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GM ditching Apple CarPlay has dealers concerned (finance.yahoo.com)
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A big gamble by General Motors (GM) is causing consternation for its dealers in the all-important race to sell cars — namely electric vehicles.

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[-] EliasChao@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Iirc, it’s been said that the reason for them to ditch CarPlay is so that they can add their own infotainment system where they can charge for subscriptions.

It’s not a technological problem, it’s a “we want to extract every penny out of our customers” problem.

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