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GM software boss: we have ‘high conviction’ ditching CarPlay is the right path

GM’s SVP of software defends the company’s controversial choice to ditch CarPlay.

That means Baris has to deal with all the problems of giant Android tablets, like making sure they have enough memory and processing power to last for a long time, even as the demands of users and software developers increase. You do look at the compute investment you’re making and you want to give yourself headroom because today we’re doing Level 2 [autonomy], which is, as I call it, “eyes-on, hands-off driving” with Super Cruise. If you want to sell that listener a Blazer or a Lyriq, he’s got to sit down, open the Play Store — which is not great for discovery right now, I’ll tell you — and he’s got to search for all of his seven apps and he’s got to find them all, which is the problem Windows Phone had, right?

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