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bulk001 said:

Only time will tell if you are right. Why don’t you reschedule this post for an update in 2 years. Personally my money is on the DOJ who, you know has actual lawyers and stuff, as opposed to two writers of an Apple blog. 

drdeade said:

It’s typical that most of the posts on here are from the Apple worshipping side.  Frankly as a stock holder Apple should be liable to its share holders and a debacle like the EV apple car should result in a lawsuit that punishes apple for recklessly following a bad idea!  Thats money that could have been paid for dividends!  That’s money that could have been put back into the software which quite frankly stinks!  It’s important for people to realize that corporations are beholden to the stock holders.  Their focus must be based on profit for their share holders who have “loaned” apple the money to do what it is that they do.  In return those share holders should be compensated.  Apple doesn’t give shares but after this disgusting mess they should and Tim Cook should finally, and I mean finally be fired from his position.  When Apple moves from California which they will, Mr. Cook will have even more to defend for his enormous wasting of the Apple headquarters which is become more and more vacant!  I know that I ‘m ranting but as far as tech goes all were seeing is the result of giant monopolies that are hindering new technology and pirating patents from the small guy and only forced to pay when they have to, but only after much time and money spent on attorneys.  Apple: Ditch Cook, get real about development!  Look to see how creative people work.  Develop a pen to paper interface to capture the authenticity of real live creativity.  Use ingenuity to move the human spirit and stop miring down creativity with over emphasis on sexuality!  It simply doesn’t belong in the corporate culture.  Not one other company celebrates hetero day and I ‘m for everyone being treated equally and fairly but you’re letting it interfere with your production by not rewarding hard working people based on merit and it shows in your product.  ( Whew.  Now I can get down off my soap box.).  

nubus said:

I don't get the "Apple will reap giant rewards". Apple spent +10 billion on this, 10 years, moved clever people away from other projects which likely could have improved AI, used management resources, and didn't deliver. Consumers spend big money on two items: cars and homes. Apple Car was the path towards selling services and financing. Amazon isn't only a bookstore, Microsoft is more than Windows and Word. Tesla is moving into homes. 

This is an epic failure. You can't spend 10 billion and 10 years without delivering. To quote Jobs: Real artists ship. They had a lot of lofty ideas but couldn't make it into a product. There is no shortage on ideas - anyone can have ideas. But artists... those are the ones to hire. Why keep them? And this reflects directly back on Cook. He could have made Toyota, Ford, and VW look like Nokias. Instead Cook made Apple look like Xerox PARC: A lot of research without products.

Now... Apple clearly delivered AVP, and so it is not all Xerox. This however isn't the only huge research project that Apple decided to ship without a clear raison d'être. The Apple, IBM, Motorola (AIM) alliance delivered PowerPC, but it also gave the world OpenDoc. At launch I got the chance to interview the head of the Apple Advanced Technology Group. I'm a bit worried that AVP was shipped in the same way as OpenDoc - someone got an idea and the company wasn't able to stop it. It took Jobs to kill OpenDoc. Cook is not a product zar, he got blinded by the design team (6 years of butterfly keyboards, the stupid Pro Trash design,...), and now Cook got blinded by science (to quote Thomas Dolby).

I'm worried about how Apple is working with ideas and projects. Don't go Xerox on us.

cpsro said:

Apple has a bit of a slog ahead with the already-released Vision Pro. Maintaining two such costly efforts would be too much.

AppleInsider said:

Why a new Apple Pencil is needed

The overall design needs an upgrade, especially given the odd design corner Apple has painted itself into. The Apple Pencil 2 is charged via two magnetic conductors on the side when attached to an iPad, which requires plenty of internal space.

That long side of the iPad was otherwise unoccupied until iPad 10 when Apple shifted the selfie camera to the landscape side. This move is better for video conferencing when using an attached keyboard but eliminates the ability to charge the Pencil with inductive charging.

Simply moving the charging point wasn't possible since the conductors are spaced a certain distance apart on the Apple Pencil. Moving it to any other side would interfere with speakers, buttons, charging ports, or the smart connector.

There was space for magnets to keep a pencil attached, but the components needed for charging took up too much space.

Instead, Apple opted for a dongle to let the USB-C iPad connect to the Lightning first-generation Pencil. Later, the Apple Pencil with USB-C was introduced to solve the odd problem.

chasm said:

My own personal guess, given the existence of motherboards for autonomous vehicles one guy is literally being prosecuted for stealing, is that THAT was Apple’s real aim — creating a system for self-driving vehicles that could be licensed, along with the other Apple tech, to focus on the driver-passenger experience and amplify the iPhone connection to the car.