The problem I see while this is great for consumers is IOS isn't a real-time OS. So it won't be able to manage car sensor data.
This means it'll be a hard sell to auto-makers in the US since most want only 1 computer in the car (to do infotainment AND sensor control). This is the holy grail currently in infotainment systems.
The only automaker moving in this direction currently is Ford by using blackberry's platform which is Realtime. The problem then being your downgrading from a 600MHz PPC chip to a dual core ARM. Your heat generation decreases significantly, but so does your computational muscle.
Honestly I'll be surprised if this catches on with US automakers.
Source: Close friends who could possibly lose their jobs if I give names. Or suppliers, some of the outfits who know about this are small.
From what I understand the Microsoft contract is cancelled, the new company stepping in has a real time OS, and they are testing once again to enable single CPU configurations.
Actually re-spoke to my friend. The Apple and QNX actually use the same board (as QNX is core OS for appleIOS). Apple's been in development of this for over a year.
Which Ford shifting to a QNX platform (public knowledge), means we'll likely see this sooner then I predicted.
They are probably using QNX[1] which doesn't really have anything to do with Blackberry phones. QNX has a pretty wide adoption in the embedded systems community.
This means it'll be a hard sell to auto-makers in the US since most want only 1 computer in the car (to do infotainment AND sensor control). This is the holy grail currently in infotainment systems.
The only automaker moving in this direction currently is Ford by using blackberry's platform which is Realtime. The problem then being your downgrading from a 600MHz PPC chip to a dual core ARM. Your heat generation decreases significantly, but so does your computational muscle.
Honestly I'll be surprised if this catches on with US automakers.
Source: Close friends who could possibly lose their jobs if I give names. Or suppliers, some of the outfits who know about this are small.