Posted on 05/14/2015 8:15:29 PM PDT by ckilmer
For several months now, rumours of increasing credibility have circulated that Apple is secretly working on an electric car project.
This week, the Cupertino company reportedly will settle a lawsuit brought against it by A123 Systems â a large-battery company that alleges Apple deliberately poached its employees to develop its own car battery technology.
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Be nice if they developed an OS that didn’t crash the music industry (production side) with every new upgrade.
It’ll probably be even more overpriced than all of their products usually are.
Backwards compatibility seems a thing of the past , doesnt it!
It can hold a charge for 2 hours (then needs to recharge for 12 hours).
It automatically connects to the iCloud to store all it's operating parameters in real-time (your iPhone needs to be within 10 feet of the battery for it to work at all).
Customers are already camping out in front of Apple stores in some cities, waiting for the announcement that the batteries are available.
Ask any studio running Pro Tools what happens with EVERY apple upgrade. There are places still running 5 year old OS because the hardware companies can’t keep up with stable drivers for the crap Apple comes out with on crucial tools.
kinda did that way back at the get go. xerox parc.
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Great, a car with a battery that can’t be replaced. You just have to get a new car every two years.
What you're implying, simply didn't happen. This Xerox canard gets real old. Xerox's Management was in complete agreement with the PARC visit by Steve Jobs and his engineers. Xerox got 100,000 Shares of Pre-IPO Apple common stock (later sold for over $16 million after the iPO) in exchange for those two visits in which the Apple people were not allowed to take any notes, take no code, or any photographs, but were allowed to ask questions and learn what they could from the PARC people. Apple developed their GUI and system entirely independently. . . and licensed the Mouse concept from Douglas Engelbart at Stanford University's Stanford Research Institute but who also pioneered most of the GUI concepts, but Apple developed their own mouse.
Tesla is a brave and visionary company. But Apple is something very different.
The difference between Apple and every other company in the world is that Apple has $178 billion in cash available for its ventures—as of 2014. http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/28/investing/apple-cash-178-billion/
Their brand appeal is so powerful that they can make a watch that sells out on preorder while being extremely profitable.
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Apple Watch Sales Figures: 3 Million Devices Pre-Ordered, $2 Billion In Revenue
By Zayed Rehman | April 20th, 2015
http://www.redmondpie.com/apple-watch-sales-figures-3-million-devices-preordered-2-billion-in-revenue/
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Apple is making a profit of 264.30 USD on each watch. Their profit on preorder is already 792,900,000
http://www.tech-to-date.com/apple-watch-is-the-highly-profitable-product-for-apple/
Now consider what Apple will do to the car market when they enter.
Profound change is coming to the energy world. With apple now the question is when that change is coming.
Also a myth.
With technology expanding at an almost ex potential rate; backward compatibility is a difficult thing.
They’ll keep it up as long as is feasible, but eventually, they have to let go of the old. That screwed MS, kept them in the past instead of looking forward.
I can’t believe all the nay sayers here. This is proof, obviously they are finally building the flying car.
LOL, "entirely"?! You just explained how they went and studied PARC!
Apple often invents the machinery to MAKE the devices they design, but they do not want to manufacture those devices, manage the assembly lines, etc. There are companies whose field of expertise is exactly that. Apple knows this and lets them do what they do best.
Therefore, Apple may employ an engineer who has expertise in Battery design who can get the most density into the smallest package possible. . . but I sincerely doubt it will be so that Apple can start a line of Apple branded car batteries. I would be more expecting that the batteries designed by this engineer might be contracted to A123 or other companies for them to make for Apple to Apple's design and specifications. That would mean the yellow dog, non-compete clause would not be binding on the engineer. . . and those clauses are hard to enforce anyway.
I do not put much credence in rumors where Apple is concerned anymore. Too many of them have turned into smoke and nothing. It may be that Apple is going to make a car, or it may be something entirely different with the car a red herring . . .
It is over $200 billion now and growing.
And Apple and Xerox's solutions to GUI's bear very little similarity to each other. It is only people who are not familiar with both who seem to think they are alike. They aren't.
What you see is parallel development from similar roots from Doug Engelbart's work at SRI. . . and the Apple employees who came from PARC who made a conscious effort not to duplicate anything from Xerox in Apple's GUI. Yes, they both have windows, but they are implemented quit differently with completely different abilities. Active Icons, Apple. Drag and Drop, Apple, Drop down Menus, Apple. Nested Contextual Menus, Apple. Trashcan Metaphor, Apple. Overlapping windows, Apple.
As i said, parallel development.
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