An infamous technology from Blackberry will now assist Apple’s new infotainment system – CarPlay. Apple has confirmed that CarPlay is based on QNX car platform, a software that has been specially designed to help vehicle infotainment systems. This decade old software is extremely flexible to adapt to any ongoing advancements happening in the mobile and car technology. In association with BlackBerry’s QNX car platform, Apple’s iOS can send a wave of excitement. If investors don’t want to mark it as Apple’s another exceptional accomplishment, they might like to take a long term perspective.

With its new car infotainment system, it’s possible that Apple is thinking of gaining access to the automotive industry. CarPlay is definitely a feature pack technology. Although the underlying technology is not something that consumers have never seen before, but it’s quite appealing to at least change the monotonous outlook of the investors who think Apple doesn’t belong to the race of innovators anymore.
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