Yes, screw home automation when IOT has even bigger fish in the sea like advancing medical technology, architecture, agriculture, and a whole lot more
It's becoming obvious from your posts and the way you refer to literally EVERYONE here as an "Apple fanboy" that you're far more likely trolling than here for any real discussion since one who hates Apple as much as you do and shows so much contempt for them and their users would not visit such a forum for any other reason. I could point out that Google has a lot of projects and that the iPad has found its way into many of those fields as well, but you'll just spit out some BS nonsense and call everyone on the forum a fanboy again. (yawn)
And when it comes to TECHNOLOGY, Self driving > EV any day of the week.
You don't seem to know the difference between a fact and your personal opinion. Personally, I think some of us would prefer to not let a computer do the driving (takes all the fun out of driving, something Millennials don't seem to comprehend as they'd rather play with their phones than join the real world and LIVE). So while if they solve the battery/charging issues, I could see myself driving an EV some day, I would never willingly own a self-driving vehicle. Thus, how is that greater than an electric vehicle? Nothing quite like letting a computer drive you off a cliff, eh? When a self-driving car kills a member of you family, who are you going to sue, pray tell? The entire idea of self-driving vehicles is fraught with problems no company can easily fix. Do you want to be responsible for your car killing someone when you weren't driving? I didn't think so. But you will be held accountable for manslaughter just the same because SOMEONE has to pay. Self-driving cars = FAIL (to put it in terms Millennials can understand since they seem massively fond of that word for some bizarre reason along with "haters").
Apple is notorious for lagging behind tech ever since Jobs' passing. This is proven fact. And the decline in stock is a good indicator.
You say it's a proven
fact, but I don't see any PROOF. That sure seems like trolling to me.
BTW, you don't think Self driving cars wouldn't have a manual control? That's dumb to think considering this technology has been put on planes for a very long time.
I think a few things about self-driving cars, oddly enough, but you're not really interested in hearing. I'll state a few anyway. One is that a self-driving car that you have to watch like a hawk isn't much of a stress-reliever. If you have to be able to take over at any second, it won't do squat to help those that are disabled and need such a car to begin with. Sure, such cars will have manual controls in the beginning, but looking at the FIT Google had when they were told their cars MUST have a steering wheel in them (not their idea of a "manual control" it seems), I'd say it's not such a "dumb" idea to think they are aiming for something closer to the Johnny Cab in Total Recall in the not-so-distant future as soon as they can bribe (ahem "lobby") enough key people to get what they want. There's a fair chance for a future push to ban human drivers under some banner of "safety" I'm sure which comes back to the Millennials don't know what real fun is or that a life without any risks isn't worth living.
Pilots use AP all the time and have set waypoints. So, by that notion, you don't trust the airlines as well?
I think a troll said that. I don't recall talking about airplanes or airline pilots at all.
Besides, a plane isn't sitting 6 feet away from another plane in the sky and pilots are getting paid to sit there and watch the plane like a hawk. To sell a self-driving car to a consumer it has to actually represent a VALUE (e.g. you get to play with your iPhone or Android phone on your commute to work rather than spending it watching the road) rather than just some notion that it might be a better/safer driver than you. Plus MOST people speed their arses off (the rest drive under the limit) and they would be massively frustrated by a car that drives like a 90-year old woman, purposely going UNDER the speed limit and taking 10x the precautions a human would need because it can't read human behavior like an actual human can at intersections, etc. I know my boss wouldn't be thrilled to hear I was late to work because I left on time, but my car drove too damn slow while my friend left 10 minutes after me and got there on time just the same.
If you knew a single damn thing about the stock market, you would know that today's market runs PURELY on SPECULATION (i.e. gambling). It doesn't matter what Apple's stock is actually worth. it NOSE DIVED the first year after the iPhone came out to $80-some (the old eighty-some before the stock split). Was it plummeting because it was worthless or was it plummeting because people are afraid and not too bright? I'd say the latter. it was a good time to buy, though as my shares went up over 800% before I sold them for a cool half million. I'm sure you did much better, though right?
