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  • Game emulator Delta arrives on App Store after controversies

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    Downloading all of these before they get pulled . . .
    williamlondongrandact73watto_cobra

  • Apple calls 128GB 'lots of storage' in new iPhone 15 ad

    sbdudesbdude
    And yet Apple still sells two generations of iPad starting with 64 GB.
    williamlondon

  • Apple sat at a crossroads of indecision that led to Project Titan's slow death

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    Xed said:
    rob53 said:
    Apple was correct in dumping Project Titan. They don't have any expertise in building any type of car. They would need land and millions of dollars worth of manufacturing equipment. If they wanted to buy Rivian for a fire sale price to get manufacturing facilities and some expertise, I might go for it but they'd need to do a lot of work on fixing Rivian's vehicles plus come up with a respectable sedan. There is room for an American EV manufacturer, Tesla can't build all the EVs without building several more manufacturing facilities. 
    What expertise did any car company have before they existed? You mention Apple buying Rivian and Tesla so why doesn't their lack of expertise and experience before they made a single automobile carry over to your argument that if you hadn't done something before that you should never try to do it?

    Land and millions of dollars available, you say? How could they ever manage that. LOL
    Both Tesla and Rivian purchased factories previously established by automakers. I forget, which manufacturing plant did Apple buy in the intervening ten years they've been hacking away at a car?
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondondewme

  • Apple sat at a crossroads of indecision that led to Project Titan's slow death

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    StrangeDays said:
    rob53 said:
    Apple was correct in dumping Project Titan. They don't have any expertise in building any type of car. They would need land and millions of dollars worth of manufacturing equipment. If they wanted to buy Rivian for a fire sale price to get manufacturing facilities and some expertise, I might go for it but they'd need to do a lot of work on fixing Rivian's vehicles plus come up with a respectable sedan. There is room for an American EV manufacturer, Tesla can't build all the EVs without building several more manufacturing facilities. 
    Tell me, how much cell phone experience did Apple have before entering that market? Any car Apple would build would be a computer on wheels, the same way phones today are computers that make calls now.

    The more things change, the more they stay the same. 
    And old boss once told me, it's easier to take a large project and shrink it down than it is to take a small project and scale it up. Apple already made PDAs, and already knew how to miniaturize technology. Making a car requires thousands more parts than anything Apple currently makes. Your comparison is flawed, at best.
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon

  • Abandoned $10 billion Apple Car project referred to as 'Titanic disaster' by employees

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    Curious that Apple ever believed they could squeeze 40-50% margins (like their current products) out of a car. Most automakers live in the 10-12% range, at best. That was foolishness from the start.
    williamlondon