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Google To Take On Apple's CarPlay
cartechboy (2660665) writes with news that Google is working on software to complete with Apple's CarPlay car dashboard software: Google is set to unveil its own automotive operating system known internally as Google Auto Link. The search giant plans to unveil its system at a software developer conference this month. Interestingly, Auto Link is the first production developed in conjunction with the Open Automotive Alliance, a group of companies including Audi, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, NVIDIA, and Google itself. Like CarPlay, Auto Link won't be an "embedded" system, rather, a "projected" one--an operating system that uses a driver's own smartphone operating system. We'll obviously learn details soon enough, but for now, we are left to wonder whether it'll be Apple or Google that ends up owning the automotive market.
Why would it have to be exclusive?
Car makers can simply support both protocols in their built in systems and whatever device you bring just pairs up with it.
Why would an automaker want to exclude potential customers by only supporting one method or the other is the question you need to ask. Unless Apple or Google is subsidising the cost of the car they just want to make the most attractive package possible and sell more cars.
iphone is a keyboard and a tv-set away from being a full-fledged computer for 99% of the population.
"Well Apple's CarPlay is run on top of BlackBerry's QNX"
CarPlay is a protocol. CarPlay can be run on top of any Operating System. Google's old idea was to have each manufacturer fork Android for their own version of an entertainment system. Google is changing course to follow Apple's lead on creating a protocol instead.