Yeah... that’s a hard no to their products, then. I already don’t like how modern infotainment systems are integrated into cars, and bad implementations are a complete exercise in frustration, as I’m sure we’ve all experienced for a decade plus. Android Auto and Carplay are just now making dealing with them bearable,…

Yep.  As much as it sounds icky, I bet more people would be accepting of it if it was required to install their GM driving app to the phone in order to use AA/Carplay.  I wonder if Android or Apple have restrictions that would not allow for that, though.

This means that the system will display important and integral information regarding the vehicle and its battery. His argument is that this isn’t something that can be done with a phone projection system.

right? Give me a phone app that can interface with google/apple maps and is connected to the car. Boom, done. My Honda app can tell me when the oil needs to be changed, or what all the system alerts are on my wife’s Odyssey. Seems like this should be far easier than GM wants to make it.

I’m saying that. I will not even consider a car that doesn’t have phone projection.

Aside from being skeptical that GM, let alone most large car companies, is capable of of developing anything better than a “really good” infotainment system, GM will be alienating one of their largest customers - rental car companies and their customers. Whether you travel once a year or once per week, it is nice to…

While I certainly see the point that “holistic integration” has some benefits, it also becomes a weak point from a cybersecurity aspect unless GM is willing and able to take on the challenge of keeping everything up-to-date and ensuring security. Given just about every automaker track record here, including Tesla, I…

GM can’t serve you ads and make money off your data if you’re using Car Play or AA. This is an absolutely stupid move and deal breaker for me.

Yeah this is about subscriptions. What he isn’t saying in public yet is that the plan is for everything to be locked content, and he thinks people will just pony up the $30/month plus $10 here and there, and GM will be rolling in that sweet horizontal money. It will be a worse system and cost more, but they'll try…

There is no chance I will trust a $40k+ purchase on any automaker’s in house software. There are a lot of cell phone options and they literally change annually. Apple is well known for not playing with others and this guy wants us to believe the GM will dedicate resources for decades to both advance what will be and…

That’ll be a hard pass from me then. CarPlay is one of the must have features for me. I want my apps through a reasonable interface.

...your metric for how popular the announcement to drop the one of the most popular features in modern cars is whether there was a mass exodus of reservation holders that probably aren’t aware of it? Jesus, GM has their head up their own ass.

Every word out of this guys mouth is just gas lighting. The sole example of why he claims this system is “better” seems easily doable with a mirroring based system like AA/CarPlay.

Choice is a good thing and so is competition. If GMs interface is so great consumers will gravitate toward using it if they have the choice.

I feel like an in-car wifi connected phone app could do a lot of what GM wants to do with their proprietary system.

“I don’t know who you are. But I’m going to find you. And I’m a-gonna kill you.”

We’re supposed to hate everything Chris Pratt-related, except Guardians of the Galaxy, in which case we have to pretend he had nothing to do with its success.

Old Man Mario: “I’m getting too old for this shit. Time to save Peach for once and for all. This ends here! Bowser’s gotta die.”

But yeah I’m baffled by the very negative attitude that’s been in place for this movie pretty much since it was announced. Feels like a lot of people having opinions on shit they haven’t seen and/or had unrealistic expectations for.