Samsung has been making cars for... 20 years!
BTW, Samsung is an asian-type conglomerate, and it has been making cars since 1995. Now owned at 80% by Renault-Nissan, it has been gearing up its production in 2013 and plans to become a major Korean player in the next few years.
So why wouldn't Apple make cars? In the early 2000's, it already made kind of an iPad, and it was a flop (innovating to early when the consumers are not ready is not a good thing); in 2007, even after a few months, the iPhone was denounced by lots of people (consumers and "professionals") as a heresy! Now, when the world thinks about Apple, iPhones come to mind first... And how about the iPod, which everyone seems to have forgotten!
IBM is an American example of such a great company: whatever one says about IBM "as we know it now" (Lenovo laptops, 3" floppy disks, PC, etc.), this company was created more than 100 years ago, and always managed to innovate and adapt to an ever-changing world, accordingly with up and downs.
Oh wait! Just like Apple and its pretty big "down" in the late 90's, before Jobs came back and turned Apple into a "walkman" (WalkMan, what's that? say the kids around!...) manufacturer! Then decided to go fight with the almighty Blackberry and Nokia (remember how big these were, we thought the world would never change!).
So Apple making a car, a watch, a TV set, why not? Apple's strength: when they do something, they try and make it work.
BTW, Samsung is an asian-type conglomerate, and it has been making cars since 1995. Now owned at 80% by Renault-Nissan, it has been gearing up its production in 2013 and plans to become a major Korean player in the next few years.
So why wouldn't Apple make cars? In the early 2000's, it already made kind of an iPad, and it was a flop (innovating to early when the consumers are not ready is not a good thing); in 2007, even after a few months, the iPhone was denounced by lots of people (consumers and "professionals") as a heresy! Now, when the world thinks about Apple, iPhones come to mind first... And how about the iPod, which everyone seems to have forgotten!
IBM is an American example of such a great company: whatever one says about IBM "as we know it now" (Lenovo laptops, 3" floppy disks, PC, etc.), this company was created more than 100 years ago, and always managed to innovate and adapt to an ever-changing world, accordingly with up and downs.
Oh wait! Just like Apple and its pretty big "down" in the late 90's, before Jobs came back and turned Apple into a "walkman" (WalkMan, what's that? say the kids around!...) manufacturer! Then decided to go fight with the almighty Blackberry and Nokia (remember how big these were, we thought the world would never change!).
So Apple making a car, a watch, a TV set, why not? Apple's strength: when they do something, they try and make it work.
