General Motors Doubles Down on Removing CarPlay

Whatever reasons they claim, this has always been only about GM trying to charge monthly rents to their customers.

This is a major reason why I ended up with a Honda Accord after my Chevy Sonic died early last year. Well, that, and GM's nearly wholesale abandonment of the passenger car market. I wasn't in the market for an EV so it wouldn't have affected me directly at that point, but the company stance even then made me basically ignore them as an option.

I still have many thousands of points on a GM credit card that I'm not sure what to do with as they keep eliminating non-GM-related redemption options.

re: Joe Rosensteel's: "...Apple currently offers Apple Music apps for Tesla and Rivian ..."

I'd be stunned if the steaming PoS that is the Apple Music App on Tesla is actually coded by Apple Employees / Contractors. I (maybe wrongly) always assumed that it was a Tesla developed front end interacting with a very limited https://music.apple.com or something similiar.

A couple of years ago I'd thought my next car would probably be a GM. But not anymore.

If Ford starts to actually make cars again (as opposed to trucks and SUVs) I'll probably buy another Ford for my next vehicle. I love my C-Max (and its CarPlay support). Otherwise I'll probably go with Hyundai or VW or something.

There are lots of comments from people all over the internet this week saying that they will never buy a car without CarPlay, and that specifically means they will not even consider a GM car going forward. That makes perfect sense to me, I certainly feel that way myself.

Unfortunately, it seems like these comments probably aren't representative of general consumers. Over the past year GM has rocketed up to become the second ranked seller of EV vehicles in the US - behind only Tesla, another manufacturer that doesn't support CarPlay. So it seems like when actually putting down their dollars, consumers actually don't really care about CarPlay/Android Auto.

I sure hope this doesn't catch on with other manufacturers, but I'm afraid the lure of recurring revenue will be just too seductive. For now, my Genesis EV has fantastic CarPlay support, including navigation directions appearing in the heads up display and map display in both the center console and in the steering wheel cluster display. So I'm good for now, but I'm concerned about what options might be available when it's time to purchase my next vehicle. Like Michael, I'm also worried about choices when renting. Showing up in an unfamiliar city and then having to deal with a non-CarPlay nav system is a big step backwards.

On the other hand, I think if there wind up being only a couple of manufacturers supporting phone projection, that's going to be a big sales booster for them. In fact, I recently had a long conversation with a Chevy salesman at a local EV event and he said that lack of CarPlay was the biggest deal breaker he saw in closing sales. He thought that GM was going to have to issue an OTA update to add phone projection, but I think that was wishful thinking on his part, at least unless there is a top level management change. And for now, it appears that super low lease offers win out over CarPlay (also, this conversation was a few weeks before the federal tax credit expired).

And the sheep go "Baaaa"

Of course GM (or any other manufacturer)should put Apples fucking OS in their cars. This is an obvious business/branding decision.

Only reason not to is if Apple start paying them like Google is doing for search in Safari