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.