Just got a letter from GM telling me that the Onstar system in my Yukon XL will no longer work as of January 2008. They are converting their stuff from analog to digital and it will not be backwards compliant. Very nice.
I'm not naive. I understand the economics behind planned obsolescence, but this is a real slap in the face to millions of users. The least they could do is have an update of hardware available, even if it's at the consumer's cost. Now I'll just have a bunch of totally useless buttons on my dashboard.