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No, they genuinely tried with every Tesla reject they could hire.
by jaimex2 3y ago
No, they genuinely tried with every Tesla reject they could hire.
- HumblyTossed 3y agoFair, but I just still can't believe it. It's not a core competency.
- MikusR 3y agoTheir core competency was the Jobs' reality distortion field
- andyjohnson0 3y agoApple believes that designing technology-mediated experiences is a core competency. That, and a large degree of overconfidence, are what got them into it. As to what kept them there: sunk costs and that same overconfidence?
- mynameisvlad 3y agoiPhones, iPads and hell even the iPod line weren’t core competencies until they were released and did well. Apple for a long time was Apple Computers after all.
- threetonesun 3y agoAn iPhone/iPad is a variation of a laptop at the end of the day. The iPod was the start of their other core competency, services + licensing, and the iTunes store. The car project has always seemed like a "we have too much money" project. Or a good idea from someone who never leaves their perfect spaceship campus.
- mynameisvlad 3y ago> The iPod was the start of their other core competency, services + licensing, and the iTunes store. Sure, but when it launched, and while it was developed, this was not even remotely considered a core competency of the company. Which was my point. That core competency did not exist when the iPod was being worked on (and presumably could have been canned). And that’s the same case here. > An iPhone/iPad is a variation of a laptop at the end of the day. That’s an extreme stretch. To the point where Apple itself disagrees with how they’re being segmented. If it was just a variation, you’d have seen a combination of product lines and features at this point.
- threetonesun 3y agoThey've pitched the iPad Pro as a laptop replacement many times, segmented only by the fact that they'd prefer you buy one of everything. They built their own framework to run the same apps across all three devices. More to the point in a discussion about cars, they mostly share the same hardware as well. None of them have a suspension, or a motor, or wheels, or....
- HumblyTossed 3y agoiPhones, iPods, Watches, iPads, etc are all variations on computers. Yes, they are very much Apple's core competency. A Car, not so much.
- mynameisvlad 3y agoIf you want to define a computer that broadly, then what exactly are modern cars but computers with engines/motors and wheels? Hell, some new cars are literally driven by a computer, both in the AI sense and in that your steering wheel movements are not directly connected to your front wheels. An EPU for a long time has controlled how an engine runs, which is a literal computer. New cars’ components are connected with automotive-grade Ethernet. They use a screen to interface with “apps” like media playback and navigation. They connect to external services and devices like your phone. What, exactly, makes it not a computer, if we’re defining the term loosely enough to encompass practically all devices Apple makes right now?
- HumblyTossed 3y agoGoing from a personal computer to a tablet or phone is not a stretch. Trying to include a freaking car is. Come on.
- mynameisvlad 3y agoWhy, exactly, is that a stretch? I gave reasons as to why a car is a computer. Examples of parallels between it and phones/tablets/computers and examples of the literal interconnected computers being used in modern cars. You’ve done nothing but say it’s a stretch in two different ways now with no justification or reasoning. If you don’t have any actual reasons or rebuttals, then there’s nothing left to discuss.
- ijijijjij 3y agophones are computers after all... they just try to limit their features for some reason.