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Reaction to Tesla?
by kator 12y ago
Reaction to Tesla?
- briandh 12y agoReaction to what about Tesla? This is promoting Google's Android-based IVI platform. In addition, the OAA was first announced in January.
- eplanit 12y agoPart of the motivation is in reaction to, and to compete with Genivi. That said, I think the OAA has broader goals than Genivi. Whether either organization accomplishes anything is to be seen. http://genivi.org/ http://genivi.org/
- briandh 12y agoI don't know much about GENIVI, but looking at the Wikipedia page, it turns out it has automakers involved that are also part of the OAA (Renault, Nissan, Hyundai, and GM, unless I'm skipping any). And there's overlap in the tech companies involved, too, of course.
- mrpippy 12y agoNo, it's competition for/keeping pace with Apple CarPlay. CarPlay is an extremely "sticky" part of the iOS ecosystem: if someone uses CarPlay for navigation, music playback, etc and their car only supports CarPlay, that user can't realistically switch away from iOS (until they buy a new car) without giving up major features. But now that Android Auto is essentially the same thing, and should have pretty widespread availability, it takes away a reason for users to stay with iOS.