Would you like to negotiate with Musk and his oddball behaviors? Doubtful. As for spending the money...you cannot know what you can do or not do until you try.
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Apple Car's Decade of Development and 'Failure' Detailed in New Report
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This is the biggest blunder of Apple in decades, even if they can afford it. So many mistakes along the way, including the historical miss on buying Tesla out.
The fact that Xiaomi could design and develop a beautiful and interesting car...
I think ultimately Apple just doesn't have the right culture for automotive.
The fact that Xiaomi could design and develop a beautiful and interesting car...
I think ultimately Apple just doesn't have the right culture for automotive.
Musk made smart move, purchased Tesla.
and one of the reasons Apple might have failed is because they probably focused on FSD, they thought they could release car with FSD, instead of taking Tesla's approach of incremental software updates to make FSD work, just a thought.
and one of the reasons Apple might have failed is because they probably focused on FSD, they thought they could release car with FSD, instead of taking Tesla's approach of incremental software updates to make FSD work, just a thought.
It’s amazing that one of, if not the richest companies in the world can’t do this, but so many new EV companies have started from nothing in a relatively short space of time.
Ever product Apple makes is manufactured by Contract Manufacturers.
What makes you think Contract Manufacturers hate Apple ?
And their quality sucks. You probably didnt check it after all. This is why most of them only sells within China, not else.
I am still heart broken over this.
I wanted a thin, non-replaceable battery vehicle with car play.
Clearly they see that self driving isn’t happening in our lifetime as much as some Tesla Stans believe so. Though they’ve finally come around and seeing that robo taxis will never happen.
But I digress…
Seriously guys it’s a loss for us not to have an apple car.
Think about the day if the first Apple car accident happened.
We won’t get that comment “you’re driving it wrong”.
So sad 😞
I wanted a thin, non-replaceable battery vehicle with car play.
Clearly they see that self driving isn’t happening in our lifetime as much as some Tesla Stans believe so. Though they’ve finally come around and seeing that robo taxis will never happen.
But I digress…
Seriously guys it’s a loss for us not to have an apple car.
Think about the day if the first Apple car accident happened.
We won’t get that comment “you’re driving it wrong”.
So sad 😞
The fact that Apple failed to contract with all companies is a great proof. They did not work with Apple after all.
USB C was game changer, TBH, it changed my world, similar to how iPhone revolutionized mobile phone market.
I can transfer data really fast, i transfer TBs data multiple times a day.
Don't understand how Apple missed that people transfer lot of data using lightning multiple times a day.
every apple product except AirPods have replaceable battery.
An Apple car... imagine going to get a cracked windshield replaced but the shop doing the work has to both use a genuine Apple windshield and they have to run the system configuration tool to pair it to the Apple car otherwise the infotainment screen will constantly nag you about not having a genuine part
"Unable to verify if this Apple Car has a genuine Apple windshield"
🤣
"Unable to verify if this Apple Car has a genuine Apple windshield"
🤣
It just never made sense to me getting into such a complex and small margin business. What makes more sense is expanding Apple Car Play and patterning with some existing car manufactures to basically take over the brains/infotainment.
Richness has nothing to do with ability and execution. It's about leadership and resources. Money alone doesn't buy engineers if those engineers don't want to join the company or see a future with Apple in transportation.
Apple can't design a 5G modem even after so many years and it's supposedly in their wheelhouse.
It it was Steve Jobs’ time, nobody would know apple was building car.
That’s your illusion. Chinese EVs have 8.2% of EV market share in Europe.
The Verge made fun of the reports of the car design but seems clear this wasn’t meant to be a sedan or SUV that someone drove. What I don’t understand is how it took the company this long to realize FSD is nowhere close to being on the horizon.
You can’t compare a self driving car to any of those products.
No, because as reported previously Musk was only interested if he became CEO…of Apple.
Like I said, already expected.
Only 8.2%? Too bad then. It only proves my point after all.
I truly think it became a skunkworks division that did a ton of various R&D (judging from the patents). It may have started with a focus on cars but it seems to have morphed into the equivalent of a Bell Labs basic R&D project several years back.
Lotta cool stuff regarding Smart Fabrics and transparent display tech ended up getting patented from Project Titan.
This right here should have killed the project. 🤯
Also this contradicts the narrative that the whole thing was a Jony Ive vanity project.
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Because Sony had a partnership with Honda and supports from Japan.
Seems like Tim’s indecision was the reason the project ultimately failed, so I guess he’d have to fire himself.
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