Apple car.... I hope Tim doesn't decide to make the car thin and light. I wouldn't want a car I can bend with my hands.
Not all Engineers are visionary. Some simply like a lot of beans.![]()
Why isn't solar enough? My solar panels on my roof generate enough power for two electric cars and my home. My utility bill is zero.Except it isn't. How do you charge those cars? Oh yes electricity. How do you produce electricity? Burning oil and gas. Sticking a solar panel or a wind turbine here and there is not going to cut it.
Hydrogen is the way to go. Sadly only Honda have made any serious attempt at it.
Lol, who exactly are you wanting to fix that??? *genuinely confused*
This is an article about Apple & Tesla... unless your car is a Tesla, I don't see how "they" (either company) would have a damn thing to do with your car manufacturer and/or stereo manufacturer supporting new hardware.
People said the same thing when Apple entered the CE industry with iPod and when they entered the mobile phone industry with iPhone and that turned out pretty ok for them.
And what did Elon Musk, someone best known for founding PayPal at the time, know about cars?
I don't know why people keep underestimating Apple. With more money than all the auto manufacturers combined, I'm pretty certain they can build a lust-worthy, best of breed car if they put their minds to it.
However, now they want to start manufacturing automobiles, which they have very little experience in doing and have very little overlap with their current products. I'm sorry this makes absolutely no sense at all. If this is true stockholders should be flipping out and demanding everyone involved in those decisions be fired.
It doesn't make sense because it isn't true. The article doesn't come close to implying that Apple is planning on building a car, even though MR stretches the material they've got far beyond the breaking point. The discussion about cars is just over-active imaginations running amok.
It doesn't make sense because it isn't true. The article doesn't come close to implying that Apple is planning on building a car, even though MR stretches the material they've got far beyond the breaking point. The discussion about cars is just over-active imaginations running amok.
NEW RUMOR DE JOUR: APPLE IS WORKING ON A CAR
Bryan Chaffin, writing for The Mac Observer:
But what I learned is that Apple has been looking for — and acquiring — the kind of people from Tesla with expertise that is most suited to cars. So much so that I went from being a doubter to a believer almost instantly.
From another source who travels in more rarified circles than yours truly, I also learned that a lot of people at the top in Silicon Valley consider it a given that Apple is working on a car. This is circumstantial, at best, but if you’re going to crowd-source wisdom, you could do a lot worse than polling the C-suite.
I should add that when I asked one of my sources flat out to put a percentage chance on Apple working on an actual car — rather than some kind of car-related technology — I was told, “80 percent.”
I know nothing of any such project, and my first thought when Business Insider started this rumor was to roll my eyes. If you wanted me to bet, I’d bet against it. But, two thoughts:
Cars are a huge industry. As with phones, just a few percent market share can lead to enormous profits, especially with a higher-end product.
I know a lot of people at Apple, at all levels of the company, who love watches. I also know many who love cars.
★ Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Also, one of Apple's designers previously worked for Audi and Lamborghini.
come on, its got to be the Apple car, everyone else has been trying to make cars just to beat apple to the punch! /s
in all seriousness, it's not even reasonable to assume that Apple is working on a car.
More than likely it's either battery, or battery charging technology. Tesla isn't what it is because it's a battery powered car. That's been tried before. Tesla has gotten where it is because Musk invented a brand new form of Supercharging batteries.
I dont believe its the supercharger either that they're talking about, since Tesla and Elon Musk has already given use of that technology away for free. So it must be some form of high capacity battery.
thats the only thing from Apple i can see them working on to even come close to intersecting with Tesla's business
Apple's head of retail previously worked for Burberry. Ergo...
Oh I'm not suggesting anything. Just think its an interesting factoid that one of Apple's designers previously designed cars for Audi and Lamborghini.![]()
Industrial design is a portable talent. Just look at the variety of objects designed by Raymond Loewy: everything from cars to household objects and logos. When Apple starts hiring engineers with experience designing chassis, steering, braking, and power trains, you will let me know.![]()
Again I just thought it was interesting. Nothing more, nothing less.
Lol, no offense... but, how could one equate the skills of a very specifically disciplined engineer with unique knowledge of a particular category that there is not currently a vast field of expertise in, with a retail position in which (unless you reach the very highest levels of management), I don't think you need more than a GED & the very basest rudimentary math and language skills, coupled with the ability to smile.
You may be right, specialized knowledge is worth far more under-skilled labor, but you've offended me with your insensitive post. Just because I am stuck working in a low wage retail customer service job right now as a 20-something, doesn't mean I will be there for the rest of my career. I am working extremely hard to pay my way through college while making hard sacrifices. If you ever worked in big corporate retail for years, you too, would understand how we are underpaid and mistreated, especially when you consider how much profit the company in question makes.