Leon Cowle (@[email protected])

@[email protected] This decision continues to boggle my mind, @[email protected]. I listened to @[email protected]'s Decoder episode on this, and came away thinking that GM's CEO and Chief Product Officer's arguments were utter bullshit (and more than a little disappointed that Nilay didn't push back harder against arguably-facetious arguments). Sure, have a go at making a superior interface. Nothing wrong with that. But not offering CarPlay as an OPTION doesn't make any sense, from a customer perspective. If GM's interface is better, customers will use it. If it's not, they should be able to fall back to CarPlay. Compete! Also: you won't WIN *any* customers by NOT offering CarPlay, you can only LOSE customers. Makes no sense! EXCEPT... I can only assume that their true reasons, which they can't admit to publicly, are more nefarious: that it's all a play for the soon-to-explode in-car-subscription business. Can't nickle&dime folks for stuff if they can get it for free with CarPlay. (I would likely buy a Blazer EV tomorrow, were it not for the lack of CarPlay -- but it's completely off the table. How many customers are there like me? I suspect many!)