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Ford Ditches Microsoft Partnership On Sync, Goes With QNX

Posted by Soulskill on from the no-bsods-on-wheels dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes: Ford's in-car infotainment system known as Sync will soon evolve to add a capacitive touch screen, better integration with smartphone apps and, eventually, support for Android Auto and Apple CarPlay in version 3, thanks to a switch of operating systems. After years of teaming with Microsoft, the automobile giant has switched to BlackBerry's QNX, a real time operating system renowned for stability.

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  1. Riiiiight. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "A real time operating system renowned for stability." - Freshly Exhumed must have recently gotten a hand job from someone in Blackberry PR for that comment!

  2. Re:Great. More touchscreens. by Lumpy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    " Nothing worse than driving a ten year old car with outdated technology,"

    Correction.. Nothing worse than driving a ten year old car with outdated technology, that started out with crap technology.

    10 year old BMW X3 base model... The tech in this thing is still 3 years ahead of anything in a 2015 ford/gm/chrysler.

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