I know Tesla plans to have a car in that range in the next few years, but right now they are more than twice that price.
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I know Tesla plans to have a car in that range in the next few years, but right now they are more than twice that price.
That why the 'Find My Car' app will be included with every new iCar, which will have a dock for the iPhone.
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Well rumors about a releasee date five years from now does not seem very promissing to me. Considering the WSJ is usually quite wrong when it trys to guess about anything more than three months into fhe future I don
t think this is something we need to bank on much. And Bloomberg is even more likely to jump the gun on something.
Really I find it hard to believe that Apple would have hundreds of folks working on something this large that is both five years out and yet so in need of testing that they have folks driving around in easily identified cars. The two things dont really make sense together.
Well rumors about a releasee date five years from now does not seem very promissing to me. Considering the WSJ is usually quite wrong when it trys to guess about anything more than three months into fhe future I don
t think this is something we need to bank on much. And Bloomberg is even more likely to jump the gun on something.
Really I find it hard to believe that Apple would have hundreds of folks working on something this large that is both five years out and yet so in need of testing that they have folks driving around in easily identified cars. The two things dont really make sense together.
Car Play
What do mechanical engineers have to do with CarPlay? Isn't CarPlay software?
Because the market cap of Tesla is extremely inflated, they just released a large portion of their intellectual property for public use, and Tesla does a terrible job at manufacturing cars - they lose $10,000 per car not including tax credits.
Tesla really isn't in the ballpark of how Apple operates their business.
That is similar to what happen with the Apple watch...several years of speculations and probably we will have it by next April.
High end manufacturers (not talking supercar low volume manufacturers like Maserati or Ferrari here) are Audi, Mercedes, Lexus, BMV, Infiniti, Volvo, Cadillac, Tesla, Accura, etc. So, yes they will. Unless your telling me they're going to compete with mass market Toyotas, Honda and Kias?
As with the iPod, an MP3 player, the iCar will come out well after others have tilled the ground so Apple can swoop in with a "complete solution" hard for its consumers to say no to. Better batteries by then, a fleet of charging stations in place, the regs for self driving cars already beyond beta, and debugged. Insurance and repairs and other services already in place.
The only question is who's gigafactory will be bigger? Tesla's in TX or Apple's offshore? The closest Apple can get to Cupertino is 13 mi offshore in international waters.
cite:
DroneRules02192015.pdf
Oh, and as I keep saying while being talked around, ...
http://www.magnasteyr.com/capabilities/vehicle-engineering-contract-manufacturing
Rocketman
The only question is who's gigafactory will be bigger? Tesla's in TX or Apple's offshore? The closest Apple can get to Cupertino is 13 mi offshore in international waters.
cite:
DroneRules02192015.pdf
cite said:
Oh, and as I keep saying while being talked around, ...
http://www.magnasteyr.com/capabilities/vehicle-engineering-contract-manufacturing
Rocketman
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Maybe in 5 years the prices will drop quite a bit. The Chevy Volt should be cheaper too.
And for all we know, that could have been the plan but Apple changed the date because it wasn't ready. Same applies for the Apple TV. They're probably waiting on better technology. I guess we'd find out in due time.
I don't think Apple will be manufacturing cars at all; hence my first post.
I do not believe this one iota; there is simply not enough profit in cars for Apple $$
The article, however, implies that they will be competing with the electric vehicles from Tesla and GM that will cost under $40,000. This hardly screams high end to me...
Unless you believe that these manufacturers are also planning to produce vehicles of the same calibre? A high end electric car for under $40,000? Hardly their kind of thing.
But at least if it accidentally gets wet you can get a refurb for a $25,000 deductible.
If Apple wants to be like Samsung they are off to a terrible start. You can count all of their products on two hands and fit them all on one table. It would take them centuries at this rate to catch up to Samsung. And why would they want to? The two couldn't be more opposite.
What's the problem with EVs now? They don't have a great range, they're expensive and there is no real EV charging station infrastructure. That doesn't sound like a market Apple would jump into right now. It sounds like a market that Apple would explore with R&D for about 5 years until the technology catches up with the vision. They've done it for every single product they've ever made so a car is no different.
There's no way Apple was planning to ship 10 sensors in the watch as of June but by September we only got one.