It looks like Qualcomm wants to make wi-fi standard on newer cars. Qualcomm want car owners to download apps for their smartphone to work their phones and not vice versa. Making a car totally equiped with Wifi could change game. Being able to download music, movies, and apps could make things like road trips more enjoyable. I hope Qualcomm can make this happen sooner than later. Lets just work on the gas prices next.
“The product lifecycle in cars is really slow. For us, it is more than just providing connectivity to the car manufacturers so they can build a module that talks back via internet,” Rob Chandhok, president of Qualcomm Internet Services and senior vice-president of QCT, explains before telling Pocket-lint the company is: “Just starting to engage with car manufacturers on high-level engagement systems.”
“As a car manufacturer, do I want to be asking people to download Android apps for their car? Or do you just want to be able to use the car as part of the consumer electronic world that I live in? If we abstract it correctly that will be more powerful than asking every consumer device to run Android or Windows.”
