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You could very well enable CarPlay, and have your own infotainment system if you were genuinely concerned about Apple “controlling” your ecosystem. But they definitely just want to force customers to pay for their own system.
But if they have both, people will realize how shitty their system is, and not use it. By making it the only available system, people have no choice, and will just settle for it, because they otherwise like the vehicle.
Many times, the car manufacturer includes it for "free" for rental cars, in an attempt to get people to try it and then want it on their own vehicle. SiriusXM does it for a lot of rental cars.
Sure they will! For an extra fee of course. I have a RAM, and they email me all the time telling me that I should update my navigation system for just $200. Unless they somehow add wireless CarPlay, I am not updating.
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I don't know of the process, but it's similar on my 2020 RAM. They want me to upgrade for something like $250 to get new maps, and minor fixes, after spending $80k on my truck.