant to replace the head unit: First, it would be expensive–a problem with what these gig companies pay. Second, I would lose some of the interface to the car itself.

This isn’t about playing music. This is mainly about CarPlay for navigation, dealing with text messages, etc. I am extremely reluctant to replace the head unit: First, it would be expensive–a problem with what these gig companies pay. Second, I would lose some of the interface to the car itself.

No, this is a 14. I never heard of “3D Touch” but it sounds like it would be completely unusable for me.

Clearly, you haven’t played with an Android lately. As @OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world pointed out, everybody’s imitating Apple.

The pinch to zoom and scrolling features generally work fine. I did explore the accessibility features and found nothing that addresses my need for easy predictability.

The reason I like the buttons is because I know what they do. And they do it every time.

The reason I hate the gestures is that I’ll think I’m doing one thing and get something completely different, often when I needed it to do the right thing five seconds ago.

I pine for those buttons.

I’m seeing the behavior consistently, regardless of app. It’s just wrong.

Like when I swipe from right to left. An app can have it’s own meaning for this gesture. The phone itself, two more, one to switch home screens, one to pull up the camera. I’ll be trying to use the app’s meaning and get the camera. This is not improving my efficiency.