what I’m trying to convey is that it’s not linear. the have a teaser size for cheap and then what you need is a LOT more.
Apple is poaching auto engineers to build battery division, lawsuit claims
Around June 2014, Apple began aggressively poaching A123 engineers tasked with leading some of the company’s most critical projects, the lawsuit claims. The engineers left to pursue similar programs at Apple in violation of their employment agreements, A123 said in a filing earlier this month in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts.
“Apple is currently developing a large-scale battery division to compete in the very same field as A123,” the lawsuit read.
“very same field” = automotive batteries… hum…
I really hope they end up getting into this market. Not because I would want an Apple car, but because the competition will likely yield huge strides in EV technology making it more affordable for everyone.
yeah that battery thing doesnt seem to totally relate to making a car… it’s just batteries… but there is so much speculation about this these past few weeks.
mind you, people have been talking about an apple television for years as well and that hasnt come out. probably because the TV market is saturated and there is no room for a high margin product. it would just drag margins down… sort of like automotive manufacturing.
A handful of highlights include Robert Gough formerly of Autoliv that works on everything from airbags to seatbelt and radar systems. There’s David Nelson from Tesla, who worked on electric motor and gearboxes. A few other new hires have transmission and drivetrain experience, while David Perner, formerly of Ford, worked on the automakers hybrids, and Jim Cuseo, an Apple employee since 2010, held down a gig at Ford as an R&D engineer after a stint at MagCanica working on electromechanical torque sensing systems. And of course there’s the people Apple snatched up from A123 Systems, and the resulting lawsuit.
Has Apple dropped the ball on anything since 1997ish?
The Apple ROKR
G4 Cube
That really puts things into perspective
Apple has deep enough pockets to assemble the best team of people in the world should be interesting whatever it is
Like I said post 98 that came out in 93 and ended in 98
Newtons…hahaha. If you consider that era of PDA they were about equal to the other clunky shit that was out back then. One could even argue that Apple helped nudge the PDA market.
apple wants to start producing cars by 2020:
Tesla CEO Elon Musk told Bloomberg Businessweek this month that Apple was seeking to hire away his workers, offering $250,000 signing bonuses and 60 percent salary increases.
I just want flying cars and hovering shit like in the movies, if they release a car with a robot that sounds like my GPS and uses Apple Maps I’m going to be pissed.
Bump:
In recent years, Apple sought partnerships with the luxury carmakers BMW and Mercedes-Benz to develop an all-electric self-driving vehicle, according to five people familiar with the negotiations who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. But on-again, off-again talks with those companies have ended after each rebuffed Apple’s requirements to hand over control of the data and design, some of the people said. Late last year, Apple found that partner in Volkswagen. Buffeted by a scandal around cheating emissions tests — and lagging some rivals in development of self-driving cars — Volkswagen jumped at the chance to work with Apple, former Apple employees said. Volkswagen’s code-name at Apple is Jetstream, one of them said.
Bump. If something has no steering wheel, can it still be called a car?
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Even in that futuristic movie irobot where self driving cars were pretty much perfected Will Smith had a manual override option that gave him a steering wheel.
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