Comment on Mercedes-Benz is using Qt framework to build new operating system for its cars

DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BennyInc@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Up to now, I believe, these systems were not first-party but built by the manufacturers of the infotainment systems. Now, Mercedes is taking this in-house to get it right and integrate it with the rest of the far more properly?

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  • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t really have any more faith in Mercedes than I do with infotainment systems.

    I don’t doubt that they have amazing org knowledge around integrating data systems, but how are they with… any of the myriad of other components of operating systems?

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• ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would extend that and just say all first party operating systems are shitty

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• azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  BMW’s is alright IMO. Unorthodox in its layout but it actually works well with the center console knob thingy and has historically been low-latency even back when every other manufacturer had a 2 second delay for every action on their awful touch screens.

  Of course even BMW’s system is still going to end up being an overly expensive Android Auto/Apple CarPlay launcher because what people want is Waze & Spotify, not random traffic updates from last week & DAB.

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