GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto because they're unsafe

Re:GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto beca... by sbierwagen on Thursday December 14, 2023 @12:33AM (#38638162)

Apple made a computer with a fast, responsive UI in 1984 using a chip that ran at 7.8 mhz and had 128 kb of ram.

You don't need a fast chip to eliminate lag. It's just incompetence.

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Re:GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto beca... by fl7305 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @02:12AM (#38638649)

Sure. I've used home computers since 1979. The graphics were instantaneous back then even on a few MHz and 16 kBytes of RAM.

We don't want slow and laggy UIs because the software is bloated.

But I responded to this part:

> The real issue is that the infotainment systems are underpowered

And my point was that it is far harder than it seems to put more powerful CPUs in cars.

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Re:GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto beca... by jonathankoren on Thursday December 14, 2023 @01:47PM (#38645355)

They weren't doing that much either. I doubt an Apple ][ could even stream modern audio codecs via bluetooth, let alone simultaneously run a local search on the GPS database.

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