[Gaffer]

I don’t want it if you have to log into iTunes to charge it. :0)

[SeekAndFind]

MORE HERE:

Apple is learning to make a self-driving car, says auto industry source

[Star Traveler]

Another speculative iCar article ... LOL ...

[minnesota_bound]

A waste of money.

[omni-scientist]

I hope it’s not an iSetta.

[PGR88]

Why buy Tesla for $75 billion?

Just wait until the next financial crisis / recession and they can pick it up in bankruptcy for pennies on the dollar.

[SamAdams76]

Apple cars aside, there are some pretty amazing technologies out there that are going to disrupt existing industries and create trillions of dollars in new wealth.

3-D printing is just one of those technologies that has yet to achieve critical mass but will soon.

Take a time machine back to 1976. Kodak invents the first digital camera (.01 megapixel) but shelves the product and refuses to develop it because they didn't want to cannibalize their existing film and camera cash cow.

As a result, Kodak goes from a $23b company to bankruptcy in a matter of just a few years during the 2000s. Almost zero people are purchasing film and traditional cameras.

There are Fortune 500 companies that will not be around 10 years from now because they wanted to cling to old business models.

[leopardseal]

An Apple self-driving car which works as well as the one Iphone I experienced sounds like a new way to die.

What's wrong with having a light, powerful car made largely with carbon fiber or graphene with one of the new IC engines and a five or six speed manual transmisison??

The OPOC engine

[9thLife]

The company recently announced it's building a $850 million solar plant to power its California operations.

Wonder how many centuries that will take to pay for itself.

Fortunately for Apple, I trust they plan to push into the electrical generation business.

[smokingfrog]

It will probably have at least 4 wheels.

I’m going to wait for the hovercraft model. (iCar 2H)

[sten]

many companies have worked on Titan... only to shutdown development and move developers to other projects once earnings and user subs drop to unacceptable levels

[Swordmaker]

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[DaxtonBrown]

Buying Tesla would be a good way for Apple to bonfire that excess cash.

[tubebender]

I wonder if they know that Toyota makes a pickup called the Titan...

[catnipman]

Let me guess. When the battery finally gives out of your old Apple Car, it’s cheaper to throw out your old Apple Car and simply buy the next gen Apple Car instead.

[ReignOfError]

Why on Earth would Apple buy Tesla outright? Elon Musk already placed the patents in the public domain. All I can see that they’d get from the purchase is the dealer network and charging stations, and I’d think they could build that out or sign a deal with Tesla for a lot less than $75B.