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[LordOfChaos]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ar-shifts-team-to-generative-ai?sref=9hGJlFio

Wow. So AVP by their own thinking and sales estimates is a niche device and will be for years. With the Car out, what is Apple's next growth driver? AI for iPhones I guess, but the smartphone market has settled into a steady plateau

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

Cunts should have hired me.

 

[daffyduck]

 

[SlimySnake]

With everyone switching to making sex robots, the rate of advancement is going to be insane.

I suspect in ten years we would have people protesting about the treatment of sex robots. In 20 years, those sex robots will be protesting themselves. In 30 years, the regenerative AI will make Terminator.

 

[LordOfChaos]

Cunts should have hired me.

I could have put a calculator on the iPad with my high school Java project for a low low software engineer salary of 250K and 150K 1 year retention bonus

 

[Hudo]

Sad. I would've made a detour to the Apple dealership just to laugh at how their car requires an Apple-ID just to turn it on.

 

[Magic Carpet]

GM no longer supports Carplay, I no longer look at GM for cars.
Don't know what my next vehicle will be, Maybe an electric Ford Truck.

 

[SidViscous]

you start driving then U2 starts playing without asking, you park the car then it tells all your passengers you are on your period. Maybe it’s for the best

 

[newtypepilot]

they realized making people spend 10 grand for a adapter to charge it was going to be a tough sell.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

But what about the children?

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

I could have put a calculator on the iPad with my high school Java project for a low low software engineer salary of 250K and 150K 1 year retention bonus

Point taken.

 

[LordOfChaos]

So they wanted to sell it for $100,000 USD and worried they couldn't make money on it

 

[Kilau]

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[ADiTAR]

I think most manufacturers know that electric cars are not making sense financially. The world hasn't moved the needle on that to make it profitable, the infrastructure for it is still in baby steps.

Apple should focus on innovation.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

I need everyone to buy EV's so my lithium stocks see a recovery. Thank you.

 

[JayK47]

Glad to see it. I really hate the forced push for electric cars. I do enjoy watching everybody scramble to change back to gas though.

 

[jason10mm]

With everyone switching to making sex robots, the rate of advancement is going to be insane.

I suspect in ten years we would have people protesting about the treatment of sex robots. In 20 years, those sex robots will be protesting themselves. In 30 years, the regenerative AI will make Terminator.

I'm failing to see a problem?

 

[sankt-Antonio]

Margins are super low (compared to regular Apple products), you have to keep service parts for decades, regulation, etc.

Never made sense in my eyes for Them to do it. Tesla was a lucky combo of hype thats not achivable by big corpos and they dont have a country pushing for market entry like China does.

 

[Spyxos]

What actually happened to the Apple TV? Also canceled?

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

BYD from China looks set to take the EV market by storm. They already are in China and soon the rest of the world.

 

[Putonahappyface]

But what about the children?

 

[Putonahappyface]

What actually happened to the Apple TV? Also canceled?

Three months trial at the moment.

 

[Chittagong]

German carmakers using CarPlay are now our only hope for getting well built electric cars with decent software

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

It's quite demonic almost when you think about it. Let alone those that use nvm

 

[sono]

Ok..Nvm

With everyone switching to making sex robots

Do you have details

 

[cormack12]

With everyone switching to making sex robots, the rate of advancement is going to be insane.

I suspect in ten years we would have people protesting about the treatment of sex robots. In 20 years, those sex robots will be protesting themselves. In 30 years, the regenerative AI will make Terminator.

We will see how much diversity sells when sex robots are mainstream. Can't wait to see the visage of elephant man with a sickly paunch on offer.

 

[Billbofet]

Wait, Apple was going to invent electric vehicles?!?!?!
Bummer. Imagine how cool that would be, cars running on electricity!!!

 

[Neon Xenon]

This is the very first I've heard of this electric car project from Apple, but I'm not surprised in the least that a massive tech company had an extremely expensive project that they eventually dropped.

You know the Google Graveyard? Wonder how big the Apple Graveyard is.

 

[Spyxos]

Three months trial at the moment.

No, I mean there were rumors that Apple was developing its own TV. Not the Apple Tv+ streaming service.

 

[winjer]

I guess they ran into problems installing windows.

 

[Trogdor1123]

I guess they ran into problems installing windows.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

$10,000 Apple home robot incoming. It'll follow you around the house and validate your purchase of other Apple products by acting excited.

