Excellent post.
Apple could easily buy a car company - the reason the market cap of many car companies is relatively low is because it’s a high cap investment/low profit business.
Now why they would want to do this is another question.
Apple could easily buy a car company - the reason the market cap of many car companies is relatively low is because it’s a high cap investment/low profit business.Automobiles, on the other hand, have a CENTURY of harsh, mechanical lessons that are not part of Apple's core business experience, and it is difficult to simply "purchase" that. (Although, if any company had the ready cash to "purchase" that kind of institutional knowledge wholesale, it would currently be Apple). - Rebel_Ace
Now why they would want to do this is another question.
Indeed. Seems like you’d have to be convinced that your digital competency could be made applicable - make that transformationally applicable - to problems which are so taken for granted in general that when you unveiled your prototype everyone else would be saying, “Now why couldn’t I have developed that!” IMO that would have to be a design which modern controls make practical but which are outside the paradigm of vehicles as we know them.IOW, it would have to be an electrically powered, enclosed cabin, fly-by-wire “motorcycle.” With front and rear drive and steering. And, possibly, inline 1x4 seating. And retractable outrigger wheels for very low speed stability and for parking.