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Originally Posted by wparsons
I don't understand how people are still saying it's not open source when you can freely download the source code. If you want the source code, get it here: http://www.opensource.apple.com/
As for cocoa vs the kernel, cocoa has never been (and probably never will be) open source, but the kernel is (and will always be as long as it's BSD based). Cocoa is nothing more than a UI, similar to KDE, gnome, etc. |
Important as it is, the kernel is an incredibly small part of iOS. iOS's selling points are all the software that runs on top of the kernel.
I think iOS for cars is going to be a whole lot less branded than people seem to be implying in this thread. I don't think Apple won't LET them make custom GUIs. Maybe a few graphics. They probably won't even let anyone change the font. BMWs investment would be the relatively small effort of getting the right hardware in place and then writing custom apps for it.
IMO, unless BMW is holding out for Android or something else, they're probably making a mistake. I haven't used whatever BMW's thing is called but I'm almost positive it's probably not very good. Ford My Touch is supposed to be the best thing ever, and it gets plenty of negative reviews.