Update: A GM spokesman said in an email to Carscoops that a version of the AppShop is still planned to be rolled out sometime beyond 2015, saying, “The decision to delay this feature beyond the 2015 model year was based on the company’s commitment to ensure all infotainment systems deliver the highest quality and best user experience to our customers.”

Cadillac will also get a version of the system called CUE Collection. He insisted GM is not getting rid of MyLink/IntelliLink/CUE, but will still “offer a variety of built-in infotainment features as well.”

Here’s what Stefan Cross, GM spokesman told us in detail:

1.) GM is not getting rid of MyLink. MyLink is the name of Chevrolet’s infotainment system (Cadillac’s is CUE and Buick/GMC is IntelliLink). So, all the connected radio and infotainment features we offer within Chevrolet vehicles are part of the MyLink platform. When the day comes that we do implement Apple Car Play or Android Auto, those would be offerings within the MyLink platform too. I think the article – specifically the headline – implies that we are disinvesting in MyLink, which is not the case.

2.) While we are committed to working with Apple and Google to implement their respective phone projection systems, this won’t be customers’ only option for information and entertainment services within the vehicle. We see CarPlay and Android Auto is another option for customers to get the services they want within vehicles, but we will also continue to offer a variety of built-in infotainment features as well. GM is implementing a strategy of both built-in and brought-in connectivity in order to give customers their preferred method of accessing information.

3.) General Motors remains committed to bringing the AppShop (CUE Collection in Cadillacs) to market in the future as part of an overarching connectivity strategy. The decision to delay this feature beyond the 2015 model year was based on the company’s commitment to ensure all infotainment systems deliver the highest quality and best user experience to our customers. Development work is ongoing. However, at this time we have no specific timing to announce.

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General Motors has quietly decided it’s not going to push forward with a planned app store that was supposed to be rolling out with OnStar 4G LTE, and instead rely on working with Apple and Google for future in-car apps.

Gigaom reported Thursday GM has reversed a planned launch of AppShop this fall that was supposed to have offered users of Chevrolet’s MyLink system with the wifi hotspot to download apps from places such as iHeart Radio, NPR and The Weather Channel, for example, directly to their car.

But according to the report, save for Pandora, all of the rumored apps are dead. In fact, GM has ditched any plans to develop its own apps that aren’t strictly related to the vehicle’s information, and it’s going to hand over development of infotainment apps to Apple and Google in the hopes that the new CarPlay and Android Auto systems will meet consumer’s needs better than GM could have for these kinds of services.

It sounds like a smart move. Automakers don’t need to be in the business of adapting existing apps to their individual infotainment systems. And they never seem to work as well as the apps in mobile devices. GM realizes its resources can be better deployed, especially now that Chevrolet is already committed to using CarPlay in the future. Now the automaker can refine the apps that are actually about the car, such as ones for maintenance and control of features such as locks and lights.

And working with companies that make most of our phones means there should be less of a learning curve when you get in the car and try to use all of these connected features or try and pair your phone to the car. Which would be fantastic.

By Zac Estrada