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Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car

posted by CoolHand on Tuesday October 18 2016, @05:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the can't-make-cars-from-fruit dept.

"exec" writes:

http://jalopnik.com/apple-gives-up-on-building-its-own-car-because-the-enti-1787875242

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1st Gear: The Apple Car Is No More

Building cars is hard. Tesla knows that. Google learned it the hard way too. And the latest tech giant to discover limits to its car-building ambitions is Apple, which according to Bloomberg , has given up on making its own car.

Granted, I've always thought that Apple's ultimate aim was to develop software or technology it could use to partner with existing automakers, rather than its own vehicle, but now that definitely seems to be the case. Now Apple is focused on creating autonomous systems for other companies.

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  • (Score: 2) by Webweasel on Wednesday October 19 2016, @10:03AM

    by Webweasel (567) on Wednesday October 19 2016, @10:03AM (#416076) Homepage Journal

    He's referring to the southpark episode where the residents are smug from buying the Toyota Prius.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smug_Alert! [wikipedia.org]

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