JanNL

ireland said:

Since the day I've owned my iPhone 6 I found it too big.

volcan said:

This headline is ass backward.

Should be: In latest Time cover story Tim Cook says he's 'offended' by government smears 

When I first read it I thought it meant that Time interviewed the government who made smears against Tim when in fact it was Tim who was interviewed by Time Magazine.


http://time.com/4261796/tim-cook-transcript/

tjwolf said:

badmonk said:

Who said Apple would do it alone at the end of the day?  So an electric car is not much different than Apple's other product lines...computer, battery technology are the things that challenge conventional car manufacturers and these things (plus indistrial design) are Apple strong points.

An electric engine, chassis, wheels, brakes and steering seem like the issues they may need outside help with.  But they can buy these intellectual sets on the market.

Manufacturing will be a non-issue as this will be contracted out as usual.

Without labor costs, a bloated executive class and legacy retirement funds to worry about, Apple will do fine.

Of course there's labor cost - it's just part of the manufacturing outsourcing you speak of.  But who would they outsource assembly to?  It's not like there are generic "car assembly" plants around - the ones that exist belong to existing car manufacturers who would hardly agree to manufacture a competitor's car!

I doubt Apple will ever build a car - the margins aren't anywhere near what it currently gets.  I think they'll simply expand CarPlay to include options such as "driverless car".