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You can say the same about automotive driving, it's still "computer business"

• leggomylibro 9y ago
  I dunno; Google's foray into self-driving cars made sense in part because they already had so much experience with 360-degree cameras and spatial mapping and managing international fleets of vehicles, not because they "do computers." Apple's claim to automotive relevance seems to be the idea that they could somehow worm their way into the supply chain of ordinary car manufacturers. As in, Ford, Toyota, Tata, etc. would all have the same iDrive system. To me, this is not only hopelessly naive, but utterly contrary to Apple's consistent insistence on controlling every aspect of their ecosystem. This pivot does not seem like a savvy business move to me. It seems like they see a big market and want to be part of it regardless of their actual...ugh...synergies.