Economics

Were these the employees GM tasked to build a custom infotainment system to replace CarPlay?

The software and services division covers a wide variety of areas for the automaker, including infotainment, its OnStar brand, and emerging areas such as subscriptions and other vehicle features and development.

So "Infotainment" the CarPlay/Android Auto replacement, OnStar the thing that literally nobody wanted ever, and "subscriptions" which is the worst idea I have heard of in decades. You "buy" the car, but then most of its features are behind a paywall?!?!?

This is another example of employees reaping the consequences of executive's moronic ideas.

They're not cutting those jobs. They're just firing the US staff.

Those jobs are being prepared to hire in India / Romania / Other in approximately 2 months.

(I don't know that for a fact, I'm just, cynically, saying that's the trend)

Unlikely, but is this a revision of theft of ownership from neo digital feudalism? Will new cars exist again for purchase? The death of vehicle ownership is the linchpin of a much larger scale wealth disparity gap in an apocalyptic dystopian future. At the present, new cars are worthless in a future second hand market. They are not economically reparable for a 3rd party dealerships business model and the way auction houses must operate. This is an absolutely vital rung for low end automobile access for people with bad or no credit, or incomes that are less conventional like many forms of self employment. These types of car dealers are not carrying anything newer on their lots right now. That market is dying and it will completely isolate this segment of the population in severe poverty.

But they didn't fail!

Very important.

They're just streamlining...