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>Are you sure Apple actually gave up yet? I thought they still have related activity following their recent acquisition of Drive.ai. Back when I was working in
by kace91 7y ago
>Are you sure Apple actually gave up yet? I thought they still have related activity following their recent acquisition of Drive.ai.
Back when I was working in the field of VR, we were all fully convinced that apple was about to go enter the field with some huge breakthrough, since pretty much every niche product for vr devs was being bought as discretely as possible. It was really common to go to some website to find their software or manuals and find out it redirected to apple.com with no further explanation.
Five years have passed since then with nothing to show up for... So I guess the lesson is that you shouldn't take investments as a sign of something cooking, at least not for giants like apple that can afford to spend millions "just in case"
- culturestate 7y ago> I guess the lesson is that you shouldn't take investments as a sign of something cooking Leaving aside acquihires, I think it's always a sign of something cooking. Apple just seems atypically content to let things simmer until they feel they've got a compelling product, and they aren't afraid to kill things that don't work. Sometimes it happens quickly; Fingerworks was acquired in 2005 and the iPhone was released in 2007. The AuthenTec acquisition closed in 2012, and Touch ID showed up in 2013. On the other side, you have acquisitions like PrimeSense. Apple bought them in 2013, and Face ID didn't show up until 2017.
- threeseed 7y agoApple spent 5 years to develop the iPhone. So might need to be a little more patient given that self driving cars is quite a bit more involved.