Artist's (poor) rendering of an Apple garage.
Posted on 03/13/2015 1:34:33 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Shrouded in secrecy and speculation, Apple's mysterious "Titan" electric car project is believed to be in development at a top-secret facility hidden in plain sight, discovered by AppleInsider just minutes away from the company's California headquarters.
Whether or not the mythical "Apple Car" ever becomes a real product, the company is tinkering away on a top-secret automotive project. Sources familiar with the development of "Titan" say it's well beyond the concept stage, with serious work underway at a site located off of Apple's Cupertino campus.
Specifically, two people with knowledge of the project say Apple has been working on it and receiving shipments related to its development at a building just minutes from 1 Infinite Loop, in the town of Sunnyvale.
It is unclear if this secondary campus is ground zero for "Titan." But AppleInsider can confirm that Apple does indeed have a large presence at the location, and that numerous automotive-related renovations, including an "auto work area" and a "repair garage," have been constructed on the premises.
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You know me. I’m a fan of the company. But I don’t get this. Buy TSLA. Makes a lot more sense particularly the battery gigafactory.
My sister used to own one of those Toyotas (the red car on the right). She bought one brand new, I think in 1969. Real funny looking car. She should have kept it, more valuable now than the $2000 or so she spent then. Looks like it’s displayed at a Japanese car show in Southern California, vintage Japanese cars are the rage now.
Is that you, Tim Cook? Conveniently overlooking the $700+ iPhone, $2000+ MacBook and the $395-$10,000 watch that runs only 18 hours before having to be recharged?
Oh, WOW!, the Samsung ANDROID phones are more expensive than the Apple iPhones. Who woulda thought?
Oh, WOW, again. The Apple pricing is either competitive or less expensive, when compared to upper tier competition. . . Yet it is the Apple products that are consistently given the nod as the best products in their class. NOT Dell. I was going to do a comparison to Sony Vaio as well, but Sony has announced they've discontinued their computer products.
The fine print: Apple and Dell pricing sampled as of March 14, 2015 from store.Apple.com and Dell.com. Pricing of Dell products added software to Dell Products to approximate software that comes included with Apple Products as best fit possible from Dell options available.
Yes, you can find Android phones, Windows laptops, and wearable devices cheaper than Apple products. . . but you are talking about cheap, commodity, bottom-of-the-barrel products, a market in which Apple simply does not compete, has never competed, and has no intention of competing. They do not want the customers who buy on price only, and don't understand value.
Your watch pricing is also off. The price of the watch starts not at $395, but at $349. . . and the high end goes to $17,000. . . and that 18 hours is with constant usage. The Apple Watch goes to sleep if you are not actively using it or repeatedly checking it every few minutes. . . and will last all day. Most people will have no problem putting it on a MagSafe connector to charge for under an hour daily. . . and before you chime in with another canard, yes, the batteries are replaceable when they wear out.
Why do you delusional Apple haters always have to exaggerate?
Some people sleep for more than six hours a day.
I'm very familiar with Apple products. Part of my duties in my last job were to purchase and set up MacBook Pros for our new employees. I've used Apples for a long time. I got an Apple IIe back in '81 and I used a MacBook Pro for several years at my last company. The MacBook cost $2500, and was a good machine, but had major drawbacks mainly because it was often incompatible with connecting to most businesses who use PCs. At the time, we were forced to use Open Office an opensource product, but inferior to even MS Word.
So take your snob crap and your canned Apple sales crap and shove them. Apple products are overpriced.
Considering Apple is the most valuable company in the world by net worth, from a business perspective it seems they have priced their products juuuuust right.
I say this as I type from my PC. I'm a computer geek though. If I were more of a computer geek I might be typing from a Linux machine. If I were less of one, I might be typing from a Mac. It seems Apple knows a thing or two about the consumer market.
