GM’s replacement for CarPlay is due at the end of 2023, but its dealers are in the dark about when that will be and what it will do to sales when buyers figure it out.

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TIL there’s an upside to GM ditching CarPlay. Fuck car dealers!

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I’ve seen CarPlay used once. However, I much prefer Tesla’s system. Something about CarPlay seemed laggy and limited. Like, you couldn’t even a read a text; it had to be read to you, even while stopped.

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Tesla’s button free UI makes me want to tear my hair out when driving. Like it was designed by phone guys not drivers.

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I get that, but I like having the UI be customizable. In the video mode, when parked and charging, I don’t need to see buttons.

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Apple fan boys are gonna lose their minds.

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Android Auto is being removed as well. They are implementing a forked-Android-based interface that is incompatible with mainstream Android.

Imagine new GM EVs as the FaceBook or Amazon Fire phones with 4 wheels and a marginally more reliable battery.

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They really should get together and come up with some standard protocol, instead of having cars use proprietary protocols tied to a specific mobile OS.

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If they did, Apple wouldn’t adopt it and we’d be in exactly the same place as we are now.

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Probably. At least it would allow connecting to your car without iOS or Google apps.

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Ditching features that consumers desire could lead to lower sales. More at 11.

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