Mastodawn

Wherein I nearly have an aneurism while listening to a podcast.
https://www.caseyliss.com/2025/10/6/youre-missing-the-point

I really like Rivian, and RJ Scaringe seems like a good dude, but his comments nearly gave me an aneurism.

Liss is More

@caseyliss once again, a hilariously bad take (from Rivian).

If you create an experience that's so seamless and so good, that it eclipses CarPlay… people won't use CarPlay!

Otherwise, you're just knee-capping the infotainment system for your customers

@b3ll @caseyliss
There are three reasons why an automotive manufacturer would not include CarPlay or Android Auto.

1. They don’t want Google collecting telemetry on their vehicles drivers (See Porsche).

2. They think they can make money by selling their own apps to their vehicles drivers (ie GM, BMW).

3. They are fascists and want to control All-The-Things or data brokers and sell their vehicle owners data to the cheapest bidders.

@Salvo @b3ll @caseyliss orrrrr d) they simply have the hubris to think they can do better

@chucker @b3ll @caseyliss
I reckon that comes under Reason 3.

Although Reason 3 is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Maybe 5 reasons…