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'Apple Car' Project Lead Steve Zadesky to Leave Apple
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The problem these days is that everything is disposable. I just upgraded my 2009 imac to a 1TB SSD and 3TB HDD by replacing the optical drive, a machine that was made to last, and will still be good years from now, the current tech from everyone is made to be replaced and not upgraded/repaired. New Cars these days are not that much better.
You said weekly security updates. Apple has never sent out weekly security updates--exaggeration.
You said charge every 100 feet only at Apple charging stations--Major exaggeration, and not based on any apple product; they all plug into standard wall outlets.
Obsolete after one year? Because Apple introduces a new model. It must kill you to trade in your Toyota every year, because that's what they do every year, too. I keep my cars about five years. I've been keeping my iPhone about two years, because I like the new features, but plenty of people keep iPhones longer than that. They aren't obsolete, just not the newest model on the showroom floor. Before iPhone (I started with the first model), I traded in my phone about every two years, so it's not an Apple thing.
If you drive your car all day, every day, you'll be dependent on refueling stations. This applies to ICE cars and also to electric cars not made by Apple.
I can't see anything in your objections (once I remove the exaggeration) that makes me worry about how an Apple car will perform. Whether it fits with what I need (room for seven or eight passengers, mainly) remains to be seen.
I think that is basically it with the added benefit of "Apple Car" being a convenient distraction for Wallstreet while Apple tries to come up with the next big thing.
I run a super car, not a Toyota.. That has a limited range by comparison to traditional cars, but the apple devices take the biscuit in term of tethering you to a wall plug. The phones simply have issues lasting a 16hrs waking day, thats not an exaggeration at all. In the same way the AW struggles to get through the day too.. so to link that to a car is not to stretch the likely hood at all.
iOS is full of hole and is constantly requiring security patches and updates.
iOS is currently ranked the most exposed platform from a security point of view, thats not an exaggeration.
iOS currently doesn't run at all well on 2y/o devices. my 5Ss struggle in terms of performance and fluidity or use under the latest version of iOS that was downloaded last week..
These issue make for a real problem in a connected car, IoT and driverless cars are going to need to be much more secure than iOS is right now thats for sure. Apple don't like to play with other was the inference of what i was getting at. The ecosystem is all including and thats bad for consumers in the same way as legislation was released across the EU to stop traditional car manufactures doing that very thing.
iOS is full of hole and is constantly requiring security patches and updates.
iOS is currently ranked the most exposed platform from a security point of view, thats not an exaggeration.
iOS currently doesn't run at all well on 2y/o devices. my 5Ss struggle in terms of performance and fluidity or use under the latest version of iOS that was downloaded last week..
These issue make for a real problem in a connected car, IoT and driverless cars are going to need to be much more secure than iOS is right now thats for sure. Apple don't like to play with other was the inference of what i was getting at. The ecosystem is all including and thats bad for consumers in the same way as legislation was released across the EU to stop traditional car manufactures doing that very thing.
If you read his patents the vast majority of them are undergrad level BS Mechanical Engineering class curriculum applied to novel ideas of long standing applied non-modern physics. In short, when you have billions of dollars and research labs that are world class, you can create the 1,000th novel use of a forced dampening sensor and get a patent.
Repeat and rinse. Losing him isn't losing someone of innovative ideas for Electric Cars. As a fellow ME I salute his work more as a manager of talent than a design engineer; and certainly not as a research engineer.
Repeat and rinse. Losing him isn't losing someone of innovative ideas for Electric Cars. As a fellow ME I salute his work more as a manager of talent than a design engineer; and certainly not as a research engineer.
This is soap... One guy is leaving Apple and the most weird conspiracy theories are popping up everywhere. It's ALL pure speculation about the question WHY this guy is leaving Apple. It could also be that he just prefer to go fishing 24/7 instead of dealing with stress all of the time.
With this amount of years working at Apple he will be even able to do just that.
With this amount of years working at Apple he will be even able to do just that.
Neither my iPhone nor my Apple Watch have any problem getting through a typical day for me. Your problems are not mine, and if or when Apple releases a car, I'll decide whether its capabilities and features are a fit with my needs and wants. It truly may not. And it may not fit yours either, but your individual needs and wants won't be a factor in my decision. Not even a little bit.
Tony Fadell tweeted that him leaving would be a big loss for Apple. Is Fadell wrong or is the sneering just because he wasn't part of the NeXT club?
"The Project has encountered some challenges internally due to a lack of clear goals, according to the report."
That's a quote you'd expect from the Sculley era.
That's a quote you'd expect from the Sculley era.
I suggest grabbing a dictionary and looking up the definition for the word "rumor"
I never got my set of Apple collectible trading cards. So I don't really know who Steve Zadesky is, or Tony Fadell for that matter. Maybe Tony and Steve were lunch buddies and Tony is going to miss their mealtime chats. Maybe Steve is just an all around good guy that everyone likes, and Apple thought they would do him a solid by sending out a semi-official tweet praising him, even though Steve's successor Eve Harrington is ready, willing, and able to fill his role.
When the final story is ready to be told, and someone is ready to tell it, we'll find out if this ranks in the top ten of actual setbacks to Apple producing its car.
This! I got a lot of flack for saying this in an Apple Display thread a few days ago. I think Apple needs to shed some products in order to focus on making their core products more innovative.
Tony Fadell was brought on to work on the iPod. He ran iPod engineering for a while and worked on the first three generations of iPhone.
Except not everything posted on MR is a rumor. What's so difficult about throwing 'reportedly' in the title as other sites did?
It's not mine, in the same way mine are not yours...
It's pretty universal accepted by the openminded that the iPhone and watch have battery issues.. hence why iPhone users are known as wall huggers.. Which, by nature pretty much means it's not limited to my usage pattern or device!
Thanks for pointing out your needs don't factor based on mine, but thats pretty much a given for all of us..
Not all other sites, this is the source for the MacRumors article...
Apple Veteran Overseeing Electric-Car Project Leaving Company
Precisely why Google will win with cars as well. They will leave the actual manufacturing to people who know what they're doing. Apple is apparently far too arrogant to realize how disastrous and unprofitable their current strategy will be.
You may think that Google is ran by monkeys, but when I look at their current investment portfolio, then look at Apple's, it's quite clear that Google is the company of the future and Apple just isn't. I don't get any enjoyment from saying that, I think Apple has so much potential, but they're wasting it on a bunch of half baked ideas that will never make a dime.
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Have you ever worked on a car? They are half electronic nowadays. and an electric car is even more electronic.
Back in 2007 the cellphone industry was completely separate form the pc industry. Virtually no overlap.
Apple would hire Foxconn to open a plant in Mexico to build automobiles. Apple has billions in the bank so money in no problem. As for experience manufacturing cars, look at the videos of manufacturing process, it's comparable, machines do the hard work and people do the finishing touches.
Upgrade cycle is a moot point. Apple is a growth stock. Investors want to see growth. Apple would go from no marketshare to possibly a lot of marketshare. So stock prices would go up for a long time until Apple finally plateaus.
Electric cars are 10x better for a lot of people.
Self-driving tech is AI.