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  • Ford poaches Apple executive for Ford+ restructure

    mark fearingmark fearing
    Does she get to live in Michigan? I hope they tripled her pay.
    watto_cobra

  • 'Apple Car' team dissolved & 2025 launch may be in doubt says Ming-Chi Kuo

    mark fearingmark fearing
    tjwolf said:
    shareef777 said:
    Considering how often I've read this team gets dissolved, I'm not sure the Apple Car will ever be a thing.
    It's not even clear it ever was a thing!  That's the nice thing about rumors - you start one and then simply start another one saying the parties to the first rumor changed their plans.  Voila, you've gotten clicks/revenue on both.

    Apple definitely wants to be in its customers' cars.  But I always thought their ambitions lay solely in CarPlay with a future version of CarPlay reaching further into the car - e.g. providing self-driving capabilities, etc.  Building your own cars is not only highly capital intensive, it's also not all that lucrative - at least not compared to the 30+% margins Apple gets from its iDevices and 70+% on its services.  Were any of the rumors that Apple was approaching car manufacturers to build a car from them ever substantiated?  I mean, I have no doubt Apple did talk to various manufacturers about such a partnership, but that could have just been to inform themselves what the margins, in fact, would be.

    There is supposedly a "Project Titan" at Apple that relates to the car.  But that could simply be a software team working on self-driving features of a future CarPlay, no?
    YUP. All rumors. No idea if the company was looking into it as a manufacturer or just looking into the tech behind it all to have a seat at the table. All rumors. Nothing ever said by the company. The project could be entirely software based. And it really is a totally different biz. My feeling always was, if they were going to get into it it would be through a service. In large cities you could join for X-dollars a month, perhaps in three tiers and have access to self driving cars of different sizes/scales. That’s the only way this makes sense. They do not want to start selling cars directly to consumers.
    StrangeDayswatto_cobra

  • Sideloading is a malware danger, Apple tells U.S. lawmakers

    mark fearingmark fearing
    Side loading will harm many consumers. It will lead to an increase in fraud, an increase in personal data being stolen and all that follows. What I don’t understand is that there is a platform that allows it, a platform that most Android users say is better anyway. If you really want that aspect on your phone -side loading- there is the top selling ‘phone os’ available in multiple price points. So why turn iOS into what’s already there? It’s such a dumb argument that iOS has to be like Android. That consumers shouldn’t have a choice between systems. Ultimately that’s what the side loading fanatics are asking - make everything the same. 
    qwerty52DBSyncjony0

  • Amazon closing all of its brick-and-mortar bookstores and '4-Star' locations

    mark fearingmark fearing
    It was sort of a Hail-Mary for the viability of retail on a broader scale. If they can't make it work I'm not sure who will. Obviously specialty stores (Apple) seem to be doing OK for a number of reasons (customers touching the tech) but general stores like what the Amazon store was are in bad shape. I went into the local Amazon store every time we were at the mall, which across the last 2 years wasn't much. But the stores were nice looking and staffed well. I think I bought a book or something there once or twice.
    watto_cobra

  • Epic Games acquires Bandcamp to create 'fair' platforms for creators

    mark fearingmark fearing
    Yes, buying companies and creating a single company platform seems pretty, pretty, pretty similar to some other companies we know.
    watto_cobra