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I won’t touch this with a 10 foot pole. Stupid.
If they really wanted to make a play at beating CarPlay and Android Auto, they should make a superior product, but include both of the alternatives in the car. As a customer, I would still consider buying the car if it included CarPlay. I won’t even consider it with this, which means I won’t even be in a position to try GM’s alternative. It’s too big of a risk to spend $30-40k on a new car and hope their custom infotainment isn’t trash and works nicely with all the data and apps I have in my smartphone.
That's just unfair. You're completely discounting this list of excellent, well supported software products created by legacy car companies:
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The pay-to-play heated seats always work, though!
/s
It boggles the mind that the built in software in cars always runs (and often looks) like an early 2000s budget DVD player.
Why wouldn't you touch it? You WANT this. TRUST US!
-GM, probably