Ford Motor Company has done a lot over the last few years to turn its Sync in-car “infotainment” system into a platform for innovation. Now, the company is reportedly changing its entire underlying engine for its next release, dropping Microsoft as its embedded operating system partner in favor of BlackBerry.
Bloomberg News reports that Ford will switch to BlackBerry’s QNX Neutrino real-time operating system and the QNX CAR “infotainment” platform for the next generation of Sync. According to Bloomberg, sources at Ford said the switch will reduce licensing costs and improve the flexibility of the technology.
The second generation of Sync, called MyFord Touch in Ford vehicles, has suffered from a number of technical problems since its launch. While Ford has patched many of the bugs in the system over the past year, the second-generation platform’s technology has turned out to be less flexible than even the original Sync, which has no touchscreen display.
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