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AudioGuy writes:
"Adrian Perica is a very busy man. Over the past 18 months, the mergers and acquisitions chief at Apple has been scouring the globe looking for deals, snatching up everything from search engines and data analytics to mapping software and motion tracking chips.
A source tells The Chronicle that Perica met with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Cupertino last spring at around the same time analysts suggested Apple acquire the electric car giant.
The newspaper has also learned that Apple is heavily exploring medical devices, specifically sensor technology that can help predict heart attacks. Led by Tomlinson Holman, a renowned audio engineer who invented THX and 10.2 surround sound, Apple is exploring ways to predict heart attacks by studying the sound blood makes at it flows through arteries.
Taken together, Apple's potential forays into automobiles and medical devices, two industries worlds away from consumer electronics, underscore the company's deep desire to move away from iPhones and iPads and take big risks.
Good grief. Is the 'iTesla next in the 'i' line?"
(Score: 5, Funny) by osiguru on Wednesday February 19 2014, @07:50PM
I'd bet that they will only come in ultra-cool-sounding sub-arctic-unobtanium-oxide-gloss white, and the windshield glass will self destruct in a dust storm. When the interior wet, the interior will change colors. From white to red.
Egads!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Dopefish on Wednesday February 19 2014, @07:58PM
I also bet the AppleCare warranty won't be cheap by any means.
(Score: 3, Funny) by osiguru on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:01PM
Yeah, an Applecare warranty will be rotten to the core for those 1stgeneration iCars.
And the salespersons will likely be seedy characters too. The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.
One bad apple...
*ahem, probably should just stop here*
(Score: 4, Informative) by tbuddy on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:02PM
You don't need a warranty with Apple products. You buy new every time there is a new release.
(Score: 1) by LAngeOliver on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:04PM
Can't wait to get my first refurbished electric car with a slightly used engine, a new battery and a new exterior body.
Decode your health [biogeniq.ca]
(Score: 5, Funny) by snick on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:04PM
The non-removable batteries are going to really drive turnover.
(Score: 3, Funny) by gull on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:46PM
"you're driving it wrong" - s. jobs
(Score: 5, Funny) by martyb on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:57PM
osiguru (1148) wrote:
Yes, but when the first iCar catches fire, will people start calling it the iCarus [wikipedia.org]?
Wit is intellect, dancing. I'm too old to act my age. Life is too important to take myself seriously.
(Score: 1) by osiguru on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:49PM
Touche!
But will it be branded like the good ol' Pontiac iFirebird?
(Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:44AM
*eyeroll* *groan*
But that's what you wanted isn't it?
(Score: 3, Funny) by lajos on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:14PM
"the windshield glass will self destruct in a dust storm"
Nah. You'll just have to stick them in one of those ugly plastic protective cases.