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I wish they’d stop doing buy backs and invest 100B in R&D … imagine what they could do in battery tech or otherwise.
by gigatexal 6mo ago
I wish they’d stop doing buy backs and invest 100B in R&D … imagine what they could do in battery tech or otherwise.
- echelon 6mo agoThey really should have built a car. It'd make them leaders in batteries. It'd keep America at the forefront of EVs. Huge disappointment.
- MoonWalk 6mo ago"Keep?" If it ever was at the forefront, those days are gone and fading fast.
- MaysonL 6mo agoActually, the product they should build is an ebike. They should buy Weel.[1] [1] https://insideevs.com/news/614379/weel-evb-electric-concept-bike/ https://insideevs.com/news/614379/weel-evb-electric-concept-...
- JKCalhoun 6mo agoNot sure we need yet another unaffordable luxury car brand.
- gigatexal 6mo agoI never know why this keeps getting downvoted, is HN really full of investors and not engineers? why do you want buy backs and not R&D?
- LexGray 6mo agoBecause Apple dropped 10 billion on car research which was an apparent fail. Far simpler and cheaper to snipe startups where you know you are getting a proven product. That comes with a fresh batch of engineers in most cases who specialize in the tech so you skip a lot of the hiring/training steps. If I had an R&D request it would be they train some machine models on their developer feedback and public feedback databases to give some guidance on where the real holes are and what people are actually hoping for. I certainly never wanted a car from them… the whole Apple business model is reducing the moving parts to reduce product failures and a car would be a huge regression.