Hey, look at me! I don't know what a ferry is, and am happy to make a fool of myself while trying to come off as clever.Hope it's submersible.
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Sketchy Report Says Apple Car is Years Ahead of Schedule, Will Debut Next Year
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Tesla started that way because the autonomous driving technology wasn't mature enough at that time, the way Henry Ford's Model A didn't have air conditioning.
Apple could release some sort of electric car with a hodge-podge of various technologies, many of which have already been demonstrated before in one form or another by other manufacturers.
Hell, active noise cancellation in the passenger compartment? Done, decades ago.
Apple will not attract world-class engineering talent by creating some sort of Frankencar.
Silicon Valley's top engineers in this domain routinely jump ship. For Apple to release some co-branded auto with assisted parking and a voice-activated entertainment system would be completely pathetic.
It would be like releasing an Apple Silicon Mac that was maybe 90% as good as last year's models from Acer or Huawei.
Remember, we're talking about a company that shocked the semiconductor industry by releasing an unexpected full 64-bit ARM processor for its high-volume product: the iPhone.
Apple isn't going to bolt Siri onto some random electric car and push it off the assembly line.
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Why the hell not? Are you under the impression that there are too many high quality products on the market?
If they can make a better mousetrap, I'll say 'have at it', and load up on Apple stock!
For a company as big as Apple it looks like the only way to keep beating it’s profit numbers yearly is to go with more big ticket items. So a car makes sense. But I’m sure it will be a very limited run for the first few years. If they can get the richest people to like it they will build up clout for a lower priced wider release by 2025.
This is completely incorrect.
Apple's fastest growing division is Services.
Apple is far better off selling one hundred $400 Apple Watches than one $40,000 Apple Car.
That’s the issue. Same with Tesla. And that’s the reason Tesla is considering a merger with an existing car company. The dealership infrastructure.
Tesla merging with another company is going to be a heck of a lot more difficult starting tomorrow.
They are joining the S&P 500 index.
They are joining the S&P 500 index.
The beauty of the tech industry giants is the nature of their products. Microsoft was able to become a modern giant merely shipping code. Google just making code available through their services. And Apple when their products shipped in tiny little boxes.
A supposed ‘Apple car’ sounds like the antithesis of that. It sounds like a dramatic headache of liabilities and infrastructure Apple doesn’t need. There is so much old industry friction in that compared to its current products.
I just don’t see it happening. To me this sounds more preposterous than the Apple television that a certain analyst kept predicting would ship soon.
A supposed ‘Apple car’ sounds like the antithesis of that. It sounds like a dramatic headache of liabilities and infrastructure Apple doesn’t need. There is so much old industry friction in that compared to its current products.
I just don’t see it happening. To me this sounds more preposterous than the Apple television that a certain analyst kept predicting would ship soon.
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Next year without any auto magazines spotting prototypes on road tests???
highly unlikely.
highly unlikely.
why not? Tesla did before it developed its own chassis. One has to crawl before they can walk.
It just needs a sleep/wake button. It’ll look like an iPhone probably with apple badge in front
Speaking of Ford... The first real reviews of the Mustang Mach E are coming out and it’s a home run. Doug DeMuro likes it better than the Tesla model Y and says it’s level of quality and assembly are outstanding.
Well, you learn something new every day. So Apple really could contract it out, how about that.
And Tesla's electric cars (without autonomous control) were simply electric cars.
Toyota (RAV4 EV) and Ford (EV1) productized these in the Nineties.
Tesla's did not innovate in some sort of revolutionary way. They just brought electric vehicles to the forefront of many people's brains and eventually made it acceptably mainstream.
That's completely different than autonomous driving technology which is heavily regulated and overseen by motor vehicle agencies.
Nothing new here.
I believe the Pontiac Vibe was actually a Toyota.
With globalization, it's hard to say where a car is from and who "built" it.
At one point, the Ford Mustang was made from >50% imported parts and components. If final assembly was done in Canada or Mexico, is that Mustang that you bought at a Ford dealership in Nebraska really an "American car" [sic]?
Or if I buy a Toyota RAV4 whose final assembly is in Kentucky, is it still an "Japanese car"?
Remember that Tesla's early production was done in Fremont, CA at the NUMMI plant, the GM-Toyota joint venture (if I recall correctly) taking advantage of unused capacity.
Well there was this reported about five years ago:
Apple in Discussions With Bay Area Test Track Focused on Self-Driving Cars
Apple's work on its much-rumored Apple Car is progressing, and the company is said to be scouting for secure locations in the Bay Area where the...
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I wouldn't hold ones breath. I think 'Apple Car' is actually a ride share service. You pay a monthly fee for access to self-driving cars (A car on demand more or less. And maybe choices on size and distance you need o go). I really don't think Apple wants to sell cars to people ala Tesla. It will roll out slowly from urban areas where they make the most sense and cities that are mapped the best. That's the only think that I can imagine Apple doing...but what the hell do I know...