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New software is buggy, news at eleven. Software made by a hardware company is buggy, also at eleven. Car software sucks, also at… There’s just no surprise he

New software is buggy, news at eleven. Software made by a hardware company is buggy, also at eleven. Car software sucks, also at… There’s just no surprise here at all. This will all be improved (but not fixed) a year from now.

NewJazz 3y ago
If it does poorly enough maybe GM backtracks! One can hope that this dumpster fire persists.
sergiomattei 3y ago
I’m glad to cheer for its demise. CarPlay is an _awesome_ feature and important factor when making a purchase decision.
iAMkenough 3y ago
I still don't understand the benefit to an individual customer, and I don't buy that this implementation will be less distracting than Android Auto. Once the bugs are worked out, Android Auto users will still continue to see user improvements much faster than GM's custom Android build. It's only a matter of time until Google sunsets support for GM's current vehicles running their custom build. At that point, GM will either use that as leverage to get you to buy a new vehicle, and/or cave to user demand and reinstate Android Auto support in newer vehicles.
- fyrn_ 3y ago
  I worry there isn't any value to the customer, and that this is really about taking back control of the software so they can sell subscriptions. We live in a world where seat heating was a subscription service in a luxury car after all.
op00to 3y ago
This is surprising because GM dumped a working solution for a non-working solution.
- shermantanktop 3y ago
  I'm very familiar with this dynamic from work. "We're deprecating v1.0, and looking forward to announcing the release of v2.0 any month now. All past defects will now be marked as 'will not fix', and all future defects will be nonexistent, because we're really smart. If you are lucky enough to find a bug in 2.0, prepare for some gaslighting from an engineer who tells you that YOU are the problem because you have failed to rewrite your entire app around the new, poorly documented API. Oh, docs are a fast follow." But it's one thing to try that move on the captive customer base that is one's fellow engineers; surprised to see it done quite so boldly on the general public.
gdevenyi 3y ago
> There’s just no surprise here at all. This will all be improved (but not fixed) a year from now. No it won't, it'll be abandoned and unsupported like all the other terrible car software.

NewJazz 3y ago

If it does poorly enough maybe GM backtracks! One can hope that this dumpster fire persists.

sergiomattei 3y ago

I’m glad to cheer for its demise. CarPlay is an _awesome_ feature and important factor when making a purchase decision.

iAMkenough 3y ago

I still don't understand the benefit to an individual customer, and I don't buy that this implementation will be less distracting than Android Auto. Once the bugs are worked out, Android Auto users will still continue to see user improvements much faster than GM's custom Android build. It's only a matter of time until Google sunsets support for GM's current vehicles running their custom build. At that point, GM will either use that as leverage to get you to buy a new vehicle, and/or cave to user demand and reinstate Android Auto support in newer vehicles.

fyrn_ 3y ago
I worry there isn't any value to the customer, and that this is really about taking back control of the software so they can sell subscriptions. We live in a world where seat heating was a subscription service in a luxury car after all.

op00to 3y ago

This is surprising because GM dumped a working solution for a non-working solution.

shermantanktop 3y ago
I'm very familiar with this dynamic from work. "We're deprecating v1.0, and looking forward to announcing the release of v2.0 any month now. All past defects will now be marked as 'will not fix', and all future defects will be nonexistent, because we're really smart. If you are lucky enough to find a bug in 2.0, prepare for some gaslighting from an engineer who tells you that YOU are the problem because you have failed to rewrite your entire app around the new, poorly documented API. Oh, docs are a fast follow." But it's one thing to try that move on the captive customer base that is one's fellow engineers; surprised to see it done quite so boldly on the general public.

gdevenyi 3y ago

> There’s just no surprise here at all. This will all be improved (but not fixed) a year from now. No it won't, it'll be abandoned and unsupported like all the other terrible car software.