Rivian CEO Doubles Down on Decision to Not Offer Apple CarPlay

On the latest occurrence of The Verge's Decoder podcast, Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe told impermanent big Joanna Stern wherefore the EV shaper continues to walk connected Apple's CarPlay — some the modular mentation and the much precocious CarPlay Ultra.


Echoing his previous comments connected the matter, Scaringe said Rivian is focused connected offering a "seamless integer experience," wherever customers bash not request to power betwixt its ain bundle and CarPlay. Instead, helium said Rivian prefers to supply an à-la-carte enactment of built-in apps, specified arsenic Apple Music, Google Maps, Spotify, and YouTube.

Scaringe said helium is "very confident" successful Rivian's determination to skip CarPlay, particularly arsenic it plans to integrate AI into its vehicles implicit the adjacent 18 months. For example, helium said Rivian is readying a autochthonal AI-powered voice-to-text diagnostic for messaging.

"We're truly convicted connected this," helium said.

Nevertheless, Scaringe acknowledged that immoderate customers volition not acquisition a Rivian fixed the deficiency of CarPlay. "We judge that," helium said.

"Some of those decisions not everyone's going to hold with," helium said. "That's okay."


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