Interesting considering GM's announcement to move away from Apple Carplay to a proprietary tech system. Looking for updates I found a few articles that smell like submarines [0], even though the contents don't necessarily match the headlines IMO [1] [2].

Headline: GM’s New Car Software Is Good Even Without Apple’s CarPlay

Details: A GM representative initially guided me through the process of syncing my iPhone over Bluetooth to handle calls and texts, and it requires about 16 clicks to grant the necessary privacy permissions. My wife, accustomed to one-click CarPlay access in our Subaru, later went through this on-boarding herself and found it annoying and complicated without the guidance I had.

Logging into apps is done via QR codes, similar to how you’d sign in to streaming services on a modern TV. Once all that’s set up, though, the experience is pretty smooth.

I'm also reminded of Ha Phan, a thoughtful designer who I'm familiar with via Twitter. She went to Ford for a brief stint a few years ago and left when seeing their tech rhetoric didn't match up with their BigCo bureaucracy [3]. Ford is obviously not GM, but I wouldn't expect any different from a legacy automaker.

[0] https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-05-06/gm-s-n... [2] https://insideevs.com/reviews/726471/gm-carplay-cadillac-lyr... [3] https://x.com/hpdailyrant/status/1699191645709930841