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GM ditching Apple CarPlay has dealers concerned (finance.yahoo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Porsche also refused to enable Android Auto on their vehicles for a very long time because Google were making outrageous demands for vehicle telemetry information as part of licensing agreements.

Did google or Porsche cave in?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Google changed their policy. Porsche consider their vehicle telemetry to be Trade Secret. Porsche also considered that the demographic of customers that deliberately chose Android instead of IOS and wanted to use an in-car interface were not worth the effort.

They have also rolled out CarPlay to most historical vehicles.

Mercedes-Benz original foray into CarPlay was restricted to certain In-Car Entertainment systems, that were only fitted to certain models. They also had issues with Android Auto licensing early on. Early variants could be configured for Android Auto or CarPlay, but not both. This was fixed in a software update about the same time that Porsche resolved their issues with Google.