Wednesday, March 12, 2014

BlackBerry’s QNX: Why it’s so valuable to Apple, Google, auto industry

<p>Apple's CarPlay has to ride on top of BlackBerry's QNX platform for in-auto entertainment systems. Ford was reportedly pondering a swap from Microsoft to QNX to for its Sync platform. And it's highly likely that the front end of Google's Android in-vehicle efforts are also going to have a QNX play.</p><p>Asking for automotive smartphone integration as an optional extra</p><p>CNET Review: Apple won't own the dashboard with CarPlay</p><p>So when BlackBerry CEO John Chen calls QNX one of the crown jewels of the company he's not kidding. Here's what Chen said in December on BlackBerry's last earnings call:</p><p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blackberrys-qnx-why-its-so-valuable-to-apple-google-auto-industry-7000027169/">Keep reading...</a></p>

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