In other recent GM tech news, the company will stop supporting phone projection in their infotainment (Apple CarPlay, Android Auto). This change seems to have been championed by the person now taking over GM software, Sterling Anderson.
From a recent interview [0]:
> But frankly, it’s a very Jobsian approach to things. The removal of the disk drive, nobody liked that, everybody on the forums and Facebook was complaining about it, but to that he said, “Look, guys, flash storage really is the future. Get on board, you’ll see that.” That’s kind of what we’re saying here, in fact that’s exactly what we’re saying.
Sterling sounded very sure of his strategy and very dismissive of commentary otherwise.
Good interview during which you hear what he/Mary think about as analogies to in-car experience. Did not sound to me like they had coherent thinking around all of the software decisions.
I'm going to wear black turtlenecks and then I also can say: 'I'm taking a very Jobsian approach to things.', implying that my ideas are as good as Steve Jobs.
Jobs excelled at saying no to people’s current needs in favor of positioning his business to master their next needs, in order to profit greatly from satisfying his customer’s future desires.
GM is sacrificing people’s needs in order to harvest their data for profit, with no apparent improvements on the table for buyers or users of GM vehicles in exchange for their gains.
GM is lying.
They simply can’t sustain growth in revenue growth to prop up their stock price without New And Innovative Revenue Sources. None of this is for their customers; it’s to reallocate a share of Google’s data revenue, and to begin generating revenue from privacy-shielded iPhone users, for themselves. Makes sense that their ex-Apple tech leader fired himself out of a cannon over their selfishness. They probably wrote the Jobs analogy to exploit his Apple connection in the eyes of the public and I bet that was the last straw.
The title is rather misleading. The previous software manager was pushed out in a re-org the promises deeper enshitification of GM software, as they try to make software features a profit center that delivers revenue from customers, rather than just vehicles.
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In other recent GM tech news, the company will stop supporting phone projection in their infotainment (Apple CarPlay, Android Auto). This change seems to have been championed by the person now taking over GM software, Sterling Anderson.
From a recent interview [0]:
> But frankly, it’s a very Jobsian approach to things. The removal of the disk drive, nobody liked that, everybody on the forums and Facebook was complaining about it, but to that he said, “Look, guys, flash storage really is the future. Get on board, you’ll see that.” That’s kind of what we’re saying here, in fact that’s exactly what we’re saying.
[0]: https://www.theverge.com/podcast/803379/gm-ceo-mary-barra-st...
Sterling sounded very sure of his strategy and very dismissive of commentary otherwise.
Good interview during which you hear what he/Mary think about as analogies to in-car experience. Did not sound to me like they had coherent thinking around all of the software decisions.
If exactly what he's saying is gonna be as good as Jobs-era Apple, I will eat my left front tire.
With mayonese?
I'm going to wear black turtlenecks and then I also can say: 'I'm taking a very Jobsian approach to things.', implying that my ideas are as good as Steve Jobs.
Jobs excelled at saying no to people’s current needs in favor of positioning his business to master their next needs, in order to profit greatly from satisfying his customer’s future desires.
GM is sacrificing people’s needs in order to harvest their data for profit, with no apparent improvements on the table for buyers or users of GM vehicles in exchange for their gains.
GM is lying.
They simply can’t sustain growth in revenue growth to prop up their stock price without New And Innovative Revenue Sources. None of this is for their customers; it’s to reallocate a share of Google’s data revenue, and to begin generating revenue from privacy-shielded iPhone users, for themselves. Makes sense that their ex-Apple tech leader fired himself out of a cannon over their selfishness. They probably wrote the Jobs analogy to exploit his Apple connection in the eyes of the public and I bet that was the last straw.
Wow. They need to make that guy pee in a cup before he moves into his new office.
Former Apple exec Dave Richardson
The title is rather misleading. The previous software manager was pushed out in a re-org the promises deeper enshitification of GM software, as they try to make software features a profit center that delivers revenue from customers, rather than just vehicles.