Apple Car Won't Be Ready for At Least Half a Decade

[ericwn]

Spoken like a true follower, bet you have Apple listed as a benefactor in your will..

8 posts in and the first name calling.

 

[iapplelove]

I rather them make auto correct better in iOS.

 

[ericwn]

They couldn't put fingerprint sensor in their news phones. What do you expect.

Yup, because it’s so easy to just have someone produce like 100-150 million extra of those on the spot.

 

[LeadingHeat]

6 years out? Great, now Samsung will have a chance to rush something to market and beat out Apple

 

[ericwn]

Apple Car will never exist.

Apple will never make a video iPod.

 

[ericwn]

WOW. give up already.

The Ford electric mustang has caught up to Tesla in range and SPEED.

Now let’s just catch them in numbers.

 

[stevet]

great, can the articles about it stop?

 

[ericwn]

So many conflicting rumors and reports. Apple car, Apple HD TV Are they going to exist? No one knows. Even Apple doesn't even know at this point.

Apple does.

 

[farewelwilliams]

Palm
Blackberry
Motorola
Windows Phone

“There’s no way a computer company could ever make a Pho—Ohhhhhhhh. Never mind.”

All of those were hard to use and Apple solved it.

What problem is Apple going to solve with EVs that Tesla hasn't solved or won't solve in the next 5 years?

 

[stevet]

What are you talking about? Tesla already has vehicles with 400+ miles of range and quicker than the Mach-E, and the next generation Plaid vehicles should put a massive gap between it and the Mach-E. Ford doesn't even try to compare the Mach-E against Tesla's vehicles because they'd lose that comparison so soundly.

Eh, not for the same money. And as a Tesla owner the real world miles that the car does isn’t what’s advertised.

 

[stevet]

Did anyone actually think it was going to come out this year, or next? Personally, I think 5 years is still pretty optimistic.

For the amount of time and money that they’ve sunk into this based on the reports, yes I’m surprised.

 

[LeeW]

8 posts in and the first name calling.

Oh boo hoo.

 

[Runs For Fun]

Nobody should be surprised by this. Did anyone seriously think an Apple Car was going to come out in the next 2 years?

 

[throAU]

Good. Personally I don't think Apple should be building a car themselves at all. They're starting from 100+ years behind the curve.

Far better would be to partner with a group of existing manufacturers to integrate their stuff into the cars made by people who actually know how to make cars.

 

[boss.king]

That doesn't surprise me at all. Apple is too big to roll them out like Tesla, they need to iron out all the kinks before launch and make sure it's 10000% safe.

Honestly, I'm still kinda skeptical that this will ever see the light of day.

 

[huge_apple_fangirl]

Wow, I guess Apple is really building a car. I don’t really see the logic of it, but Gurman is pretty reliable.

 

[huge_apple_fangirl]

Ford began selling the Ford Ranger EV in 1998, five years before Tesla formed and a decade before Tesla sold their first vehicle.

They started selling their second electric vehicle, the Ford C Max Energy a year before Tesla introduced the Model S.

So if having done this for longer is a benefit, that’d be Ford’s, not Tesla’s. Ford is behind Tesla because the company is inferior, not because they’re new to the game.

Tesla has the advantage of not having to deal with the UAW.

 

[ericwn]

Oh boo hoo.

Oh how mature.

 

[bparzonz]

No way. There's way too much competition for them to wait that long. The only chance they have is if they mass produce before other manufactures cannibalize EV market share

 

[ericwn]

Nobody should be surprised by this. Did anyone seriously think an Apple Car was going to come out in the next 2 years?

No. I don’t think this filler content is a surprise to anyone.

 

[Braderunner]

Tesla has over 2 billion miles recorded and user data. Apple doesn't have ANY data if they're trying to do self-driving which I'm sure they're aiming for.

So what? Take existing technologies, and make them better. Apple is better at that...than anyone.
But, the point of my reply was that if anyone thinks, in five years, Apple will have a car that is only where Tesla is today...

 

[hot-gril]

I'm sure Apple is also cooking up crazy new ideas. On top of that, Apple won't have the cash problem that Tesla did when it first started. Just sayin'.

Even more telling that they have all this cash and still no car. But I always like to see more competition.

 

[hot-gril]

Porsche already makes a better performance Model S. It’s more expensive, but it’s faster, better looking, higher quality, and it’s a Porsche.

Less than half the range. And personally I'd take the Tesla brand over the Porsche brand, if only for the charging network.
Funny thing is Porsche's first ever car was electric. https://www.history.com/news/ferdinand-porsches-first-car-was-electric

 

[hot-gril]

Palm
Blackberry
Motorola
Windows Phone

“There’s no way a computer company could ever make a Pho—Ohhhhhhhh. Never mind.”

But everything you listed was uninspired or riding on past success. That's not Tesla right now.

 

[Sarkany]

If it’s anything like iPhones...Why buy a car you will never own or be able to modify without Apple’s proprietary parts? 😂