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lkrupp said:

Kuyangkoh said:

thinkman@chartermi.net said:

Very early on there was a really attractive concept image of what an Apple Car would look like………but it seems forever now that everyone writing about the mystery car uses this horrific image. Imagine a head-on crash with virtually no front end as this image shows. If and when an actual car is released, it needs to put the fine Tesla designed cars to shame. But most importantly it needs to be THE FULLY AUTONOMOUS CAR the world's been waiting for.

Well....it’s gonna be a longggggg wait. By that time Tesla would be logging miles and miles of robo taxis and autonomous vehicles, my 1 cent hehe

Right, Apple always late to the game... and then they wind up dominating the market, my 1 cent hehe

Apple is better at creating mobile devices then anyone, so I’m sure they will dominate AR.  It is hard for anyone to match them in that space, but I’m not sure about automotive.  I think it will at least be a good product if it is released.  The biggest advantage is their work in custom processors and AR to help create a self driving feature.  This is otherwise new territory.  I think the iPad was largely a success because Apple was so much better at making mobile electronics then anyone else coupled with the existing app ecosystem that nobody else had a chance.  There is nothing like that for cars so this is the product I’m most uncertain about Apple absolutely dominating in.

tht said:

Uh, I thought a car is what everyone thinks Apple is working on? Is there anybody out there who thinks Apple is building self-driving car software that they will sell or license to other car manufacturers?

No chance.  Apple might allow services like Apple Music and TV+ to run on other platforms, but they would never build a component of someone else’s system.  The user experience is the most important thing for Apple.  They wouldn’t give that up.  Even CarPlay uses the dashboard as an external monitor so that as much as possible can stay in an Apple device.  This will definitely be a full vehicle or it will be canceled and the tech factored in to other Apple initiatives like AR.  It wouldn’t surprise me if they have a traditional automaker assemble the Apple car if they can find an automaker that would agree to this, but it would be fully designed and branded as Apple.

When the A12X originally came out, Apple said “ delivers Xbox One S class graphics performance in a product that’s 94% smaller.”

I don’t see how they have a case.  This was on the spec sheet.  One reason I chose the max as someone who (used to) travels a lot.  This is equivalent to a class action against an automaker for only disclosing that the smaller engine on a lower end model has less horsepower on a spec sheet.  How does this make sense.  Obviously there are going to be differences between an expensive phone and an inexpensive one.

seanismorris said:

Re:

"consumers just don't see anything they want yet' in the field of AR

This is a true statement.  The key word is “yet”.  

Paying for AR before it’s useful is a waste of money.  It’s no more useful (at the moment) than a folding screen.

Why spend $1000 for something, when you can spend $500 and get an already overpowered device...

Even if you don’t find AR useful, this sensor will improve photo quality and effects significantly.  As Google and Apple go back and forth on photo quality, this will give Apple a big boost for this cycle.  That is definitely something everyone will use.  You may find that AR is more useful in the new phone and tablet then it used to be since it should activate much faster and continues to be refined.  The big issue before was the amount of time it took to learn your surroundings.