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"Apple shows up to Drive.ai liquidation sale" would be more informative. A small number of employees and some assets were brought over.
by iandanforth 7y ago
"Apple shows up to Drive.ai liquidation sale" would be more informative. A small number of employees and some assets were brought over.
- jaimex2 7y agoWorth it for the domain name.
- MR4D 7y agoI think Apple is holding out for i.Drive instead. :)
- gumby 7y agoJoke is great but raises a serious (well, non-joking) question. iDrive is a brand used by a German car company (BMW? Audi?). When the iPhone launched, it turned out after launch that Cisco owned the trademark. When Apple got going they had a trademark dispute with Apple Records (the Beatles' publishing company) which was easily settled as Apple in California was clearly a computer company....until decades later they launched Apple Music. So...your joke may not be off the mark.
- throwaway082729 7y agoMaybe iTDrives
- quickthrower2 7y agoHumanless Horseless Carriage
- gumby 7y agoYou make me wnoder where the self-driving horse-and-buggies are.
- toasterlovin 7y agoNew Apple products simply use the company's name followed by the generic name for the product. So, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Apple Pay, etc. Makes it almost impossible for another company to squat on a future product name
- armadsen 7y agoYeah, they've been pretty deliberate about moving away from 'i' names lately. In macOS Catalina, even iTunes will be gone, replaced by Music.app. iMessage -> Messages, iBooks -> Books, etc. iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, iMac are the biggest holdouts, and they haven't named a new product iSomething for many years now.
- bredren 7y agoIndeed. i is over.
- bredren 7y agoActually, iPadOS is perhaps a counter-example. But maybe they had no choice to keep name symmetry there.
- toasterlovin 7y agoI would say that iPadOS is the exception that proves the rule. The only reason it starts with an 'i' is because it's name derives directly from a 10 year old product.
- bredren 7y agoI was not familiar with this expression "exception that proves the rule," but I agree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule
- codetrotter 7y agoI phone, you drive — and by “you” I mean the car, driving itself. They should name it uDrive.
- phs318u 7y agoOr Drive.me
- lpcvoid 7y agoiDrive is a BMW Brand.
- Animats 7y agoWell, at least Drive.ai's creditors have a good chance of being paid. It's not yet clear if the "mass layoffs" planned for Friday will still happen.[1] Does anybody, anywhere, have a reliable self-driving car in use on public streets without a "safety driver"? Waymo did briefly, but backed off. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/25/18758820/drive-ai-self-driving-startup-shutting-down-apple https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/25/18758820/drive-ai-self-dr...
- drawnwren 7y agoIs Waymo not driving fully autonomous in Phoenix still? Edit: It looks like they aren't [1] 1: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18536003/waymo-lyft-self-driving-ride-hail-app-phoenix https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18536003/waymo-lyft-self-d...
- pauljurczak 7y agoNo.
- xxxpupugo 7y agoThinking of the liability and the bad press had there is one accident occurred... Unless self-driving had been proven super reliable and all the regulation and liability had been sorted out like it is the case with aviation, I don't think any sane companies will risk that much.