Apple making electric car
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Apple Gears Up to Challenge Tesla in Electric Cars
- organicgrid0
Ponderous... Apple is trying to keep up with Google, sound like desperation me.
- huh? apple's billions would suggest they aren't trying to keep up with anyone.inteliboy
- There's nothng at all desperate about applemonospaced
- Fuck mono...you are SUCH a fanboy.marychain
- That comment is desperatei_was
- intelliboy said it first. Relaxmonospaced
- they have to explore new markets, phones aren't going to be what they are now in 5 yearsformed
- I just went through Best Buy, laptops looked great, lightyears ahead of 2 years ago...competition is going to drive prices/margins waaay downformed
- pinkfloyd0
They were offering Tesla employees 250k sign on bonuses along with a 60% pay increase to hop over.
- Peter0
You're driving it wrong.
...but after a legal settlement you're eligible to receive a free bumper.
- pinkfloyd0
There needs to be a steve jobs turning in his grave gif
- SoulFly0
You have it all wrong.
Don't you see it? Apple needs a car to use their Beats iTunes/ app store fully integrated console dashboard sound system that they are making.
- What besides most of the major automakers who have already signed on?monospaced
- Also yeah.monospaced
- formed0
Apple needs to keep doing things, they won't make profits like they are now off of future phones (and I'd think when wearables become universal, is when they take the place of teh phone). Like tablets, phones will become less and less important, less and less sales (they are all so good).
MS is doing a good job at moving in this direction (mostly out of desperation, but still a good move).
If you were Apple and had billions burning a hole in your pocket, wouldn't you follow Google's lead? They have a superb track record of taking someone else's idea and making it better.
Driverless cars will be the future, seems inevitable to me. Probably some shared model for most people. I'd love that world.
- pango0
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- ETM0
“A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
-Steve JobsUpdated:
“A lot of times, people don’t know what they want to go until you drive them there.”
"Apple Car, take me to pub A"
"Taking you to Pub B"
"I said Pub A"
"You'll enjoy Pub B better. It has a nicer atmosphere and a better menu."
- mekk0
Merc with U2 sampler.
- set0
Another sure fire way of showing everyone around you how much of a massive cunt you are before even opening your mouth
- i_was0
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- GeorgesII0
knowing apple's M.O., they will get all their tech from samsung,
repackage it and pretend they came out with the idea first
- yeah because samsung are full of great ideas.inteliboy
- actually they are,
without samsung's chip, there would be no iToyGeorgesII - Samsung?!? Hahahaha nopango
- Dont forget the great leaps apple have created in desktop CPU performance.
...bought from intel.Hombre_Lobo - Saumsung, hahaha yes.
http://en.wikipedia.…ETM - More yes
http://en.wikipedia.…ETM - it's fair to say that without Apple samsung wouldn't have even been created thoughMiguex
- omahadesigns0
iCar.
- inteliboy0
"We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in." Palm CEO, Ed Colligan
Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer
"Apple’s iPhone is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard which makes it not a very good email machine... So, I, I kinda look at that and I say, well, I like our strategy. I like it a lot."Microsoft Senior Marketing Director, Richard Sprague
"I can’t believe the hype being given to iPhone... I just have to wonder who will want one of these things (other than the religious faithful)... So please mark this post and come back in two years to see the results of my prediction: I predict they will not sell anywhere near the 10M Jobs predicts for 2008."Bloomberg, Matthew Lynn
"The iPhone is nothing more than a luxury bauble that will appeal to a few gadget freaks. In terms of its impact on the industry, the iPhone is less relevant... Apple is unlikely to make much of an impact on this market... Apple will sell a few to its fans, but the iPhone won’t make a long-term mark on the industry."CNET, Michael Kanellos
"Apple is slated to come out with a new phone... And it will largely fail.... Sales for the phone will skyrocket initially. However, things will calm down, and the Apple phone will take its place on the shelves with the random video cameras, cell phones, wireless routers and other would-be hits... When the iPod emerged in late 2001, it solved some major problems with MP3 players. Unfortunately for Apple, problems like that don’t exist in the handset business. Cell phones aren’t clunky, inadequate devices. Instead, they are pretty good. Really good."
- monospaced0
Good. The more companies making electric vehicles the better.
- True datset
- I dont see big corporations making anything as choices. more like monopoly owned by few with illusion of choiceyurimon
- Wat? This isn't an invention. It's an electric car. It's a good thing. Chill out its just a product.monospaced
- Not great if we can;t recycle battery cells and electricity for them comes from burning coal.ETM
- No one wants to address that electricity for cars still comes from fossil fuels.ETM
- < true. Electric car was invented in 1920's they chose gas to milk u.yurimon
- Yes thank you Yurimon. None of us knew that. Thank you for informing us.set
- mekk0
@intelliboy; the first iPhones were just expensive feature-less luxury goods, it changed when they announced it for $199 (on credit, lol) and introduced the app store. No one saw apps coming that big. I think the App store is the #1 point why they sold so good. When Android kept up trough apps the quickly overran iOs in market share.
Microsoft managers didn't see that a company can change such a big product in such little time, they're just not used to it because they target business clients.
- Yup, the app store was the real genius, the rest was evolution of techformed
- Nobody would argue with that. Same with the store for iPod. Same with HealthKit for watchmonospaced
- formed0
test (cause it isn't letting me post where I want)
- dammit, I can't post in the shipping container threadformed
- It's probably a content error.monospaced
- yeah, they blocked an ArchDaily link....which makes 0 senseformed
