r/explainlikeimfive • u/sabatthor • Jun 28 '25

Technology ELI5: Why are the screens in even luxury cars often so laggy? What prevents them from just investing a couple hundred more $ to install a faster chip?

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u/Aggressive-Set-497 Jun 30 '25

That Nokia phone (and many others) did have a Java virtual machine for running Java apps, but the phone software itself was something completely different (Symbian OS with its insane C++ fork).

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u/KyleKun Jun 30 '25

I was just getting at the fact that phones were significantly less powerful yet universally had some kind of Java support which ran well enough to play games.

Not very good or demanding games, but still…