Factory Auto starters from GM?!

Well it looks like it is finally starting (no pun intended).  One of my friends just pointed out an article on GM putting in factory installed autostarters.  It figures!  Some of us installers make a good portion of their profits for the year on installing these.  Myself included!  Sometimes I feel that amassing such knowlege is useless.  Just when you get to understand just about everything about certain vehicles you find out that your no longer needed.  So far I haven't seen what the price would be yet.  One can only hope it will be more expensive than having one installed at your local electronics shop.  Oh well what can we do?  I guess when all is said and done I can stand on the street corner and sell pencils!

the problem that I see with the starters from GM will be the 10 minute run time and the 60ft of range....most of the aftermarket have at least a range of 150ft. and those are the cheap ones...I think that the aftermarket will always have the edge on the newest coolest thing in audio and features like starters, alarms and video....the car mfgrs are way to slow to put out what people want in a timely manner...so there will always be an aftermarket!!!!    installguy509

and don't forget that people that purchase used vehicles don't always get the remote that originally came with the car or truck...

I install a couple a week for the local Ford dealership so the ford ones must not be too popular   Their mechanics hate installing them and I do a WAY better job anyways.  Now factory would be a different story.  If they offer a good range remote start from factory with a nice remote that will impact me.  I would think it would probably take at least 5 years before you saw it on all models.  Look at on star, you still can't get it in all vehicles.  Same with cd players, they took a long time before they were available in everything.  I don't even think you could get a cd player in a 94 chev truck,  If you could they were few and far between.  Hell Cd's had already been out for 15 years at that time!  The point of my story?  Well GM moves slowly.  At least we can hope.