The only "snob" and computer ignoramus I see here is you. I've operated a cross platform business and computer consulting business for over thirty-five years, and if you can't get a UNIX based MacBook Pro to connect to "most businesses using PCs," you're a piss poor IT guy. I run SEVEN operating systems on my Mac. . . UNIX™, OS X.10 Yosemite, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and two versions of Linux, all but the first two in sandboxes in Virtual Machines. I have run all seven simultaneously. . . on a network connected to Windows PCs, Macs, and Linux boxes. So much for your claims of “connection” issues.
I just provided you with accurate authoritative pricing of Apple products as of today compared to other top-of-the-line Windows PC products from a major seller, Dell, which you can go and replicate on the web today. Those prices were either HIGHER PRICED for the DELL than the Apple products OR WERE COMPETITIVE, within $40 of each other with better specifications on the Apple product, which proves your claims of being over priced are so much BULL PUCKY!
And for your idiotic claims about the users being driven by “Snob appeal” or ignorance", I general point such idiots like you who make those claims to these photos of the scientists and engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labroratory who planned and executed the Mars Curiosity Rover Mission and Landing so they, and you, can see their choice of personal notebook computers:
There are only two non-Apple notebooks in those photographs, and the owners' of the Mac notebooks are neither driven by “Snob Appeal” nor could you possibly say they are incapable of learning the PC’s Operating System. They merely want a reliable system that works with them, rather than one they have to "work on” before they can get any "work done"!
So much for your idiot and insulting claims of “Snob Factor” and “Those who can’t grasp the operation of a regular PC operating system”.
Everytime I see someone talking about how they know Apple because they bought an Apple II from the last century, they are going to be exaggerating their expertise with Macs before they finish the post.
Why would a Macbook Pro be incompatible with any network?
jn what wwy is OpenOffice inferior? Because I use OpenOffice on my laptop I purchased last month and love that retro feel.
As an MS Dev & Reseller I run Office 2003 on all the other computers and have no intention of upgrading.
Can’t stand the look and menus of current office.
That said, you can run current Office on Apple, without emulation and for a measly $10 you can install OS/Office on 5 machines anx 5 devices.
Bonus: Microsoft was offering 1 terabyte per macbine license but, that is currently unlimited.
I do run the Mac Air for 2 other people and it’s a breeze and really a better machine than their competitors.
I cant recall any BSOD’s with Apple and they don’t bleed memory like anything else meant to run Windoze.
I myself would buy an Apple but, these days it’s a preference thing and I am faster with MS OS than Apple but, comfortable in Apple OS.
There is no such thing as an 11k watch, there are only idiots that would pay 11k for a 12 dollar watch.
In the case of the Apple Watch there is one watch with many prices based on type case and band are chose, but you get exactly the same watch in any of the models.
By the way Rolex and other high end watches sell for much more that 11k and none of them tell time better than any other $2.00 watch.
They do, however, last a heck of a lot longer than any $2.00 watch.
“In the case of the Apple Watch there is one watch with many prices based on type case and band are chose, but you get exactly the same watch in any of the models.”
That may not be true. There is speculation than the high-end Apple Watches have different internals, workers have noticed differences, specifically an additional interface on the side of the mechanism. Here is one article speculating that Apple intentionally made them upgradeable so internals can be upgraded or swapped out of expensive cases.
Had difficulty connecting to MS machines. The MacBook OS, at least at the time, ran on a version of linux.
Weird...
Since we were an IT company, we developed workaraounds, but workarounds never seem to be quite as good.
Again you prove your total ignorance of the platform, Sons. OS X is UNIX™, not a version of Linux, a clean room work around copy of UNIX. In fact, OS X is a certified TRADEMARKED version of UNIX™, one of only four in the world and actually is the best selling of the four.
Swordswallower - You are an ass and a dem troll, so go back to hell with your butt boy Hussein.
Wow Sons... you have nothing to counter with so you resort to a ridiculous ad hominem attack? Grow up.
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