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Originally Posted by ember1205
- Please stop offering wireless charging in cars - it's completely useless with Apple Car Play and Android Auto (where you have to use a cable connection which also charges)
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- Does anyone at GM think that anyone owns a phone that will fit in the little "pad" behind the console (which is where the wireless charging would be)?
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- Why is there NOWHERE in this car to put a phone while you're driving?
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Several good points in there, let me respond to just the few phone-specific ones
I for one love the wireless charging feature, never plug my phone in, never used Android Auto except a few times for testing, and my phone fits on the charging pad. Said phone also stays put on the rubber pad no matter the way I drive. Granted, my phone is a 2017 Samsung model, but I couldn't care less about phones, they're all the same to me.
Now I do understand that many owners don't care for the built-in navigation and are (relatively) happy to fiddle with USB cables, I'm not one of them. Moreover, I actually love the HUD and DIC integration of the factory nav, and, somewhat surprisingly, Google Maps led me astray more times than GM's navigation software.
So where am I going with all this? Just wanted to point out we're not all alike and some of these things you pointed out aren't obvious failures. Yeah, the wireless charging pad should be larger indeed, they mostly fixed this lack of foresight later in the C8 and the new Tahoe/Suburban. Never backporting significant improvements is nothing new for GM and several other carmakers. To their credit, GM did at least release an updated wireless charger module for the Camaro that actually works with late model phones.
(BTW it's a bit inconsistent of you to criticize the lack of configurability in many of your points, yet you ask for GM to remove a feature just because you consider it useless—how about those that never want to change their settings linked to driving modes, for example, they could easily argue you're asking GM to spend resources on a "useless" feature.)