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This person is just an anti-Microsoft guy. The last thing car manufacturers will want is liability for car crashes due to any non-bulletproof OS failing, and Windows Phone, Apple iOS, and Android just don't make the grade. Heck, Java doesn't, either. When you add the privacy aspects of connectivity with Google/Apple/Microsoft via cell (on the road) or WiFi (at home), it's obvious the author is pulling stuff out of his butt.

Apple is making a lot of inroads in the auto industry. Microsoft had Ford, but their are losing it. My 2009 Ford Taurus has MS Sync. . . and it drives me crazy. A week before New Years, it lost the ability to handle my contacts. . . tell it to call someone from my contacts list and it will come up with the number for ANY ONE except the person I told it to call. . . It's done it before and usually resolved its confusion within a few days. It hasn't so far this time.

Among the automobile companies already announced as picking up Apple are Honda-Acura, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Chevrolet/Opel, Kia, Infiniti, Jaguar, Volvo, Hyundai, Nissan, BMW, Land Rover, Audi, Toyota and Chrysler. So I think you need to re-think your assertions about the safety of Apple's OS.

Ahem, “picking up Apple” means NOTHING WITH EMBEDED SYSTEMS. They are all using QNX from BLACKBERRY, last I heard, for their whole backbone for running the actual car.

Ford just dropped Microsoft for their in-car screen console for a new QNX-authored screen console, but the car never ran on Microsoft, nor will it run on iOS (or any other car or important system).

“Among the automobile companies already announced as picking up Apple are Honda-Acura, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Chevrolet/Opel, Kia, Infiniti, Jaguar, Volvo, Hyundai, Nissan, BMW, Land Rover, Audi, Toyota and Chrysler. So I think you need to re-think your assertions about the safety of Apple's OS. “

You are clueless. NONE “RUN ON” Apple iOS!

Having a menu screen INTERFACE with iOS is completely separate from the car's OS “running” iOS Do you think an iPhone is running the air bags, engine, anti-lock brakes, and air-bags? Please, you are making me laugh!

“So I think you need to re-think your assertions about the safety of Apple's OS. “

ROTFL!!