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I can't put this delicately.

It's a car. It's not going to have an app store. You don't want an app store. You don't need an app store.

QNX is a well-understood RTOS--look up "hard real time".

There's a lot more important things in a car for an OS than being able to display a notification on Facebook; things like deploying airbags, coordinating brakes, and all these other things.



The Sync system isn't doing any of the important things you mention. It's infotainment.


Furthermore the notion that you'd be sharing core processing between safety-critical car functionality with infotainment functionality is downright scary. These should always be (are they?) discrete systems.

I can cause my BMW's i-drive (CIC-HIGH NBT F20 2013) to completely crash if I perform a specific action. After fifteen seconds the system detects the freeze and reboots. The way the reboot occurs strongly suggests the reboot is performed by a hardware level supervisor. But the rest of the car continues to function.




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