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Some weeks ago Elon Musk said that he thinks that Apple is a bigger competitor than Google but that Apple is coming (too) late to the show. Elon also said the

by huuu 10y ago

Some weeks ago Elon Musk said that he thinks that Apple is a bigger competitor than Google but that Apple is coming (too) late to the show. Elon also said the car market is huge, very huge. So Tesla and Apple are just small compared to others. If you talk about car competition you should take a look at the big players. Volvo for example is already running tests with complete autonomous cars (100 people driving them). And almost all other brands have self driving cars and electric cars. So I don't think Apple as a competitor has anything to do with it. Apple is just too small in this industry (for now). And as for Apple becoming a power company: it's still unclear what Apple is going to do with it in the future. For now they are just selling the excess power they create with the solar panels on the campus and other places.

leoc 10y ago
> Elon also said the car market is huge, very huge. So Tesla and Apple are just small compared to others. Yes, but they'll probably tend to be competing for the same, much smaller, portion of it.
mattferderer 10y ago
That was at the Recode conference I believe. The interview can be found on YouTube. Well worth the watch.
martin_bech 10y ago
I would like to add that Apple has a history of changing markets it enters, and in such a way that Apple takes most, if not all of the profits. Smartphones is a gigantic market, and all the profits belong to Apple.
- eonw 10y ago
  you might want to check your numbers on that. based on real numbers, android is kicking iOS by a good margin, and samsung is selling way more units then apple. i think you've drinking too much of apples kool-aid. http://bgr.com/2016/05/23/smartphone-market-share-q1-2016/ http://bgr.com/2016/05/23/smartphone-market-share-q1-2016/
  - nier 10y ago
    "With 17.2% of the smartphone market in 2015, Apple captured 91% of the profit." Source: http://fortune.com/2016/02/14/apple-mobile-profit-2015/ http://fortune.com/2016/02/14/apple-mobile-profit-2015/

by huuu 10y ago

leoc 10y ago

> Elon also said the car market is huge, very huge. So Tesla and Apple are just small compared to others. Yes, but they'll probably tend to be competing for the same, much smaller, portion of it.

mattferderer 10y ago

That was at the Recode conference I believe. The interview can be found on YouTube. Well worth the watch.

martin_bech 10y ago

I would like to add that Apple has a history of changing markets it enters, and in such a way that Apple takes most, if not all of the profits. Smartphones is a gigantic market, and all the profits belong to Apple.

eonw 10y ago
you might want to check your numbers on that. based on real numbers, android is kicking iOS by a good margin, and samsung is selling way more units then apple. i think you've drinking too much of apples kool-aid. http://bgr.com/2016/05/23/smartphone-market-share-q1-2016/ http://bgr.com/2016/05/23/smartphone-market-share-q1-2016/
- nier 10y ago
  "With 17.2% of the smartphone market in 2015, Apple captured 91% of the profit." Source: http://fortune.com/2016/02/14/apple-mobile-profit-2015/ http://fortune.com/2016/02/14/apple-mobile-profit-2015/