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Apple Inc. is continuing to pillage the automotive software expertise of Ottawa’s QNX Software Systems, quietly hiring the company’s co-founder and former chief executive Dan Dodge earlier this year, according to media reports.
Bloomberg News has reported that Dodge has joined Apple’s team focused on developing an automobile and will be working directly with Bob Mansfield, who is spearheading the project. Mansfield reports directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Dodge, a private person who is known to avoid the media, founded QNX with his then partner Gorden Bell in 1982. The firm has been wildly successful at supplying customized operating systems for various devices: QNX software can be found in General Motors Corp. and Toyota Corp. cars, military vehicles, municipal power grids and home electronics.
QNX software is already installed in more than 50 per cent of all cars sold worldwide.
He retired from his position at QNX at the end of 2015.
Apple is on a quest to build its own automobile. Its Project Titan has reportedly hired staff from Tesla Motors, Texas Instruments, Volkswagen, Ford Motor Co. and Fiat Chrysler.
Apple’s research and development budget jumped to US$8.07 billion in 2015, a 34-per-cent increase over 2014.
In January, it was revealed that Apple is working to open an office in Kanata, near where QNX is situated.
According to several sources in the Ottawa real estate community, the Cupertino, Calif., tech giant has leased a 22,000-square-foot space on the third floor of 411 Legget Drive after shopping for space in the capital area since at least October.
Apple has repeatedly refused to comment on its Ottawa expansion, and on Wednesday again would not discuss whether its office – relatively modest at about 2½ times the size of an average Apple retail outlet – is the beginning of any planned larger presence in the capital.
It’s also been targeting QNX’s top talent.
Ottawa Apple executive Sebastien Marineau-Mes is a former key QNX executive who left that company after a lengthy legal battle.
Marineau-Mes, whose responsibilities included QNX’s auto software platforms and the BlackBerry 10 operating system, was originally hired byApple in September 2013.
QNX isn’t just about cars. Since its formation 33 years ago, QNX has worked away at the technology hidden within the guts of countless everyday machines.
In the health-care industry, QNX software is built into the diagnostics of blood analytics systems, some defibrillators and X-ray machines. The U.S. military has software developed by the company running in its submarines. And in Las Vegas, security software from QNX is deep inside some slot machines.
When BlackBerry purchased QNX in 2010, the developer began designing the smartphone operating system that would become the platform for BlackBerry 10 phones.
More to come.
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Bloomberg News has reported that Dodge has joined Apple’s team focused on developing an automobile and will be working directly with Bob Mansfield, who is spearheading the project. Mansfield reports directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Dodge, a private person who is known to avoid the media, founded QNX with his then partner Gorden Bell in 1982. The firm has been wildly successful at supplying customized operating systems for various devices: QNX software can be found in General Motors Corp. and Toyota Corp. cars, military vehicles, municipal power grids and home electronics.
QNX software is already installed in more than 50 per cent of all cars sold worldwide.
He retired from his position at QNX at the end of 2015.
Apple is on a quest to build its own automobile. Its Project Titan has reportedly hired staff from Tesla Motors, Texas Instruments, Volkswagen, Ford Motor Co. and Fiat Chrysler.
Apple’s research and development budget jumped to US$8.07 billion in 2015, a 34-per-cent increase over 2014.
In January, it was revealed that Apple is working to open an office in Kanata, near where QNX is situated.
According to several sources in the Ottawa real estate community, the Cupertino, Calif., tech giant has leased a 22,000-square-foot space on the third floor of 411 Legget Drive after shopping for space in the capital area since at least October.
Apple has repeatedly refused to comment on its Ottawa expansion, and on Wednesday again would not discuss whether its office – relatively modest at about 2½ times the size of an average Apple retail outlet – is the beginning of any planned larger presence in the capital.
It’s also been targeting QNX’s top talent.
Ottawa Apple executive Sebastien Marineau-Mes is a former key QNX executive who left that company after a lengthy legal battle.
Marineau-Mes, whose responsibilities included QNX’s auto software platforms and the BlackBerry 10 operating system, was originally hired byApple in September 2013.
QNX isn’t just about cars. Since its formation 33 years ago, QNX has worked away at the technology hidden within the guts of countless everyday machines.
In the health-care industry, QNX software is built into the diagnostics of blood analytics systems, some defibrillators and X-ray machines. The U.S. military has software developed by the company running in its submarines. And in Las Vegas, security software from QNX is deep inside some slot machines.
When BlackBerry purchased QNX in 2010, the developer began designing the smartphone operating system that would become the platform for BlackBerry 10 phones.
More to come.
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