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The car industry is much more mature than the smartphone industry when iPhone was introduced. It will be much harder to convince anyone to buy your car over the
by kyriakos 10y ago
The car industry is much more mature than the smartphone industry when iPhone was introduced. It will be much harder to convince anyone to buy your car over the trusted brands or tesla
- nardi 10y agoLike software was about to eat communication in 2006, software is about to eat transportation now.
- kyriakos 10y agothe difference is that back then you could buy off-the-shelf components and have your phone built in china (what apple did and does). you can't easily do the same with a car. yes apple can create good software for a car but they might be better off licensing it to car manufacturers than providing an end to end solution.
- matt4077 10y agoYou can easily outsource car manufacturing as well. You're also underestimating the amount of hardware design Apple did and does. They don't buy the display, cpu, touchscreen, battery or much else off the shelf.
- danpalmer 10y agoThe electric car industry however, is not. They share a fair amount, but there are also a lot of significant differences that have only really been explored at scale by a few companies for a few years.