Re:GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto beca...
by lelanthran on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @08:11AM
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Right, correct, and I understand your position, but the offerings from the automobile manufacturers came with a 1000x markup for stuff that didn't even work half the time ... unless you paid the entire cost of manufacturing an entire head unit all over again.
A premium vehicle I owned (Mercedes Benz) needed the dealer to install the new maps, only had support for BT music on my phone, and cost more than a decent Android tablet each time I wanted new maps.
Honestly, if the automobile manufacturers want to wrest back control from Google/Apple they had better up their game while lowering their greed.
Before Android/iOS was viable, they felt no shame about their display of naked greed when it came to nickle-and-diming the owner.
If they want people to use their system as anything other than an interface to a phone, they need to make the updates free, make the system reliable, and make it so much better than the basic phone interface that people prefer their system to the Android/iOS one.
A premium vehicle I owned (Mercedes Benz) needed the dealer to install the new maps, only had support for BT music on my phone, and cost more than a decent Android tablet each time I wanted new maps.
Honestly, if the automobile manufacturers want to wrest back control from Google/Apple they had better up their game while lowering their greed.
Before Android/iOS was viable, they felt no shame about their display of naked greed when it came to nickle-and-diming the owner.
If they want people to use their system as anything other than an interface to a phone, they need to make the updates free, make the system reliable, and make it so much better than the basic phone interface that people prefer their system to the Android/iOS one.