You were – still are – obliged to pay the government (in a number of states) a regular mordita styled "property tax" as the condition of being allowed to retain possession of what you thought you bought.

And now the car companies want to get in on that action.

GM – emulating Tesla, which was the first car company to do something along these lines – announced the other day that it will no longer "support" Apple CarPlay and its non-Apple equivalent, AndroidAuto – so as to be able to wheedle people who buy GM vehicles into subscribing to its new proprietary infotainment system.