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Ford Dumping Windows For QNX In New Vehicles

Posted by Unknown on from the back-to-the-classics dept.

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.

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  1. Having used both by phantomfive · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They made the right decision. QNX is one of the more enjoyable embedded OSes (IMO YMMV of course).

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    "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
  2. Cheaper, really? by jhol13 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder if it is really true. I'd assume that full fledged OS with all the stuff included would be better infotaintment system than QNX.
    As I do not know which version of "Windows" they use, suppose they used Android. Now they would get, for free without any development costs or time, bluetooth, wifi, 3G, UI, development tools, etc. The system would work as a bluetooth handsfree[1]. The system would, with a SIM, work as a wifi-hotspot. You would get Google Maps, i.e. navigation. Games from Play store. Etc, for free (or the price of Android if they want maps&play).

    With QNX, what do they get?

    [1] I assume Android can work as a bluetooth "device", not only as a "host".