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josha said:

ireland said:

My hunch is Apple Car project hasn't stopped and won't. They're working on a car. Vertical company.

I sure hope Apple isn't working on a complete car.
The computer technology for self driving is where Apple should be.

the future car need new design, away from the gas engin that required cooling air inlet, shift, gear, control panels for various meters.  just doing software without the overhaul of a car would be half assed job.  without restriction  of front engin compartment, completely different control panel for driveless car, it would be perfect time to optimize the whole car.  Tasla put all required hardware in every car they build is a smart move try to set up some kind of platform at this standardless early stage with sufficient installed base.  if apple just doing software only, it would risk to force to follow the std set by other company, specifically, car makers.  

misa said:

My hope here is that some regulations come down the pipe regarding batteries large enough to ignite, that they have a physical "kill switch" or the battery be ejectable to ensure that the user isn't harmed, and they can be safely mailed back. Even then, if the problem is something to do with the battery internals, the battery might still spontaneously combust.

bomb is bad (exploded battery), sling gun (eject able battery) even worse... stop weaponize the commercial product please.

lkrupp said:

Well, people are still buying Volkswagens so...

be fair to VW, besides cheating on environmental std, quality is not bad... German design still holds some price.. F1 included.  

anyone know what is the problem? none of the theory out there explain why it explode after charge, mostly, just sitting around... not during charge, firm ware update didn't help (charge up to 60%, 3xxx battery basically only used a bit more than half capacity), the phone on the airplane may experience pressure change, but with casing around, it can't deform  that much, unless the casing like soft packet (watch your potato chip bag inflated on airplane?  don't  open it...;-).learn from someone else mistake is priceless treat... anyone care to shin light? thx in advance...it just didn't make any sense with all the stuff they put out there...

svanthem said:

So this 5c stymies the entire FBI who has to pay a hacker a zillion dollars to get it done and this guy does it in 40 hours with a $100 of hardware? Am I missing something here?

The "guy" is super smart computer geek professor from top notch university in UK.  FBI may not have access to his brain at any price.  As for $100 or so hardware, it depend upon the user/designer, not the hardware... you missing big here.  Knowing who is the best in the field is priceless.