[spicyusername]

I just got a car with Android auto for the first time, after owning an old car for quite a long time.

It's an incredible step up in user experience.

I can't possibly imagine the rationale for doing this being anything more than mismanagement.

The only reason I can think of is that GM wants the user data that Android auto or Apple carplay collect, and they're willing to provide a worse user experience to collect it.

[slumberlust]

That's exactly why. They want to sell as much of the users data as possible and steal another source of ad revenue (Google maps is already advertising businesses as I use the direction feature...oh look a Wendy's coming up...it's never enough).