Does anyone know what the implications are for the phone application? Its default map application on the Ubuntu phone, and although its missing some features, its quite nice overall.
I generally find the quality of built-in GPS maps in cars to be quite inferior to the quality of google maps. Is this company really worth 3B? who knows, but the car manufactures could probably just licensed google maps for free and focus on building great cars instead.
What happens to the employees with a joint ownership like this? In other words, who runs the technical side of the house and determines the future course of the product.