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Did it though?

I seriously don't know what's worse. Apple's continued decline in quality control (software & hardware) Soo many problems/bugs nowadays. Or the fact that the competition, STILL HAS NOT been able to make something better. LOSE LOSE as far as i'm concerened.

focher said:

boxcatcher said:

Apple is far too slow and deliberate of a company to leap frog Tesla — that’s not a knock of Apple, just worth factoring in when we try to decipher what Apple is up to.

We don't need Apple to leapfrog Tesla. We need both of them to bring innovation to the legacy car industry.

- Tesla has. Continues to do so. 

jdb8167 said:

Does the background tapping of the NFC tag work on iPhone 7, 8, and X or just on iPhone XS and XR? I can’t find the information on Apple’s dev pages. The iPhone 7, 8 and X all have NFC hardware and can read and write but previously they couldn’t work in the background and I can’f find information on whether that has changed or not.

Yes will work with “background tapping” on the 7,8 and X. 

Lidar is the wrong way to go. High cost, slow, high energy. Not a great application for automotive. Betting against Elon Musk is a bad idea. Landing a rocket is more of a better use for lidar. (Space X). This is not speculative. It's fact. Unless something changes, and someone comes up with a different implementation and much more effecient use of LIDAR between now and then. Highly unlikely. I work with all these systems, daily. Besides Apple is more a Toy company these days. They seldom done well in enterprise, because they have half baked solutions, poor security, non-flexible systems, (does not work well with others). Contrary to what some of Apple's strongest marketing has fed to us for years.