Wasn't the Apple Car a Steve Jobs idea originally? Wikipedia says: > In February 2015, Apple board member Mickey Drexler stated that Apple co-founder and CEO S

Wasn't the Apple Car a Steve Jobs idea originally? Wikipedia says: > In February 2015, Apple board member Mickey Drexler stated that Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs had plans to design and build a car and that discussions about the concept surfaced around the time that Tesla Motors debuted its first car in 2008. Mind you, Jobs had been dead for several years by 2015, so who knows how serious or committed he would have been to it if he'd lived. In general, I have no problem with companies making bets on a variety of products. The bit about Apple not having the most resources stopped being true. They succeeded as underdogs because they saw what other companies were doing already, and then integrated those inventions into Apple's own vision of the world. (The Airport is a great example of this. Apple did not exactly invent wifi.) But now that Apple hovers at or near being the biggest tech company in the world from week to week, there's an argument that they have to be the ones to invest in early research and skunkworks projects, because they've bent the industry around them. Everybody is now reacting to the world Apple remade in their image, and there aren't as many companies doing wildly different stuff for Apple to purchase and integrate into a radical vision. So, it's only right for Apple to be doing this stuff themselves, and we should expect them to fail at it more often than they succeed because that's just how it works. And I assume the reason they're not setting the world on fire as often as they used to isn't because of lack of focus, it's because Steve Jobs was a rare individual with a set of skills and, uhh, personal quirks that make him hard to replace.