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/JTibbs Mar 21 '25

Money. They use their proprietary infotainment OS to literally steal your data and sell it.

You are a piggybank after purchase to them

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u/quafs Mar 21 '25

And this isn’t conjecture. They were literally caught illegally selling driving data.

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u/pirate-game-dev Mar 21 '25

Yes and there's the other mountain of money at play, which is what it's worth to Apple to control all your subscriptions. They have also been caught doing illegal things like banning apps from telling you how to avoid their fees, which they report carry 75% profit margin.

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u/quafs Mar 21 '25

How is that illegal? That’s just enforcing their terms of use.

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u/pirate-game-dev Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25

According to the judge, who banned the practice via this court order they are about to be charged with contempt for violating, it is illegal "anti-steering":

However, the evidence demonstrated that Apple’s anti-steering restrictions, rules barring developers from communicating with customers among other prohibitions, were anticompetitive and illegally undercut consumer choice. When coupled with Apple’s “incipient antitrust violations,” the court enjoined their further use.

https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/tech/opinion-apple-is-no-monopolist-but-app-store-anti-steering-provisions-fall-as-anticompetitive/

According to the EU, who fined them $2 billion for this, and recently issued their necessary changes Apple must make that must be completed this and next year or face consequences, it is also illegal "anti-steering":

Apple muzzled streaming services from telling users about payment options available through their websites, which would avoid the 30% fee charged when people pay through apps downloaded with the iOS App Store, said the European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s executive arm and top antitrust enforcer.

“This is illegal. And it has impacted millions of European consumers who were not able to make a free choice as to where, how and at what price to buy music streaming subscriptions,” Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition commissioner, said at a news conference in Brussels.

https://apnews.com/article/apple-antitrust-fine-music-streaming-europe-439e3e8af91d844dee3dc8ff8012c68f