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MeeGo is coming to BMW, GM and many other car brands. GENIVI Alliance has announced the open source operating system (OS) MeeGo as the basis of their next reference release for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI).

GENIVI is a non-profit industry alliance with founding members BMW Group, Delphi, GM, Intel, Magneti-Marelli, PSA, Visteon and Wind River.

MeeGo is a brand new species of OS. It's a result of collaboration between Nokia and Intel.

MeeGo will provide the base for the upcoming GENIVI Apollo release. In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) is a rapidly growing and evolving field that encompasses all the digital applications that can be used by all travellers in a car. Navigation, entertainment, location-based services, and connectivity to devices, car networks and broadband networks are all covered by IVI.

GENIVI Alliance has announced that they would be using the MeeGo mobile platform for their next generation in-vehicle infotainment platform.
MeeGo is a new mobile platform being developed by Intel and Nokia. It has been sourced from Moblin and Maemo platforms.
It is based on Linux and is primarily aimed at the smartphone market. Thought the platform is flexible enough to be used on other consumer electronics as well.
The company spoke about their decision to pick MeeGo over other alternatives:
“We selected MeeGo as the open source basis for our platform because it is technically innovative and can provide the cross architecture build support we require for our references,” he said. “Working with MeeGo we expect to establish a solution that effectively merges IVI needs with those of the other MeeGo target device categories.”