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I’m guessing that Google is willing to do a revenue share with GM from the data. And apple doesn’t do that. So some dork at GM figured they can increase revenue
by prepend 4y ago
I’m guessing that Google is willing to do a revenue share with GM from the data. And apple doesn’t do that. So some dork at GM figured they can increase revenue with their own special system.
GM has a history of stupid decisions trying to get service revenue from cars. I remember on Star and it was so dumb that they wanted me to lay $40/month for concierge service or something.
- hedora 4y agoThey still have onStar and push it despite all reason. I drove a 2023 chevy bolt recently, and couldn’t figure out how to get the nav software to render a map. All the buttons in the UI just initiated phone calls with someone (something?), so I hung up and switched to carplay. It is a shame that the onboard nav is busted. My old BMW EV has extremely good range predictions, etc., and my phone does not even attempt such things. I’m not switching to Google’s ecosystem, so I guess I’ll just never buy a GM moving forward.
- the_mar 4y agoSomeone. On star is really wild to me. It was such a good product pre smart phone and is entirely useless now