Carmakers love CarPlay, no matter what GM thinks

[iMore.com]

GM has confirmed that it will not support CarPlay in its electric vehicles moving forward, but no other carmaker will be doing the same.

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[Annie_M]

Of course, they do! They would be foolish not to!

 

[Just_Me_D]

CarPlay is a big selling point for auto dealers, in my opinion, so why would an automaker risk losing out on prospective customers?

 

[Lee_Bo]

CarPlay is a big selling point for auto dealers, in my opinion, so why would an automaker risk losing out on prospective customers?

Maybe Google’s giving them enough $$$?

 

[EdwinG]

Meanwhile, GM is cutting 1 billion $ worth of employees through buyouts.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/gm-buyouts-layoffs-avoided-1.6801208

Another billion by simplifying cars. I don’t know, seems to me that it would be simpler to support streamed CarPlay and Android Auto than implementing your own solution with Alphabet inc.

 

[FFR]

Seems like gm know what they are doing if they want to harvest more driver data.

Rip gm electric cars.

 

[Ledsteplin]

Well, I don't plan to purchase an electric car of any kind any time soon.

 

[Ledsteplin]

Seems like gm know what they are doing if they want to harvest more driver data.

Rip gm electric cars.

All Samsung user data.