GM CEO Mary Barra says consumers should expect the full phase out of CarPlay and Google’s CarPlay knockoff, Android Auto, in both electric and gas-powered vehicles over the next few years. Just last week, GM took a $1.6 billion write-down on its anemic EV business due to shrinking demand.
GM plans to drop support for phone projection on all new vehicles in the near future, and not just its electric car lineup, according to GM CEO Mary Barra.
In a Decoder interview with The Verge’s Nilay Patel, published Wednesday, Barra confirmed GM will eventually end support of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on both gas-powered and electric cars as the company proceeds to a major rollout of what it’s calling a new centralized computing platform, set to launch in 2028.
In place of phone projection, GM is working to update its current Android-powered infotainment experience with a Google Gemini-powered assistant and an assortment of other custom apps, built both in-house and with partners.
MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote when GM promised to end support in its EV lineup, “For us, and many, many others, General Motors simply moves even further out of consideration for future purchases (GM never really was in consideration anyway).”
Please help support MacDailyNews — and enjoy subscriber-only articles, comments, chat, and more — by subscribing to our Substack: macdailynews.substack.com. Thank you!
Support MacDailyNews at no extra cost to you by using this link to shop at Amazon.
The post GM to kill Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its vehicles, not just its poor-selling EVs appeared first on MacDailyNews.
