Becasue there are things in a vehicle that are HUGELY more important than CarPlay perhaps?
Maybe a safety option is on the list that could save the life of a loved one?
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General Motors Hires Former Apple Executive to Lead Software After Announcing Plans to Nix CarPlay
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Maybe a safety option is on the list that could save the life of a loved one?
I will not own a car that does not have CarPlay in it.
Easy enough. The creeps at GMC want part of the action mining users' personal data like Google does. After a Suburban and two Yukon XLs I am now done with GMC.
I can't imagine myself buying any current GM car but not having CarPlay is not so bad. My current car did not have it but Sony sells a CarPlay radio for $299. Swap out the old FM radio CD player and now have CarPlay and a backup camera.
Check out Best Buy and the like, retrofitting Apple CarPlay is not expensive.
Check out Best Buy and the like, retrofitting Apple CarPlay is not expensive.
The do not want to stop CarPlay, they want part of the corrupt action as corrupt Google corruptly scrapes users' personal data.
Don't worry, all wrongs will be righted once Tim Sweeney sues GM for not allowing the Epic Games store in their cars.
This will be the first car manufacturer to need a service status page:
music — available
electric windows — available
air conditioning — unavailable
steering — failures reported in Virginia
Good luck to him but if they don’t offer car play their products are not on my wish list.
Good on Farley and Ford for realizing folks prefer CarPlay over OEM also ran solutions.
Good on Farley and Ford for realizing folks prefer CarPlay over OEM also ran solutions.
Let’s hope the taxpayers don’t have to pay for their inevitable second bailout.
Yes it is about money and yes it is lame. Google makes $billions scraping our personal data and GM will share in collecting and selling everything about drivers and their vehicles. Huge opportunity for corrupt theft of personal data.
Nonsense. The creeps at GM that will be sharing users' personal data with Google for $$ might claim that, but it would be pure BS.
Yup. But far more than simply selling users' GPS location data. All of users' data will go through the Infotainment System. GMC should call it their User Data Resell System.
Why can we have an app with the same UI/UX on our iPhones since they need to be plugged in any way for them to work? A landscaped version would look amazing on the phone itself.
Yes! I'm waiting for the time I have to send a PayPal payment to roll my windows down!
So you're willing to pay for something you already pay for? This is double dipping. You have a cellphone you pay for your subscriptions you have a cell plan. You should not be paying again for the right to use what you have. You also should not have your person information sold for something you are spending 20K plus on.
Car compaines aren't software companies. Say it again. Not Software companies. You already pay the software company Apple/Streaming Provider/Cell Providers. The car is a car. That's the market they chose. My car will interface with my phone in a convient fashion. If you don't want to offer that someone else will.
I use Amazon Music via CarPlay daily for my long commute. I make phone calls via Carplay/Siri. I do not pay extra to do these things. These things are Hands Free. You sit there and talk about safety but you want people fumbling around with bluetooth and a mount to put the phone near the steering wheel that's likely going to fall while driving. All to do something that can be built into the car.
The problem was already solved. People aren't going to pay for things they already pay for unless they are stupid. People will continue to use what they already have on their phone. This is just going to reduce safety and move backwards. All so GM/Telsa/Whoever else can harvest data to make them undeserved money and double dip charge for things people already pay for once again undeserved profit.
Any of these companies could have their own infotainment system and tether to your phone to use the Cell Plan you already pay for. Tesla could let you log into the subscriptions you already have. They are doing this for one reason money. There is no logical reason to do this. There is no customer benefit. It's pure greed. They are looking at what people are willing to pay for and making you pay again. They are getting kickbacks not including every streaming service and not letting you use subscriptions you already have.
Do not support this behavior.
Tacomas and 4 Runners, especially the older gen ones are great trucks . There is a reason they hold their value.
I had a 1998 Grand Cherokee. The one with the bullet proof straight 6. Unfortunately it went underwater in a hurricane. I miss that truck. I mainly used it as a surf vehicle but if not for that hurricane Im positive I'd still have it.
A buddy of mine had a few, his dad liked to work on them, and said even after 250k the engines were always running smooth as long as you did proper oil maintenance.
Perhaps you're right. I wish car manufacturers like GM would just focus on improving the core "mission" of a vehicle -- driveability, reliability, etc.
Apple doesn't charge car manufacturers fees, though that doesn't mean car manufacturers necessarily get it for free. It might require additional components in some cases, I imagine.
GM is not chasing reduced costs here but recurring revenue. For me at least, it's going to backfire. I haven't bought a GM lately, but the majority of my cars over my life have been GM. And I won't buy another.
(CarPlay is funded through iPhone sales.)
You'll just have to buy an old cherry red Stingray (or Sting Ray, if it's a C2).
I’m just thinking of future rental cars from Chevrolet. My last rental was a Subaru SUV that had CarPlay. It made navigating Hawaii a lot easier than having to find a suction cup mount to hold my phone. They really are banking on people using their ecosystem.