Originally Posted by sn_85

People don't want a full, unlocked android tablet experience in a vehicle headunit. It's too cumbersome and isn't user friendly. It's like when tablets came out the android community wanted to create a full desktop PC experience on the tablet. That didn't work out well for android tablets which is why Android OS is basically dead on tablets. Whereas Apple focused more on the mobile aspect of it and essential owns the tablet market because of ease of use.

This is the same thing. When I'm driving I don't want a tablet experience nor even a phone experience on my headunit. It needs to be very basic and simple to avoid distractions. Companies like Alpine, Pioneer, Sony focus on simplicity rather than running a rooted android OS. The more things it tries to do the less optimized and the slower the unit runs. I think there's a very small minority that wants or needs the capability of a rooted android OS in a car.