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They shouldn't be that confident. They're not a software company. The problem is that GM gate-keeps apps. If they allowed unfettered access to the Google Play store for anything that was Android Auto compatible, I'd have less of a problem with it. But the fact that GM limits me to the apps they approve is a BIG problem. I'm an Apple Music and Pandora music user. I also use a few other streaming apps for free radio stations in Europe and my local NPR station, only Pandora is available in-dash none of the rest are available on a GM EV. You prefer Waze over Google Maps? Too bad. I have an excellent weather app called MyRadar that shows updated rain radar maps on my CarPlay display..... GM says "too bad". I know it sucks to do, but sometimes I have to take Teams calls from the car, I can do that with CarPlay. In a GM EV? Too bad. I have a widget for TripIt app in car play that shows my travel itinerary and will even update me on screen if my plane is delayed. GM says "Oh well, you don't need that". THAT is my issue with not allowing Car Play or Android Auto. GM deciding what apps are best for me and you. I'll note that all of these apps exist in the Google Play store and would be available if GM ungated them. Volvo uses the same base OS in their vehicles and doesn't gate-keep apps so they should all be available in a Volvo. (But I have no way of checking). The perverse effect is that even though Volvo has CarPlay, you need it less in a Volvo because you can just get the apps that you want from the Google Play store.

Speaking of sex and sexuality, I slept with an escort once. She was old and smelled like mildew. Never sleep in a Ford escort. I wanted an Escape before that Expedition, and clearly I just needed more Focus.

Even if you don't use many apps. Imagine GM deciding which music you can listen to because they have some sort of agreement with TimeWarner to favor just their library. That's basically what's going on here. You might actually like Pandora. You create an initial play list based on songs that you know and love already, and it plays those, but then it analyzes that and suggests other songs you might also like. You get a thumbs up or thumbs down on your CarPlay screen and that not only adds that song to your playlist or not, but the app learns more what you like and tailors future suggestions around that. You can have different playlists for different genres. From the perspective of learning what you like, Pandora seems to have the best algo of all the music apps. And it's cheap, like $6 a month. The downside is that you can't use it to play a specific song that you want to hear right now.

I'll stand by all of them...except one... 🤷‍♂️