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Apple Partners With South Korean Company to Develop Hollow Batteries for 'Project Titan' Car Project

JimmyJimmyYam said:
*Sigh* the Apple car isn't even a thing yet, and already they're seeking smaller / thinner batteries for it?!? I tolerate my iPhone battery life, I avoided the Apple Watch v1 largely because of daily charging, and the electric car that wins is going to be the one with range. Thinner isn't better! The same size with a higher capacity would be MUCH better.
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Yes, and they're also going to remove the headphone jack.

You don't think they're maybe considering range at all?
 
now i see it said:
Apple phone wakes you up
Apple Watch goes on your wrist
Apple Jacks for breakfast (why not?)
Apple car to Apple train station
Apple train to work (at Apple)
Apple computer during the day
Apple for lunch

Where will it end?
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The Apple Coffin, obviously.

"Introducing the Apple Séance!"

I was wrong, but my soul is ready.
 
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kdarling said:
Apple didn't patent the idea, Swedish based BAE did.

It looks like Apple simply bought it. According to the thread article:
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Probably they can only have or buy a patent on a technical detail. Any patent for the idea itself would have expired a long time ago.
A Germen engineer (Franz Kruckenberg) had a patent for an articulating train in 1928. There have been trials in the 1960s and such trains have been in commercial service in the 1980 in avarious countries.

Christian
 
fastasleep said:
Yes, and they're also going to remove the headphone jack.

You don't think they're maybe considering range at all?
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I'm sure they are, but empirical evidence suggests the trade-offs they make with battery life in other products aren't aligned with my personal preferences.
 
now i see it said:
Apple phone wakes you up
Apple Watch goes on your wrist
Apple Jacks for breakfast (why not?)
Apple car to Apple train station
Apple train to work (at Apple)
Apple computer during the day
Apple for lunch

Where will it end?
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Apple dirt on top of your coffin
 
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christian_koehler said:
Probably they can only have or buy a patent on a technical detail. Any patent for the idea itself would have expired a long time ago.
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Right, it's not a patent on the idea of articulating vehicles, but instead a patent on an air heated connector between sections.

It's really meant for a cold weather military transport, and includes claims on armoring such a passage. Why Apple wanted the rights to it, is not understood. Maybe they're going to do self driving city buses in Detroit ?? :)

I'm on my iPad, but let me see if I can post a pic. Here we go:

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The patent is for blowing air through a radiator to warm up connector 50, a piece through which steering, fuel, hydraulics and ammo can be passed.

Definitely one of the oddest Apple IP acquisitions. It's reportedly related to another patent on mutual steering between sections, so maybe it's part of a package deal.

Or maybe Samsung needed this patent for one of their Korean military division projects, and Cook's going to use it as leverage for OLED pricing. Just kidding, but so weird!
 
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Designx said:
Maybe the spaceship can take off and land somewhere in China where it should be. That's where the future market and tech will be. Building it here I think was a mistake - especially in California.
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There is a thing in the valley called the "Big Campus Curse."

Whenever a large tech firm moves into a new big campus they built, the company takes a huge fiscal hit within two years. Intel, Adobe, old Apple (moving into Inifinite Loop) and even AMD had these issues. Sell stock after the hype of the new campus completion is complete.

My guess is Tim will not stay long after the mothership is done.
 
the mac line is 4 years old and Timmy is peddling a future apple car and watch bands

I wish the CEO of Xiaomi would buy apple and fire Tim, at least they care and they are responsive to their customers

Jonny Ive needs to be replaced with the designer of the Nuc Skull Candy, the little speedy monster from Intel
 
Because batteries create most heat from the center due to chemical reactions, this company has created batteries where air flow and cooling are smooth in the center of batteries and this can minimize installation of separate cooling device or a device that prevents over-heating. They are also advantageous in high output. By utilizing this space, it is easy to design parallel connection, which is to expand battery capacity, in these batteries.
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That's an interesting design and seems to make sense for a heat dissipation method. My first thought when reading that was how the Mac Pro was designed to be round and expel heat from the top center.

I'm quite curious to see what kind of car Apple ends up releasing, if they release one. Although, I doubt it would be in my price range...
 
TheRealTVGuy said:
Interesting... the same thing happened to them in Las Vegas: http://azdailysun.com/monorail-open...cle_6ecfbb6f-5d65-581a-bc69-906c2f2c4606.html and also at The Walt Disney World Resort in the late 80's/early 90's.
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How do they still get contracts with this history? Amazing. In our case they're years behind schedule. It's pretty sad. We're opening a new underground streetcar line around 2021, and there have actually been reports that they may not make enough streetcars to replace the old fleet AND fill this new line.

I sure hope they catch up by then. Our old streetcars don't have AC. It's been brutal riding them this summer.
 
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