GENIVI Alliance selects MeeGo as future in-vehicle infotainment platform

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The GENIVI Alliance isn’t exactly a household name, but the group — whose mission is to drive “the broad adoption of an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) reference platform” — is comprised of companies such as BMW, Delphi, GM, and Intel. Via a press release, GENIVI announced that they have “chosen MeeGo as the basis of its next reference release for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI).” The press release went onto say, “Adoption by this major automotive alliance is a testament to the cross-device, cross-architecture advantages of the MeeGo platform.” GENIVI aims to provide an open, scalable platform for mobile information and entertainment, especially in vehicles. There was no time-line given on when a Meego enable IVI system might hit the marketplace. MeeGo in your car… what do you think?

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5 Comments
  • Celz

    The gods spared Nokia…

  • motofooker

    Yes, choose an unproven OS from a failing company. Why not go with Android? Its already a more mature and proven tech…and FFS, its FREE.

    • JonHolstein

      What failing company?
      Nokia is doing very well worldwide.
      Intel is doing very well worldwide.

      And Android does not scale nearly as well as MeeGo does. Android is a mobile OS, no mattter what device you put it in.

  • Dara

    Meego isn’t just Nokia, it’s also Intel’s project.

    I would suspect that this has more to do with Intel than Nokia, since Nokia’s “Terminal Mode” partnership with Alpine will be probably bring Meego phone interfaces to dashboards well before any dashboards runs on Meego.

  • iFlossâ„¢

    This is so awesome. I’m excited to say the least.

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