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Report: Apple Chose to Develop Apple Car Alone to Avoid Further Delays, Currently Selecting Suppliers
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Or Apple will release a great car well integrated with Siri, CarPlay, Maps, Apple Music, AirTag, CarKey, Face ID, HomeKit, and iPhone as well as incorporating wireless charging, self-driving, and augmented reality technology that will blow people's socks off and make naysayers look dumb.
Most people don't realize the opportunity electric cars present to a technology company like Apple. Tesla is as much a "car" company as a technology company. Musk himself even calls Tesla an AI company. Tesla hosts AI Day for crying out loud. Does Volkswagen do AI? I don't think so. But Microsoft does, Google does, and Apple does.
What is a car? A car nowadays is a computer on wheels. The advantages in mechanical engineering that traditional car companies like Volkswagen and Ford Motor have have been greatly reduced by the electrification of cars. People have an emotional attachment to sticks, to the humming of gas engines, and to classic cars like Jaguar E-Type and the Corvette in the 60s. That's all well and good. But that's not a rational basis to deny the kind of success Apple as a technology company can have in this industry.
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Part of their merger Churchill Capital Corp IV was saying they would provide cars by Q2, 2021. A lot of us who bought into the stock under this fact is suing them. You can give estimates as a company, but lying about actual plans in order to pump your valuation is illegal and morally wrong on so many levels. Lucid is nothing but an expensive scam (so far). I can't stop thinking of Theranos every time I look at my portfolio and see the stock.
If VinFast can do it, surely Apple can do it and Vingroup only started in 2017.
You overestimated how hard making a car is. It's hard, but it's not so hard that Apple can't do it.
I still don’t think it will be a car to buy. Apple is moving to a service company and creating an autonomous car fleet, which can be requested via Apple Maps or Siri to pick you up, would totally make sense for the future.
In 2007, lots of people said Apple was making a huge mistake getting into the low profit industry of cell phones.
Not even close. That was familiar ground to Apple since they already had years/decades of experience producing computing devices and the iPod was their springboard for mobile devices. The scale here is far different.
Buying a $1,000(+) iPhone is one thing, but somebody plonking 5 figures on a car just because it has a cute logo........? Automobile manufacturing, sales, service and warranties are a tricky and whole different ball game. Unless apple has some type of disruptive offering (like the iPhone did to mobiles), I am not sure where this will go.
$ before number, how many times do I have to remind you savages
These are the same hurdles all car manufacturers face. Are you saying because phones have issues and apple makes phones that their cars will have issues more so than what other car manufacturers face?
The guy that was in charge of the Apple car left and went to Ford... The guy in charge of it now came from the Apple Watch team... I am not filled with confidence. Car manufacturers know their business and there is a reason none of them have agreed to work with Apple.
The side of the road to being an automobile manufacturer is littered with people who thought it was easy to build a car.
We don’t know what contracts have or have not been signed nor if the invited parties had an immediate interest.
One seems to have the potential to bring back financial results while the other one brings a few millionaires closer to space.
building a car is just the first step before building trucks, drones, robots, planes, aircraft carrier, spaceships and spaceships carrier. All available in 8 pastel colors;
Apple’s DNA is selling designer products to end users. They’ve never even been real great at selling to businesses. Rockets are not something you are going to sell to end customers. Nor are rockets differentiated by their designs.
But Bezos and Branson want to start a space tourism service ... Apple is big on services nowadays ...
Not until Apple enters that business …
Come on, I should have put a /s into my post … it was a joke.
Bezos and Branson are definitely men in midlife crisis when I look at that project and Stunt they pulled off…
but back on subject, a different viewpoint is that none of the traditional automakers wanted to team up with Apple…