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Ford Dumping Windows For QNX In New Vehicles
innocent_white_lamb writes "Ford has announced that their in-vehicle technology called Sync will be based on Blackberry's QNX operating system and will no longer use Microsoft Windows. My own 2013 Ford Escape has the Windows-based Sync system. I wonder if they will issue an update to change it to QNX."
Anonymous sources inside Ford cited reliability problems with Windows and lower licensing costs for the switch to the classic realtime OS.
And it would never sell. Really what we need is something like iOS/OS X running on it - everyone knows the interface, you don't have to play with it, it doesn't randomly fall over, and the applications are locked down. Android's mistake is being too fragmented - different features by different carriers. I don't see how Ubuntu is defective by design either. Consumers want something that works, and does what they want it to do. They don't care about ideological arguments over licenses.
I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
That's why i buy cars built in America, Like Honda, toyota, and Nissan.
You think I am joking. those three companies build more cars in the USA than Ford, GM and Chrylser.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
One word: tariffs.
Japanese auto companies can dodge the import tariffs on completed autos if they are built in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and North Carolina. American auto companies can also dodge the tariffs (and UAW strong-arming) by building them in Mexico.
Thanks, NAFTA!
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You bought an automatic Mustang?