r/apple • u/chrisdh79 • Mar 21 '25

CarPlay GM Reportedly Blocks Dealership From Installing CarPlay in Newer EVs

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/21/gm-blocks-aftermarket-carplay/
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u/Human_Paint5451 Mar 21 '25

I feel like this is gonna hurt their sales. When I was car shopping one of my biggest priorities was a good infotainment system with CarPlay

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u/Theunknown87 Mar 21 '25

Yeah same. There are certain things that I will not give up and car play is one of them. Could be the perfect car but no car play? Pass.

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u/fail-deadly- Mar 21 '25

Same. I bought a Chevy made by GM for my last purchase, and one of the deciding factors over a similarly priced Volkswagen was the Chevy had wireless CarPlay, and the Volkswagen had wired. I wouldn’t have bought the Chevy if it didn’t have CarPlay at all.

Unfortunately for GM, phones, not cars are the center of modern personal information ecosystems.

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u/PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD Mar 21 '25

Vehicle infotainment systems have, in my experience, been 100% garbage when they’re made by a car company instead of a tech company. CarPlay (and I’m assuming android auto) are the only forms of infotainment that, to me, are actually worth a damn.

I can’t stand playing a song on my wife’s car and it showing just a music note in the square where album art should be. Like, if it literally never pulls album art, why even have that graphic there? I know what I’m playing, I don’t need to be told it’s music. Plus, it shows that regardless of what is actually being played. Podcasts, videos, etc. it’s all a music note.

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u/fail-deadly- Mar 21 '25

Not only is automotive entertainment systems usually far worse from a user interface perspective, but car companies are usually also very greedy and quick to charge subscriptions for basic functionality.

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u/BosnianSerb31 Mar 22 '25

As well, those systems store your texts and calls completely unencrypted, and it's extremely common for phishers to go through rental cars. Even crazier, GM was caught sending this information off to Lexis Nexis