Gm's Top Software Leader Leaves Company, Prompting Tech Dept Overhaul
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GM's top software leader leaves the company, prompting a tech department overhaul, raising concerns about the company's ability to deliver on its software promises; commenters discuss the challenges of software development in the automotive industry and question GM's strategy.
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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...
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.
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.