Apple kills plan to make car

Hanno Labuschagne

Hanno Labuschagne

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Apple kills plan to make car

In abandoning plans for a self-driving car, Apple Inc. is giving up on billions in potential revenue and the dream of selling what one executive called “the ultimate mobile device.”

The hope is that other big bets — including generative AI and mixed-reality headsets — can make up the difference.

[Bloomberg]
 
Good. I don’t think Apple should be in the car business. Leave that to the rest rather.
 
I doubt anyone would have been able to afford it in any case...
 
Apple should, have released a TV set in the mid 2000s. They would have owned the living room with an elegant TV that sits inside the walled garden. Instead we have this janky-ass Google TV that does nothing but pop ads if you even look directly at it. If you want an Apple experience in the living room you have a locked down set top box that offers little over the competition whatever is buitl into your tv anyway.

Why they wanted to mess with something as far outside their wheelhouse as cars anyway is anyones guess.
 
SlinkyMike said:
Apple should, have released a TV set in the mid 2000s. They would have owned the living room with an elegant TV that sits inside the walled garden. Instead we have this janky-ass Google TV that does nothing but pop ads if you even look directly at it. If you want an Apple experience in the living room you have a locked down set top box that offers little over the competition whatever is buitl into your tv anyway.

Why they wanted to mess with something as far outside their wheelhouse as cars anyway is anyones guess.
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Que it's much faster than what's built into your TV. Plus it gets updates for longer as well.
 
I-Roads would've cost a lot to build. They surely would not have been compatible with normal roads.
 
Pax said:
I-Roads would've cost a lot to build. They surely would not have been compatible with normal roads.
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no, they would be normal roads just with slave labor building it
and sold to the municipality at 100 times the cost.
 
Pax said:
I-Roads would've cost a lot to build. They surely would not have been compatible with normal roads.
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not to mention the iTyres' replacement costs and iAir to inflate them while charging the battery with a lightning port that you can only find at the iCharger
 
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