Apple is a consumer electronics company with supply chain expertise for sourcing a bunch of components from various manufactures. Aside from maybe sourcing batt

Apple is a consumer electronics company with supply chain expertise for sourcing a bunch of components from various manufactures. Aside from maybe sourcing battery cells, those skills do not meaningfully transfer. Perhaps their design expertise transfers. But, at least in terms of their industrial design, curved aluminum is pretty common for the automative industry. Indeed, one might argue that Apple was applying such design concepts, beautifully and with great skill,to electronics. The software might help, but 1) isn't something Tesla need to differentiate themselves on further at lest yet and 2) excluding android may not be something Tesla is willing to do.