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Apple's work on the Apple Car has "lost all visibility" at the current time, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. He says that if Apple does not adopt some kind of acquisition strategy to make inroads in the automotive market, it is unlikely that the Apple Car will be able to go into mass production "within the next years."

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It is true that there have been few Apple Car rumors in 2023, giving us little insight into what Apple is up to at the current time. One recurring theme in Apple Car development has been reports of internal strife over the direction of the project and the ultimate goal of the Apple Car.

Prior rumors suggested that Apple would begin testing on the Apple Car in 2025, with Apple aiming to provide a vehicle to consumers in 2026, but now that we are closing in on 2024, it seems unlikely that Apple will make that timeline with how little we've heard about work on the Apple Car this year.

Apple seems to be putting a lot of focus on the Vision Pro headset at the current time, and the last Apple Car update came in March 2023. At that time, Economic Daily News suggested that Apple had made improvements to the self-driving capabilities of the Apple Car and was expanding its testing, but there's been no word since then.

Late last year, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that Apple had significantly scaled back its Apple Car project and no longer had plans to release a fully autonomous vehicle. Apple was aiming to design a car without a steering wheel or pedals, but decided that such a plan is not feasible. Instead, the car will allegedly have guided driving features that work on highways, but will not operate on its own at all times.

Apple has not yet established a manufacturing partner for the Apple Car, so Kuo's suggestion that we may not see any sign of an Apple Car in the next few years without major changes makes sense.

Article Link: Kuo: Development of Apple Car Has 'Lost All Visibility'
 
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Now what *does* make perfect sense to me would be Apple standardizing the sometimes horrific infotainment systems that are in cars. Apple CarPlay is a good first step in that direction, and supposedly Porsche is enabling that to get deeper into their own systems at some point.
 
You can tell who's a fool by seeing if they thought Apple was going to make a car.

Apple was never going to make a car. Apple is a high profit, low risk company. Cars are inherently massive risk, no profit.

They will wait until cars become software, then they will move hard into it.

But think about it - 5000 iphones is about the same amount of metal to make a car. 1 plane can move around 5,000 iphones or 10,000 watches especially with their smaller and smaller packges (now without charger).

That's literally bricks of money being moved at a plane load at a time.

Now think cars, they need massive investment in the $10B range, they need to move these cars via boat ONLY and they need to store these cars at storage facilities.

On top of that they only make $5000-8000 per car, and then have to maintain their fleet.

There's no benefit.
 
Apple car has always been a rumor created by the Kuos of this world…
I have always doubted it as we would have had to see prototypes on the road or on tracks already, and there have been no reports of that.
And then look at the market overall, the traditional car manufacturers are all struggling to keep up with Tesla, and no one else (Rivian etc) has achieved significant market share, and then there are the Chinese mfg (BYD etc) who seem to have competitive offerings but they’ll n not go on sale in the US at least with the current political relations.
 
Apple car has always been a rumor created by the Kuos of this world…
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