Tim Cook Comments on Apple Car Rumors, Says There are Technologies That Will 'Revolutionize' Car Industry

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For a company who's legacy is search, they do a very good job in phones. Even the latest pixel is on par with Apple's iphone. I don't mention services where Apple doesn't even come close to google's offerings. I wonder what would happen if google decided to stop making their free products available for iOS. I can rely on Apple maps. Imagine no google search/now or maps on your iPhone...

Chromebooks are overtaking the educational market. A market Apple used to rule from a historical point of few.
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Tim Cook Comments on Apple Car Rumors, Says There are Technologies That Will 'Revolutionize' Car Industry.

Uh-huh, more new products in the pipeline, eh Tim?

He didn't tell you it would come from Apple. After five years of milking he has to prove I'm wrong.
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I wish Tim had substance.

He would be a terrific politician indeed. Talking and promising a lot, delivering nothing.

 

[576316]

"There are many technologies that might benefit the automobile industry. But it's cute you guys all think we're actually doing something right now. lol" - Tim Cook probably

 

[0958400]

Ehm...
"Yes, the new iPhone will be faster, feature a better camera and new technologies that will change everything."
and:
"Yes, the world is magical, it has exciting new features and technologies are in the pipeline that will change the world forever. - No, it has nothing to do with Apple, but its magical!"
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If Jobs were still alive, we wouldn't have this thread. We need to figure out a way to resurrect Jobs.

Forstall? He may have been annoying but he did have the spark that could pressure other people to deliver. Maybe there's a blueprint they are following with his dismissal, his return may be linked to Jobs' return...

 

[JEVjnd2024]

I used to believe Apple when they said things like that, but these days, I just don't anymore.

 

[blacktape242]

Hes going to put the headphone jack INSIDE the car!!!!!!

 

[ChrisCW11]

Meh, sorry. I am tired of Tim Cook's rhetoric about revolutionizing anything. Put up for shut up Tim. Constantly teasing about how great Apple WILL BE does not make him a good CEO. Apple has done nothing revolutionary since Tim Cook took over and its becoming almost a running joke every time Tim Cook claims about how great Apple will be, in the future, when they get around to it.

I have come to realize that over the last few years it's not really Apple that I no longer like, but it's Tim Cook's "Apple" that is painfully dissapointing. Maybe now that Apple has lower sales for the first time since 2001 the board of directors might wake up and realize Tim Cook is completely out of his depth and if they are not looking for a replacement by now then they will be in for a long shaky ride over the next few years.

Cars do not need a better user experience. I know full well what Apple is trying to do, they are trying to bring a million app platform into the car. They want to "appify" and monetize the user experience the car and I am sorry but just like the Watch platform, cars do not need a million apps an consumers are not interested in that. Given how bad Apple has failed with potentially useful automotive tools like Apple Maps and Siri the last thing I want in a car is mediocre also-ran afterthought technology stripped off an iPad and forced on the driver just to have more Apple logo and revenue stream in cars in the future.

This comes off as a desperate statement made a few weeks after Apple announced they are scaling back their automotive program and R&D investment, i.e failed to deliver on that investment. It's a distraction to keep people oblivious to the fact that Apple's sales are tanking and their recent product offerings have been lackluster on innovation. I think investors and general consumers are starting to see through the ******** and losing faith in the brand. If Tim Cook continues to use vague hints about Apple's future roadmap and deflect from the real problems at the company then 2017 will be even worse for Apple's brand reputation then 2016 was.

 

[Joe The Dragon]

they will open their own dealership, patent the word "dealership" then sue everyone. after they make a car, they will sue all cars because they look like theirs, 4 weeks... hahaha

they don't want the dealership system they want the non dealership tesla system.

and they want to make it so that all work must be done at the apple shop at apple prices.
[doublepost=1477495092][/doublepost]new ui a car can = death.

http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2016/07/12/jeep-recall-gear-shift-yelchin-death.cnnmoney/
http://autoweek.com/article/recalls/was-anton-yelchins-death-caused-recalled-shifter
http://jalopnik.com/did-jeeps-recalled-gear-shifter-contribute-to-the-death-1782255715

 

[McScooby]

Too many Cooks in the kitchen I fear, to quote a phrase I guess that sums it best!

 

[campyguy]

Great insight!

I'm in the Midwest and this is true for us too! Our roads are ****, just to name one problem we are facing over here.

Citizens complain to the local government that the city streets are just pothole after pothole (they are), city reps say "we don't have any money," eventually they resurface the street in the cheapest way possible, but then we discover that, oh, one of the century+ old sewer lines below the street is leaking and that we've all been driving on a thin layer of asphalt over a sinkhole.

On the federally funded highways, I suspect that state officials are using construction to try and replace the loss of manufacturing, and so our three major highways are under non-stop construction. It makes my daily commute very unsafe and sometimes very challenging. It's usually not other passenger traffic/drivers I worry about, it's being rammed into a concrete guard wall by a semi that's too large to fit in one of the barely-sized lanes where they've made two lanes where it used to be one lane, passing through a construction zone. And this is all happening on I-75, which probably handles way more traffic than it should for the shape it's in.

I think eventually some cities and metro areas are going to have to collapse in on themselves to survive. Higher density mixed-use spaces, making the autonomous EV moot and of trivial importance.

And oh, I know what you mean about the trolley tracks... a GM subsidiary bought our trolley lines up and then shut them down over half a century ago.

FWIW, some relief is finally coming for road repair work - Congress *finally* passed a multi-year transportation-related bill, for the first time in 10 or 11 years. Some of those funds were handed over to the Fed-approved fiscal authority in each state (DOTs and some larger transit authorities), and those agencies are doing some work now (over the summer that just ended) and major planning sessions are going on now for the upcoming construction year and beyond. Pretty much everything that Congress passed over the previous decade was either pork or band-aid projects, and a lot of people I know lost their job as a result (Oregon DOT was forecasting some 3500 layoffs just in their agency AFAIK...).

Not to get off-track, next summer is going to be a bear for traveling - mark down my words!

Agreed with your assessments, I had to drive about 250 miles today. My Rain-X, Michelins, and 450HP just couldn't get me past some of the people who just should have stayed home. I can't write most of what I was thinking. I did stop off and buy a couple of thick dry-aged ribeye steaks and some oxtail for a stew, so that'll get my mind off of being grumpy.

Timmy, get to work on that Jetson's hovercar - I could have really used one today!

 

[bighype]

Tim's a Grade-A idiot. He's also the most boring person in tech. He has no style or taste either.

Just get rid of him already before Apple's dead!