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      Up to now, I believe, these systems were not first-party but built by the manufacturers of the infotainment systems. Now, Mercedes is taking this in-house to get it right and integrate it with the rest of the far more properly?

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        I don’t really have any more faith in Mercedes than I do with infotainment systems.

        I don’t doubt that they have amazing org knowledge around integrating data systems, but how are they with… any of the myriad of other components of operating systems?

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    They should bring better UX engineers into the boat.

    The old M.B os and its touch interface (in combination with the physical touchpad) is a horror even for digital matured persons.

    To me it felt like they dont want you to operate the cars system during driving and let everything taking care by the bullshit voice recognition.

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      Even with (more) UX engineers, it was incredibly difficult to get any development done. When I was in this space, management and contractors were incredibly entrenched playing political games to grow teams even bigger to get more funding. There was nobody with any authority using the thing end-to-end saying “this sucks”.

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      I heard the rumor that Linux desktop environments use it too. Now hopefully multimedia apps with 3 letters like VLC and OBS can adopt it too.

      j/k

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      I’d be curious to read more about the context of this. It looks like there are soo many low hanging fruits for anyone with mid-level technical seniority to step in and improve the situation measurably. Scala isn’t bad but sbt definitely has plenty of (avoidable in hindsight) footguns. The tooling ecosystem of Scala has also improved leaps and bounds in the last couple years. Of course that doesn’t do anything to the seemingly disfunctional organization but like the engineering post it was, it didn’t concern itself with it much.

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      While I agree that first party systems suck, as someone with neither an iOS or Android device I personally prefer something work rather than a screen that says “connect iOS/Android”.

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    Why aren’t car companies evaluating React Native on mobile OS’s since that seems to be the way of embedded touch UIs going forward?