Further web surfing has turned up a whole lot of unhappy Audi owners. My favorite of the bunch:
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I was ready to pay cash for a 2012 a5 today. But then I found out it doesn't do bluetooth audio streaming, and there's no easy accessory for it. ALL of my music is available streaming - i don't want to carry anything other than my phone. Won't buy a 40k car just to lose all my music. This sucks. Can't believe a company that engineers such nice cars would fail so badly at engineering a modern audio system. I test drove a $22k Ford yesterday that did this. Sigh.

In short: in the modern era, the car is an accessory for your phone, not the other way around.