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GM ditching CarPlay & Android Auto for Google-built infotainment system
You are absolutely correct. This is a free market and GM is absolutely entitled to sabotage their own product.mikethemartian said:
I don’t particularly like GM but it is no different than what Apple does with the iPhone. The vehicle is the car manufacturer’s platform and they want to control and profit from the whole experience.clambot2020 said:Wow. Dick move, GM. Greed is still clearly alive and well at a certain GM HQ. You want to make a new interface that's better, fine, do it. Don't charge people for your closed ecosystem that we already know will be inferior. Sorry, gotta go, someone calling me on my flip phone. Assholes.
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GM ditching CarPlay & Android Auto for Google-built infotainment system
First of all it's definitely not about money and definitely all about collecting data. If it was about money why not just have blank screen that will work with whatever smartphone OS you plug into it? There goes the cost of developing a complicated local OS and GUI.illrigger said:That's Volvo/Polestar, Nissan/Mitsubishi/Renault, GM, Ford/Lincoln, Honda/Acura, VW Group, and now Chevrolet that are all-in on Android Automotive, with several others using it as their base without the Google services.
It's not shocking, it's all about money. Apple's Carplay integration requires the carmakers to still develop a local OS and GUI for those who don't have an iPhone, and presumably they have to pay Apple some licensing fees on top. Android Automotive *is* the operating system so no external reliance needs to be assumed, and presumably Google is both aiding in integration and probably covering part of the costs. In the end, automakers get a cohesive car OS that has top-notch navigation and all the apps people want, and Google does all the work for them.
In a day when the software that runs the car is as important if not more so as the hardware, anything that makes the job easier and cheaper for carmakers is going to get their money. Apple dropped the ball here by focusing on making people need to buy more of their products instead of working with the automakers to give them what they need, and Google has been more than happy to pick it up and run it home. -
New iPhone 15 Pro chip will keep solid-state buttons alive when power is very low
None of these are better solutions as they don’t push any technology forward. You’ll figure out how to deal with these new buttons like the rest of us.9secondkox2 said:Better solution: keep actual buttons.Also: action button is cool so long as you also have a mute switch.Never accidentally switched the mute toggle. Have accidentally pressed buttons countless times. Going to be lots of complaints with this.
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Tesla Wireless Charging Platform review: A premium, Tesla-branded AirPower clone
So the price is not a “con”? Yeah ok. Everyone lost their minds when AirPower was rumored to be $180. But because this is Tesla everyone is now ok with $300?
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Meta & Google shouldn't be allowed to bully their way out of paying for news
Kind of like trying to force 3rd party app stores onto iOS?auxio said:Doesn't feel so good when you spend the money developing the technology and someone else figures out how to undercut your revenue stream does it?
