Connected Car
But analysts and QNX itself suggest a more promising outcome, with BlackBerry already taking on a new, larger role as car-computer traffic cop. “We saw this coming years ago,” said Grant Courville, BlackBerry QNX’s vice-president of products and strategy. “We saw infotainment becoming much more consumer-centric, and I should really say much more application-centric,” Courville said. QNX responded with products such as Hypervisor, which puts firewalls between operating systems running on the same hardware to prevent any problem from spreading. A key selling point, BlackBerry believes, is its long-standing reputation for reliability that led then-Michigan-based Delphi Automotive to seek out QNX software for the U.S. supplier’s nascent infotainment systems in the 1990s.