Bloomberg: Apple targets 2028 release date for its own electric vehicle::Project Titan, the Apple electric car project, has been underway since 2015. But the project has faced numerous delays and…
- Proprietary charging ports/stations, $50/KWh.
- Increasingly slower acceleration as the vehicle goes out of warranty.
- Any attempt at repairing faults with the car is a breach of TOS.
- Turn signals, headlights, stereo… all features are $5/month on the Apple Store.
- Apple Maps will guide you into ravines and gardens.
Apple lovers would mortgage their home just to be on the waiting list.
- The underside is made of glass.
- You have to hold the steering wheel at 9 and 3 or it won’t work.
- Is only compatible with the Apple ecosystem of accessories such as wheels, tires, child seats etc.
The charge port is on the bottom.
Acceleration and brake pedals are butterfly
Door close sensors have to be calibrated upon replacement by a proprietary tool not made available to the public
EU forces USB-C charger on it because the board computer is technically a smartphone.
Locks you out if it detects an Android device on you or any of your passengers.
Nonono! That’s not how “you’re holding it wrong works! It’s 11 and 7.
- 3rd party charging stations throttled to half of power
- 3rd party parts will display random errors while driving
- glowing apple logo 24/7
- system updated till 2100
- locked bootloader
- proprietary tires
- 583 types of screwdrivers required to disassemble 83636 unique screws
- scientists having to invent new substance to unglue battery
- critical error no 62 bricking car, no one knows what it means
- fatal design flaw gets never fixed, drop of water connects engine trace with main computer trace, everything burned with 100 kV
- hard to reach weak chip, because manufacturer wanted to save $0.0006
- proprietary light bulbs, tires and air valves.
- can only open anything engine related like fluids at the dealership.
- can only fix broken windows at the dealership.
- repairing means having to swap the old car for a new one for a fee, or stay with the defective car. The old car will be shredded to “save the environment”, following their “green” practices.
- seats are sold separately, are basic with no adjustability but follow aesthetic. Costs $10,000 each.
- replaces high and low beams with mid beams so it’s less confusing for the user.
- no speakers or anywhere to plug them in, but your Apple representative will be happy to upsell you a set of air buds and chargers for each seat.
Charging port will be on the bottom and be non standard.
You can 100% just look to Tesla to see what will happen. Tesla has been following the Apple model (“but on cars”) since the beginning.
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Proprietary connectors? ✔️
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Walled garden of accessories? ✔️
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Blocking independent repairs? ✔️
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Highly integrated experience? ✔️
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Sleek and different, but not necessarily good? ✔️
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Reality Distortion Field? ✔️
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This is something that I probably won’t buy, but I’m curious to see what Apple would do with an instrument cluster.
Whatever your opinion of the business and products, it’s a hard argument to make against their tangible UI.
Disappointed to see very little in the way of actual discussion, and just a load of shitposting.
But to be fair, this is almost certainly bollocks. It was bollocks when it was first floated a decade ago, and it remains so. As much as the oft-rumoured Apple TV set was.
At best, Apple are expanding what they offer in-car, which, y’know, they’re already doing anyway.
Why would Apple want to get the car building market? It makes no sense at all.
Isn’t Apple TV a thing though? It’s been a thing for a long time.
It’s not a TV though, it’s a streaming box. If they ever do make an actual TV that’s going to be really confusing.
The other reply has covered what Apple TV is, but for context; some 15 years ago there were regular reports that Apple were about to release their own TV set.
At a glance, this isn’t too dumb; they already had a standalone monitor, and the difference between an iMac and an LCD TV isn’t huge. But give it more than a moment’s thought and you realise that it’s complete bollocks. People replace computers semi regularly because more powerful ones come along. How often do you replace your TV?
Let me guess. It’ll only operate on Apple-approved roads, can only be charged by Apple branded chargers and get bricked after 2 years when “It’s no longer supported”
See, all I can imagine is a big iPad on wheels.
Started with the pod, then made a slightly larger screen and turned it into a phone, then made it even bigger and turned it into a tablet…now make it into a car.
Thank god Balmer is no longer in charge of Microsoft or we would soon have a Microsoft car. It would look vaguely like the Apple car and have one unique feature that is so poorly implemented it is worthless.
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