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  • Apple working on high-voltage battery power converters intended for sports cars

    JWSC said:
    qwwera said:
    What if...Ford’s decision to exit the car market and focus on trucks and commercial vehicles is it’s way of opening production to building Apple’s cars? Apple using Ford’s expertise, factories, dealer networks sounds like a plan.  Of all the American car companies I think Ford is the best and only one i trust. I think if Apple does indeed build a car it would probably be with Ford.
    Never!
    Bloomberg has an article out about a reverse engineering car firm Munro and Associates, a firm of manufacturing experts contracted by OEMs and suppliers to tear down cars and car parts to the very last nut and bolt. They concluded that Tesla is way ahead of everyone else except....manufacturing. They say that if the model 3 was built by a true car company it would blow away the competition. It’s lack of expertise building cars is Tesla’s biggerst problem. 
    lolliverh2p
  • Apple working on high-voltage battery power converters intended for sports cars

    What if...Ford’s decision to exit the car market and focus on trucks and commercial vehicles is it’s way of opening production to building Apple’s cars? Apple using Ford’s expertise, factories, dealer networks sounds like a plan.  Of all the American car companies I think Ford is the best and only one i trust. I think if Apple does indeed build a car it would probably be with Ford.
    lolliver
  • ARM processor for Macs coming in 2020 or 2021, Apple car in 2023 says Ming-Chi Kuo

    Arm chips of course. Absolutely happen.

    Car? I don’t think so. There is something so cool in a company that can sell high margin items in tiny little boxes that can be shipped via ups and fed ex and returned the same way vs something that has so many liabilities, needs tires, upholstery, brakes and servicing in garages and all the headaches that go with that. Yeah no way. This is the Apple TV all over again.

    Let’s remember Ford is stopping car production to focus mostly on trucks and commercial vehicles. Tesla is not making any money really. A car factory? Where? China? The US?

    It just sounds like a terrible idea all the way around.
    gatorguy
  • Police contracted to guard Apple Stores in Sacramento following theft spree

    mpantone said:
    The guards are stationed at that Sacramento McDonald's not to prevent theft but presumably to discourage drug deals.

    A San Francisco McDonald's recently closed because of ongoing drug activity.

    McDonald's is pretty much the lowest of the low, at least here in the USA. Not the case in other countries. McDonald's in Japan is a high-quality fast food operation. Their food is much better than the US stores.
    Not everywhere in the USA. We do have some pretty nice McDonald's here in California with the touch screen ordering like they do in Japan and other countries. The one I went to in Chicago recently was very nice. Just as nice as the ones in Europe and Asia. I think McDonald's is hit or miss in any country. The one I ate at in Seoul was terrible. I stopped in Dortmund driving to Denmark over the summer and that one was pretty good.
    Yeah all the McDonalds Ive been to here in California have been relatively nice clean places to stop. I’m not saying the food is healthy but the places are clean. The Sacramento one was the first McDonalds i’ve been to where it was just plain gross.
    SpamSandwich
  • Police contracted to guard Apple Stores in Sacramento following theft spree

    I went to work in Sacramento this summer for a couple of months. And the memory of that time that I tell everyone is that it was the first time in my life that I went to a McDonalds with two guards standing out front. I was new to the city so I just wanted something familiar near by where I wouldn’t need to drive. Scariest McDonalds ever.
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