• peskywarrior@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    A version of QNX (made by Blackberry) is in my Volkswagen. It’s quick, noninvasive, and still works well despite my removal of the 4G comm box that connected it to the Internet. I’d truly miss QNX if it disappeared.

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      10 months ago

      the UI of that was from an aquisition of The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), a user interface design company based in Malmö, Sweden, was acquired by the company on December 2, 2010.[183][184] With a history of creating user interfaces and applications for mobile, TAT contributed heavily to the user experience of BlackBerry 10 as well as the development of its GUI framework, Cascades.

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        10 months ago

        I miss BB10 (maybe the physical device more than the OS lol) dearly! That’s pretty neat to know both interfaces were derived from the same source, I knew I noticed a lot of similarities!

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      10 months ago

      No, I don’t want 40" touch screens mounted to the dash of my car nor do I want corpo goons driving my car.

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    10 months ago

    You know how your infotainment is fast to start up, works well and is only buggy when using CarPlay/AndroidAuto? Well now expect only the CarPlay/AA experience.

    QNX is a great OS, and it’s unfortunate that instead of getting better integration, we’re getting whatever Google and Apple shovels at the auto industry.

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      10 months ago

      To be honest, I haven’t had many issues with AA. My wife’s car has AA and it’s been better than the mutant abortion of a manufacturer-designed interface that my older car has.

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      10 months ago

      So much this. I’ve driven a lot of Volkswagen group cars. Their software was great (built on QNX). Now only the real-time canbus part of the car runs on QNX (and is still rock solid) while the entertainment part runs on android and is a train wreck; crashes at least once/day.