Since 2009 a separate car business group, the GENIVI Alliance, has been working on in-car apps and systems for "infotainment", and in 2010 adopted the open source Meego platform initially developed - but then abandoned - by Nokia.
As streaming services become integrated with cars' infotainment systems, drivers will use them more.
"The cards in infotainment have been dealt," says Andreas Mai of Cisco, a network-equipment giant.
But the new model features some cutting-edge technology, such as a cruise-control system that uses radar and the maker's Sync infotainment system.
In the mid-1990s alloft all of its profits came from DRAM memory chips: when the market soured in 1996, its profits shrivelled by 95%.Samsung may be swapping "infotainment" for "lifecare"—but it is still in the hardware business, and that may leave it more vulnerable than it thinks.
These businesses shift Samsung away from easily substitutable gadgets towards more essential industrial goods (see table)—or from "infotainment" to "lifecare", as the company puts it.
In his view TED really stands for "middlebrow, megachurch infotainment".
The Ford Sync infotainment system has helped the carmaker to connect with young, tech-savvy buyers, but it has also generated lots of complaints because it is hard to use.
Harman, an American company that makes infotainment systems for cars, developed a new system for emerging markets, dubbed "Saras", the Sanskrit word for "flexible", using a simpler design and Indian and Chinese engineers.
The rise and rise of "infotainment" on television distressed him.
If their purpose is infotainment, that hardly threatens tertiary education.
