GM really means: "generally malfunctions," and so will their infotainment system.
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Apple Says CarPlay Now Available in Over 800 Vehicle Models as GM Plans to Phase Out Support in EVs
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This is just backwards, people should not have to pick a car based on what Phone ecosystem they are in. Just support making a little window on the screen for people with other phones! Seriously not that hard!!!!
How big is a GM market share in the US? For me CarPlay is a big deal and if I had to choose between two similar cars the one with CarPlay would definitely win.
Absolutely agree. No car without CarPlay.
Apple is 100% correct its my first thing i look for. Absolute must have. I have a few friends that thought it would not be a big deal to buy a car with out and seeing them struggle only affirms my choices. At this point in the game Wireless Carplay is my absolute must have. Sorry GM wont be getting one of your sub par cars.
“We are very comfortable with our decision,” GM vice president of software, Scott MillerMiller told The Verge. “We are going to evolve and learn, and I think we are going to be in good shape here.”
Sure... You (GM) are going to learn just how bad a decision eliminating CarPlay is for GM. No CarPlay, no purchase for me for any brand.
Sure... You (GM) are going to learn just how bad a decision eliminating CarPlay is for GM. No CarPlay, no purchase for me for any brand.
Unpopular opinion: Presumably GM knows what they're doing and would not take the step of removing CarPlay if market research showed it would actually sway decisions for consumers who have landed on a specific GM vehicle they want to purchase. That's all they care about. They don't really care about opinions on tech sites, most of them from people who aren't even in the market for a car.
To put it another way, you know how most of you love to bring up how noisy MR forums are with love for the iPhone Mini, but then when sales data comes in it's a tiny 5% or less? For GM that's this situation.
To put it another way, you know how most of you love to bring up how noisy MR forums are with love for the iPhone Mini, but then when sales data comes in it's a tiny 5% or less? For GM that's this situation.
GM is not Tesla. 'copying' this part of Tesla is not the reason they are succeeding.
I noticed a lot of major company's have been making stupid decisions lately thats alienating their user base. Is there something psychotic is happening in the boardrooms.
GM doesn't seem to be very good at long-range planning. They were a primary reason that trolley lines, once extremely popular with the public, were phased out. That was a big mistake, and this is just one more. They don't seem to care what the public wants or thinks.
I've been a very proud Chevy Car Owner for many years, between a Cavalier that got me across the country too many times to count, to a Malibu built so much like a tank that it saved my life when I was T-Boned and broke my wrist, to my now 5 year old Impala that's slowly showing signs that it's 5 years old..
I've sworn by Chevys for years. Years. By the time I DO end up getting another Car (or most likely SUV considering companies aren't selling cars anymore), it will now most likely be another brand. I'm at a loss.. I actually DID want to look at the Trailblazer, but this rules it all out for me.
I'm not sure how this will translate to GM over the course of years. By the time they get their stats and data, enough time will have passed to where people will have made their big ticket decisions already. Too bad...
I've sworn by Chevys for years. Years. By the time I DO end up getting another Car (or most likely SUV considering companies aren't selling cars anymore), it will now most likely be another brand. I'm at a loss.. I actually DID want to look at the Trailblazer, but this rules it all out for me.
I'm not sure how this will translate to GM over the course of years. By the time they get their stats and data, enough time will have passed to where people will have made their big ticket decisions already. Too bad...
And don't forget about all the data GM will be collecting on where you drive, how long you drive, where you go, how long you stay, etc. etc., all to also sell ads. The driver will be GM's new "product."
Whether it's CarPlay or Android Auto, both are superior to the crap that auto makers put out. A bespoke solution based on the phone's OS is always going to be better.
I said years ago (probably somewhere on these forums) that I wouldn't buy another car unless it had CarPlay. However my desire to go electric outweighed that when I ordered (about 7 years ago) and purchased (5 years ago) my first Tesla. While Tesla's interface isn't CarPlay, it now is really good and gets better all the time. I do wish they would add CarPlay and was glad when they did add Apple Music, but the lack of it wouldn't cause me to not get a Tesla again. However it would probably prevent me from getting any other EV that doesn't have CarPlay now. I most likely would have got a Rivian but I didn't want to go through the growing pains with their UI.
It sounds like a big mistake, but time will tell. GM had better have some excellent software.
When I bought a new car last year after owning my previous one for 15 years, CarPlay was high on my list of wants. I went through every other form of iPod/iPhone integration through the years, including cassette adapters and FM radio transmitters. Ugh.
When I bought a new car last year after owning my previous one for 15 years, CarPlay was high on my list of wants. I went through every other form of iPod/iPhone integration through the years, including cassette adapters and FM radio transmitters. Ugh.
When someone's used to using CarPlay, its favorites and settings and locations that are specific to the Phone- GM wants you to put all of that in the hands of Google & Spotify instead. Not being able to integrate the device I carry with me near 100% of the time I'm alive, it's just not something I'm going to do anymore with a car, and even Android Auto is better than some proprietary OS that limits your options.
I got a new GMC Sierra last year, which does have wireless CarPlay, thankfully. I will say, however, the native infotainment system is heavily integrated with Google... and it's a trainwreck. To describe it as "laggy" is a wild understatement. If this is the direction they're going, there's going to be a reckoning. The Google stuff (particularly where voice-activated navigation is concerned) is the only thing I dislike about the truck. For them to put all their eggs in that particular basket is just... dumb. If it were demonstrably superior to CarPlay, that would be one thing. But it's not.