 

[mitch1971]

$10,000 Apple home robot incoming. It'll follow you around the house and validate your purchase of other Apple products by acting excited.

It's ability to stand, sold seperately.

 

[Quasicat]

GM no longer supports Carplay, I no longer look at GM for cars.
Don't know what my next vehicle will be, Maybe an electric Ford Truck.

Absolutely. I went from an Equinox to a Tucson for that very reason. It’s also a big reason why I didn’t even look at Tesla.

 

[Days like these...]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ar-shifts-team-to-generative-ai?sref=9hGJlFio

Wow. So AVP by their own thinking and sales estimates is a niche device and will be for years. With the Car out, what is Apple's next growth driver? AI for iPhones I guess, but the smartphone market has settled into a steady plateau

Foldables but not sure it would be a growth driver so much as cannibalizing iPhone and iPad sales.

 

[jason10mm]

Foldables but not sure it would be a growth driver so much as cannibalizing iPhone and iPad sales.

There is no more room for phone sales, literally everyone on earth has one. All they can do now is drive planned obsolescence and more subscription fee locked features.

 

[AJUMP23]

cars are hard.

 

[ReBurn]

I bet it would have integrated well with my MacBook

 

[Mohonky]

$10,000 Apple home robot incoming. It'll follow you around the house and validate your purchase of other Apple products by acting excited.

iJustine already exists

 

[Dancer_BV]

But my 6K Retina digital dashboard display...

 

[Cyberpunkd]

There is no more room for phone sales, literally everyone on earth has one. All they can do now is drive planned obsolescence and more subscription fee locked features.

Also use foldable as key reason to hike the price - “technology is hard”.

 

[Represent.]

With everyone switching to making sex robots, the rate of advancement is going to be insane.

I suspect in ten years we would have people protesting about the treatment of sex robots. In 20 years, those sex robots will be protesting themselves. In 30 years, the regenerative AI will make Terminator.

Crazy we’ll probably only be on GTA 8 by then

 

[xrnzaaas]

Too bad, I bet they would put some premium car brands to shame when it comes to the creativity of naming and pricing options that should be standard on the car.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I don't understand how bad your project planning must be for you to take 10 years to realize the idea is bad.

 

[sankt-Antonio]

I don't understand how bad your project planning must be for you to take 10 years to realize the idea is bad.

You have to get in the trenches and spend money to know how, when and at what cost autonomous driving is possible.
No one is gonna tell you. Because no one outside of companies doing it know the facts. Musk is full of shit.

Turns out it’s quite far out. As an Apple car that’s not fully autonomous is a no go, the project had to die.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Turns out it’s quite far out. As an Apple car that’s not fully autonomous is a no go, the project had to die.

Didn't we know that since a few years ago when Uber was constantly pushing back their strategy to turn all their vehicles into autonomous ones?

 

[sankt-Antonio]

Didn't we know that since a few years ago when Uber was constantly pushing back their strategy to turn all their vehicles into autonomous ones?

Uber's business is delivering pizzas and being a fancy taxi app, not cutting edge of autonomous driving, no matter what they told their shareholders.
A guy (Geohotz, famous PS3 hacker has a startup) with a phone and a connection to a cars internal electronics can make it drive on its own, the problem is how to deal with unforeseen circumstances on the road. Sounds trivial, but its the reason this is not happening atm.

 

[SJRB]

Like Elon said a decade ago: making a concept car is easy. The hard part is high quality cost efficient production lines.

Kudos to them for trying, though. And respect for throwing in the towel even after spending billions on R&D.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

We'll probably see autonomous cars start to hit the road by 2030. The bigger issue - I think - is that producing and maintaining them is a very expensive business that requires monumental investment. Even if someone else handles the charging grid, you still have to build a nation-wide chain of auto shops in every country which you intend to launch, and train mechanics and create supply chains for spare parts. Not to mention the huge cost of production facilities.

For all the shit that Tesla gets, this is a very difficult thing to achieve and it's not at all clear that it can be done with Apple's usual profit margins. That's the biggest issue here, and I'm surprised Apple was ever confident enough to believe otherwise.

When you add to it the legal and legislative hurdles of getting government approval for your autonomous vehicle in every country which you intend to launch, it seems quite daunting for a non-automotive company.

This would have been orders of magnitude more expensive than launching the iphone, no matter how you look at it.