2y ago

A major acquisition is the only way the Apple Car can launch this decade, top insider suggests

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I don’t think that this will ever happen. It’s just way beyond their scope. I can see them making an infotainment module that is licensed/sold to manufacturers so they can advertise it like CarPlay.
I doubt it…
Someone dying in an Apple car isn’t the sort of headline they would embrace.
It’s also why Apple doesn’t run their own MVNO—better for a carrier to take the fall for phone issues; and let Goldman Sachs handle the banking.
I don’t see Apple doing their own car unless they feel like big auto is holding them back… like how Intel’s lack of momentum prompted the semi-recent processor transition.
Right now, CarPlay is not doing outstanding—GM in particular is flicking a big middle finger—but it is certainly reaching more customers right now than if Apple did their own car.
- Because they’re getting into bed with Google going with Android Automotive to turn the infotainment system into a subscription service. They’re also dropping the free Android Auto support too.
  Realistically that’s along the lines of what Apple needs to do first if they’re serious about a car. Build a full infotainment system software suite and get OEMs on board with that. Your luxury makers going to EV like lucid, rivian, Mercedes, Audi, Fisker, BMW, etc… would all fit the Apple image
- Yeah, but at the end of the day, CarPlay is kind of like the Moto ROKR. Apple software on someone else crappy hardware.
  Auto manufacturers may know how to make a reliable power train, but most automakers kind of suck at infotainment and software. Hell, many just farm that shit out to companies like Harmon and say “here’s the budget and the size of the hole in the dash, go.”
A major aquisition is how apple launches a lot of stuff
Please buy Tesla… and fire Elon.
- @DavidGA @ZeroCool Tesla is terribly overpriced, and it’s quality issues can’t be solved easily. It would be easier to create a joint venture with Stellantis (for example), that has the potential to actually make a decent car, and create it with them, even reusing one of their current platforms, to reduce cost and start production soon.
Elron would be so upset if they bought Rivian.

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