One of those silly little issues with inbuilt software that drives me insane is the number of times I’ve had to log back into Apple Music or Spotify (or one of the video services to occupy the kiddo while parked for extended duration).

That’s another one that phones have just solved with the integrated password manager. The friction of providing credentials on my other devices has been reduced, but all of a sudden I need to go hunting through that pwd manager, and hunting and pecking on the infotainment keyboard, to enter a 20+ char unique pwd that modern “best practices” has established. It got bad enough for a bit (swver changes resulting in needing to re-log in) that I stopped using all of these apps for 2-3yr on our Model Y because I got tired of having to do it.

It’s interesting one of the most sold accessories for a rivian vehicle is a phone mount that goes next to the huge main center screen.

I completely agree with you

In the end they treat a podcast like this as PR. "We're great". Elaborate rationalizations of their decisions.

How well does Pandora work for music?

Car manufacturer build infotainment never is.