Cars and operating systems cannot be adequately compared, however. A car, at its base level, is a method of transport. Although motor vehicles are heavily compu

Cars and operating systems cannot be adequately compared, however. A car, at its base level, is a method of transport. Although motor vehicles are heavily computerized nowadays, they still have that explicit and relatively simple purpose. Cars have a relatively standardized method of operation, and they don't have the same problems of forwards obsolescence. You're not going to have some new binary format stop you from changing tires, extensions or breaking changes to the API meaning you can't install a new air filter, or any of that. Cars don't have the same level of being an indeterminate and chaotic system that operating systems do, as computation is fundamentally far more abstract and prone to such radical change than automotive engineering is, which is grounded on higher plane physics, mostly.