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  • Apple researching refinements to sunroofs, seating for 'Project Titan' car

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    volcan said:
    Rayz2016 said:

    I would imagine that when you book the car, it’ll want to know how many passengers, and if you need cargo space. It’ll also want to know where you’re going so it can work out whether or not you really need a 4x4. 

    And after a few weeks, it’ll know that this is a regular journey. 

    No way. I can afford the convenience of having my own vehicles. With a ride share you are just guessing that the driver has a license and insurance and is not on drugs. Who knows if the ride share even has roadside assistance in case of a mechanical problem. I took one in NYC and he had to drive around looking for a gas station. Maybe I'm just spoiled but I'll stick with my own vehicles whenever possible, although I do have a limo service I use to go to and from the airport, but even with an expensive service like that you never know what you are going to get. 

    There are lots of little things like keeping an emergency preparedness kit in my car since we live in an earthquake zone. I seriously doubt many ride share drivers have that.
    I wasn't talking about ride share - I mean autonomous vehicles that buzz about by themselves. If you live in an urban setting it would be such a benefit. If you need to go out of town you get a self drive delivered. If you like driving for real you need to go to a track. I have test driven Porches at a local test track and there is no better fun. But driving in traffic... I'd rather sleep. Wait, with an autonomous car service I can do both. :) 
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  • Apple researching refinements to sunroofs, seating for 'Project Titan' car

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    lkrupp said:
    So what would the better track for Apple be? Build its own Apple branded car or buy Tesla? How about maybe contracting with Tesla to build the Apple car. Musk might buy into that for a cash infusion. Surely none of the major car manufacturers would do that, would they?

    In either event I’m hoping I live to be able to buy a self-driving electric vehicle. I just turned 68 and would love to just get in such a vehicle and tell it to take me to wherever I want to go. So tired of driving after 52 years of it. I’ve pretty much given up hope of living to see a colony on the Moon or a manned mission to Mars. I can still cross my fingers for SETI to find ET in my lifetime. B)
    I would much rather see Apple 'disrupt' the old and tired car ownership model than create another car to sit in my driveway and congest the roads. I would love not to have to own a car at all - on average a car spends 95% of its time parked in the driveway, and we all know what a commuter run looks like - a million cars wth a single person in each vehicle. I would love to have a ride subscription - and of course I'd like it to be part of my iCloud family plan. So... 'Hey Siri, I need a car in 10'. I step out and into the 'whatever it is', which then takes me to where I want to go and then goes on its merry way. 

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  • Apple's new head of Apple Music publicity worked with Metallica, Madonna, more

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    SpamSandwich said:
    Iovine and Dre were dead weight and they should've never been given any kind of advisory role at Apple.
    rogifan_new said:
    Iovine and Dre were dead weight and they should've never been given any kind of advisory role at Apple.

    Apple should never have purchased Beats. They didn’t need it to stand up a streaming music service.
    I wonder if Apple would agree. Still, what do they know, eh? :smiley: 
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  • How to find Apple's Numbers power spreadsheet features behind the simplicity

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    Every time Numbers is the subject the same conclusion can be drawn - For most people Numbers is great. More than capable and very user friendly. For power users Excel is the beast of choice. I don't think Apple has any desire to replace Excel with Numbers. The only problem for me as an long time Excel user was that the interface was different. For that reason most spreadsheet user probably prefer Excel - because that is what they know. I changed over years ago and much prefer Numbers. I use it on a daily basis for my business, but I never have to share with anyone. I do have Excel and when someone sends me an Excel doc once in a blue moon, I use it.

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  • Apple sued over claims website is inaccessible to visually impaired users

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    tallest skil said:
    Touchscreens seem like an impassible wall for impaired usability, but Apple made sure to accommodate users as they’d done before. And they did it without compromising on anyone else.
    Yes, I am amazed that Apple managed to make the iPhone the go to device for blind users. Generally speaking when accessibility is built in 'by design' everybody benefits. If not immediately then eventually (We all get old :neutral: ) 
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