Ondrej Holzman There is another new field on which Apple and Google will be fighting in the coming years. The latter company officially announced its formation on Monday Open Automotive Alliance, which it wants to compete with iOS in the Car from Apple. Who will control cars with their operating system?
Open Automotive Alliance, translated as the Open Automotive Alliance, is a global alliance of technology and automotive industry leaders committed to bringing the Android platform to cars starting in 2014. The entire alliance is led by Google, which has managed to acquire the world's best brands such as General Motors, Audi , Hyundai and Honda.
The only tech company outside of Google is nVidia. After all, she is also a member Open Handset Alliance, on whose model the latest automotive alliance is probably built. The Open Handset Alliance is a Google-led consortium responsible for the commercial development of Android for mobile devices.
The specific time frame when we will see the first Android-powered dashboards in cars has not yet been determined. However, we should wait for the first models until the end of this year at the latest, but the deployment of Android will differ for individual car manufacturers.
The presentation of the Open Automotive Alliance is also very interesting considering the competition, because in its iOS in the Car program Apple has previously mentioned GM, Hyundai and Honda as partners, and even models have already been presented that this year with systems connected to the iPhone will have of production lines.
Most likely, only the following months will show in which direction which car company will go, however, it is possible that in the end some will bet on both variants. For example, at General Motors, they experienced a positive response from customers with their models integrating iOS. On the other hand, according to her words, the head of GM, Mary Chan, sees huge possibilities in the Android platform.
Similar to General Motors, Honda is also in this situation. The Japanese company has also already announced iPhone-powered dashboards in its 2014 Civic and 2015 Fit models, but now Honda's head of R&D, Yoshinaru Yamamoto, has said that he is "very pleased to join the Google-led alliance as Honda wants to provide its customers with the best experience".
Even Honda's attitude suggests that initially the automakers will focus on several solutions, from which they will eventually choose the one that suits their cars and customers the most. For example, General Motors has already announced its own AppShop, similar to the App Store, after a year of creating developer tools, so it cannot be expected that it would now abandon these efforts due to the transition to Google or Apple solutions.
In the automotive industry, Apple and Google are at the very beginning, so it will be interesting to see where the development of modern dashboards and devices that will work with them will move, but we cannot expect any major revolution at least in the coming months. However, it is cars that are being talked about as a new attraction and trend in the technological world.
And Microsoft will let this train pass by, because it doesn't really have much to offer in this industry. (I mention this because few people know that, for example, in the Ford (General Motors) Mondeo with Ford Convers or in Ford cars with the My Ford system, the system is also being developed by Microsoft, and has been for several years.)
and that's good, seeing a blue screen at the wrong time is probably not a great feeling. :-D by the way, wait, I'm installing updates, the restart will take place in 10, 9, 8, 7, ... :-D I've already seen the Windows error message on ATMs, on the cable TV screen. :-D on the other hand, most industrial operations and power plants run on Windows, so it's hard to say...
The Audi disappointed...
Well, I don't know. Android is an unstable system and something like that is not something to care about in a car.
So about the Red Riding Hood... Such iOS7 must be a flowering of stability and ergonomics, isn't it :-)
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The steering wheel app requires Google+ registration, install/decline.
Apparently it's Android, so you can install an unofficial steering wheel. Unfortunately, this one can only turn right. OK, so we'll root it and install steering wheels instead of the steering wheel.
Android really not, it's a joke and not an OS.
well, I think that if the car companies cooperate with both, then these jokes will definitely be available as extra equipment for a lot of money, and I bet that iOS will be even more expensive. Or if it should be in the basic equipment, they will stuff Android into the lower and narrower middle classes. and upper middle class and luxury cars and limousines will be equipped with iOS.
I don't see, but the system from Silicon Valley has been running in Tesla cars for a long time.
And it's no coincidence that it's similar to IOS :-)