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Apple's "Car" will not be a traditional "Car". I don't know why so many keep thinking this will be the case. Completely remove all those assumptions you have ab
by BluSyn 6y ago
Apple's "Car" will not be a traditional "Car". I don't know why so many keep thinking this will be the case. Completely remove all those assumptions you have about what a car is today, and think what it will be in 10 years. As Jobs said, go to where the puck will be.
All the predictions out there are 100% wrong, inaccurate, and lazy. Apple will NOT release a "car" as you currently know it.
It will be software on wheels; it will be an entertainment system, work/social hub, and by accident happen to take you places. It won't have a steering wheel. It won't need maintenance or a dealership network like traditional auto makers. It won't need insurance or even a drivers' license to own, because you won't be operating it. There's a good chance you won't even be able to OWN it. Those future profit margins exist is the future automatous taxi fleet, the entertainment system, and the ecosystem that exists inside and around the car as a product.
There's so much potential here if you just forget what you already know. Yes, Apple will partner with some existing manufacture to produce the car (like they do with existing products). No, it won't be based on any existing platform, it will be built from the ground up, both hardware and software, and be totally unlike anything that currently exists.
Apple is laser focused on one thing: the end user experience -- take the user somewhere, with as little input as possible, and wow the consumer with something so profound they didn't even know they wanted it; instantly make everything before look so old and clunky you will never look back.
Think back to UX 101: All user input is error.
- actuator 6y agoIsn't this exactly Waymo's playbook? Not saying Apple won't do a better job at it, but it sounds exactly what Waymo seems to be aiming for.
- BluSyn 6y agoYes. Unfortunately Waymo continues to act more like an R&D company not a product company. Ultimately I don't think Waymo will be a major player when it all shakes out.
- actuator 6y agoI actually like Waymo's cautious slow roll out of self driving compared to what Tesla seems to be doing. I agree with your larger point though. I don't know what Waymo is doing internally but we haven't seen a complete product vision outside.
- deathgrips 6y ago>It won't need maintenance or a dealership network like traditional auto makers Apple's UI is so clean that it actually reverses entropy.
- jedberg 6y ago> As Jobs said, go to where the puck will be. Pretty sure that was Wayne Gretzky.