Posted on 02/14/2015 4:07:50 AM PST by shove_it
And then track every aspect of its use once you have sufficient market penetration.
Maybe so, but you don’t have and R&D team that “could eventually swell to some 1,000 employees,....researching robotics, metals and materials consistent with automobile manufacturing”, in order to design a dashboard iPod holder.
Will it cost 20% more than any other comparable machine simply for the privilege of sporting an Apple logo?
Will you have to buy the latest model every year in order to keep up with the Jones?
Well said. I think it would be extremely exciting if Apple got into cars. Just think of all the good things that could come about if Apple and Tesla got into a competitive tussle.
Yeah, I know what you mean ... but I just don’t believe it yet. It just seems too far afield of what Apple has done in the past. But maybe Apple is way more capable and innovative than I think.
Maybe. However, you won’t be forced to buy it.
No hybrid or electric car is profitable. The cost of entry into the car business is very high, with small profit margins. This would not be the best use of Apple’s funds. But creating a total car computer system seems to be logical. Car companies do not do software well and I hope Apple is smart enought to not try and build a car.
... LOL ... my Ford Taurus won’t haul too many sheets either ... :-) ...
I don’t buy proprietary electricity right now to charge my iPhone and iPad. In fact, it’s my Ford Taurus that is charging my iPad, as I type this to you ... :-) ...
That's how I pictured it -- and of course I had to, what with the language hurdles and all.
So does that mean a 9$/day fuel cost isn't unreasonably low for a modern cab?
Not supposed FReep and drive!
Toyota has targeted the “black car” business with their Avalon “Livery Edition” hybrid sedan, with a variety of extended factory warranties on up past 100,000 miles. EPA city for the Avalon hybrid, which is a full-size car, is 40 mpg. Compare that to practically any non-hybrid vehicle in stop-and-go city traffic all day long. Most would be in the teens and most full size would be in the low teens. So, triple the mileage sounds plausible. $9.00 a day vs. $30.00 a day sounds a little extreme on that basis. He was driving something that got really horrible gas mileage before, single digits.
Neither will my Maxima so I have a truck..........
Not true. The Toyota Prius, although it took 10 years to happen, is now profitable and making up 10% of Toyota's U.S. sales.
These technologies are a long-term investment for automakers. Here is a good article on the subject:
Thanks, I stand corrected. After 17 years and 1 billion dollars Toyota shows a profit on the hybrid. Question, is the car paying back the 1 billion dollar investment or just covering only current production costs.
And I still say a car would be a bad investment for Apple.
Yes, I thought “Titan” was already taken.
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Why should they pay income tax on money that has already been taxed WHERE IT WAS EARNED simply because the move it back here? The United States is one of only TWO countries in the world that taxes already taxed income. The other is a podunk country in Central Africa. ALL of the rest recognize that the taxing authorities of the countries where the money was earned are legitimately the ones to have the income taxes and it is therefore fully taxed! Are you a Democrat to believe that the money rightfully belongs to the government until the government lets you keep a portion?
Until Apple begins to support American workers.
Apple makes its MacPro computer in Austin, Texas, and the Apple iMacs are assembled in Elk Grove, CA. Apple is directly responsible for creating over 1 million jobs in the USA. That is pretty doing good at supporting American Workers.
I strongly favor making dividends an expense for corporate tax purposes. Dividends are taxable to the stockholder, and that should be enough, thank you very much. Make that change to the law, and I would expect Apples foreign money to flow back here, payed out in dividends. Instead of sitting overseas and - lets face it - being invested overseas.Pay it out here, to American stockholders, and they will - being investors after all - invest much of it in America, a little overseas, no doubt (freedom, after all . . .), and spend the rest mostly on their children. And pension funds will pay out to pensioners, who will pay their heating bills and their electric bills.
Interest paid on corporate bonds, BTW, are already treated as an expense for corporate tax purposes, and rightly so. Dividends should be the same - taxable only to the individual receiving the money.
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