george kaplan

crowley said:

applesauce007 said:

Here are my predictions:

1.  Toyota

2.  Honda

3.  General Motors

4.  Volvo

5.  Isuzu

Volvo would be an interesting match up.
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Volvo is Chinese-owned and already making electric cars under the Polestar line. Seems unlikely Apple would partner with a supplier building cars in China.

I’m assuming Isuzu was placed on the #5 spot as a joke.

M68000 said:

 One of the real questions of course is who would buy an Apple car?  just because Apple is great at selling hundreds of millions of iPhones ,  that does not mean those customers want or need an Apple car.

Those of us with memories which go back more than a decade recall that same argument was made about cellular phones and watches. Why would a computer company succeed with a cellphone much more expensive than competing models? Why would a computer company hope to carve away a small slice of a watch industry  owned by European manufacturers on the high end and cheap Chinese factories on the low end?

Apple manages to find a way to place the item they’re designing in a different light. The iPhone synthesized the iPod with a phone and rudimentary computer applications, while the Apple Watch took the device deep into areas of fitness and health biometrics. The iPhone is still setting sales records when Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, and HTC are out of the category or simply a trade name for another company. AppleWatch sells multiples of sales volume compared to the titans of the luxury watch industry, and at comparable margins.

Whatever “Apple Car” turns out to be, it will be a rethinking of mobility from what we know now. Simply building another driver-operated passenger car is old thinking. Apple is skating to where the puck will be.

cloudguy said:

Yeah ... no. I have stated several times in the past that Apple TV+ programming is going to struggle to find an audience because - unlike Netflix which is legitimately broad based - Apple TV+ programming is aimed at a coastal, progressive feminist audience. There is virtually no programming aimed at different audiences or truly challenges its target audience. So yes, they have a film set in the south. Big deal....

Maybe 2021 is the year that John Grisham and Nicholas Sparks finally see movies made of their books about the South. They have waited for so long for Hollywood to come calling.

First of all, you didn’t indicate if you had seen “Palmer” but you slaughtered innumerable pixels to tell us that this wasn’t the 

“South”, it was only Hollywood’s depiction of the South.

As one who lives in the exurbs of Charlotte, it is true that it is a very cosmopolitan city, due to an airport which has direct flights to much of the world, and an investment in businesses which involve finance and technology.

I can also drive 5 minutes from my home and see many homes flying the flag of the Confederacy on the flag pole at their home, including one citizen who flies the US flag *below* the Confederate flag, and *upside down*. Others proudly have the 3% flag on their front porch flag pole. Even the urban reaches of the South aren’t magically purged of the remnants of their cliché reputation just because you want it to be true.

For what its worth, the TV series “The Unicorn” is set in Raleigh, but one look at the suburban architecture and the plant life tells you it was shot in LA. Still, this series is very successfully in its second season and nobody seems to mind that the Southerners depicted have all their own teeth. It can’t be that “Hollywood” is reluctant to show this environment, but instead it may be that there is no reason to set a show in Atlanta or Charlotte or wherever if it doesn’t somehow advance the story possibilities. Otherwise, set in in LA, or set it in NYC and shoot it in Toronto.

Rayz2016 said:

I hope no one paid him for that.