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Assuming that the platform is supported when the manufacturers have sold it. From experience with owning a few cars that are software driven (Fiat I'm looking at you), the manufacturer will disown electrical problems the moment it is sold. Support past a year or two (the warranty) isn't going to happen.

The current touch screen UIs are built as typical embedded systems with long lifecycles. The new ones are consumer devices. The two don't belong in the same space.




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