SOoooo, various news stories have said that Apple wants to get into the car business.

Isn't this the same apple that couldn't even make a simple navigation ap work on their iphone?


AND yes i am pissed at their choice of a project name.

 

So pissed you started two threads about it!

I heard this was speculation based on a law suit filed by A123 regarding the "theft" of battery engineers. Has Apple now admitted they are, in fact, building cars?

 

If Apple builds cars I predict they will be sleek with tasteful, trend-setting styling and will be known as Carts. They will be easy to drive with outstanding ergonomics and an infotainment system your aunt Mildred could figure out.

I predict that the first version will spontaneously turn left regardless of whether nor not it is in an intersection at the time. In spite of this, it will win the coveted Motor Trend Car of the Year award three years in a row or as new software updates become available. I further predict that a Cart will cost 30% more than the average for other electrics and that only Apple brand tires, windshield wipers, floor mats, and brake pads will fit, and that use of electricity from non-apple sources will void the warranty.

Apple will tout the fact that Apple Carts (v1.0) are smaller than the current Volt and are the perfect size for most drivers. After Chevy increases the size of its next generation Volt, Apple will release a larger model, the Apple CartPlus in almost exactly the same form factor as the original Volt. Apple will then tout CartPlus as the perfect size for most drivers. A groundswell of customer complaints will result from a youtube video showing a CartPlus bending in half as it runs over a railroad crossing grade, or perhaps large speed bump.

I predict that Apple Carts will only run on 32% of U.S. highways, being incompatible with the rest. However the brand will do well in Northern California, especially among writers and those who work in the arts. Maintenance will only be available at so-called Genius Garages where the high service rates will be somewhat offset by the free lattes and wifi available in the customer lounge where the film "Jobs" runs on continuous loop on the video wall.

 

From http://members.tripod.com/shadab_shaikh/carsa.html



If Apple Made Cars
We get Microsoft humor all the time, here's a little Mac humor...

Top 10 ways that life would be different if Apple sold cars.

10. Cars would be priced higher than they are worth and come from a single source just like they do now. But Apple would continuously advertise that buying one of their cars is an escape from that kind of old style paradigm.

9. Apple would be continually lobbying the government to subsidize the donation of cars to schools for driver education.

8. Cars would need excessive horsepower to operate more than one accessory at a time.

7. Many accessories would operate differently but owners would ignore this and boast to their friends that all of their accessories have an identical look and feel.

6. Help regarding the operation of their accessories would be only marginally better than those who drove UNIX cars but the owners would boast that this is of no concern because all of their accessories have an identical look and feel.

5. Owners manuals would be very small. Maintenance manuals, needed to add an accessory yourself, would come in seven large volumes.

4. Owners would make fun of how complex it is to add an accessory on other cars. Owners would not have a clue just how difficult it was for them to add an accessory to their own car themselves. Very few owners of Apple cars would add their own accessories.

3. Periodically a little picture of a bomb would appear on the dashboard and the car would come to a stop. Loyal owners would rarely, if ever, admit this and would convince themselves that this sort of thing happens to owners of other cars all the time.

2. People who could never drive before would begin driving, join auto clubs, tell everyone else how to drive, and generally become insufferable bores.

And the number one way life would be different if Apple built cars...

1. Using the fruits of a larger company's focused research and development effort cars would be introduced that were 10 years ahead of their time. After release, they wouldn't change for over 10 years...

 

I was hoping for more doggie photos. I don't care about cars.

 

Stupid database error.

 

I predict that if Apple produces a car, it will not only be electric, but will be self driven.

 

But don't you think it would be called the iCart. It could shoot video, play video, make music, play music, and all the time be virus free - so no bugs to clean off the windshield, and best of all you get to see whereever you are going before you get there from the iCloud.

 

No Silly you use the iCloud to get the moisture for the windshield washers.
besides rollovers might be prevalent as are usually the case with spilling the Apple Cart.

What folks wouldn't immediately recognize would be you could only fuel or charge at Apple charging stations.
Apple would get 25% of all revenues from the stations as a service fee.

 

The only downfall I can see to that business plan is not being a stockholder.