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Apple Reportedly Teams With Kia to Produce Apple Car

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday February 04 2021, @02:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the control-with-a-macbook-wheel dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:

Apple Reportedly Teams With Kia to Produce Apple Car:

Apple is investing about $3.6 billion in a car partnership with Kia Motors, according to a report out of South Korea.

[...] Apple will set up production with Kia and build Apple cars at the company's facility in Georgia, Korean newspaper DongA Ilbo reported, though the report did not cite sources for the information, Bloomberg reported.

The newspaper also said that the two companies could sign a deal on Feb. 17 and are planning to introduce Apple cars in 2024, with an initial target to produce 100,000 vehicles a year.

Last month, South Korean automaker Hyundai, an affiliate of Kia's, announced it was in preliminary talks with Apple on developing a self-driving car, before quickly backing away from the statement and saying it has received requests from a number of technology suitors to develop autonomous electric vehicles.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 04 2021, @09:18PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 04 2021, @09:18PM (#1109062)

    I don't know why you are picking on iPhones for the battery wearing out.
    That happens to LITERALLY ANY DEVICE that uses a battery. Now, wouldn't it be nice to be able to open your phone to replace the battery, since it is a consumable item? It damn sure would, but name me a phone manufacturer that designs the phone to be opened. They just are not built that way anymore.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday February 05 2021, @04:16AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) on Friday February 05 2021, @04:16AM (#1109178) Journal

    I don't know why you are picking on iPhones for the battery wearing out.

    While it is true that most of the phones (if not all) come with non-replaceable batteries, I don't know if you notice that TFA establishes an Apple context.
    Do I need to justify my choice more than that or d'ya 'ave the answer to your question?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 05 2021, @10:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 05 2021, @10:10PM (#1109432)

      I have personal experience with the Apple battery issue you mentioned.
      Apple applied a patch to old iPhones that slowed operation somewhat to protect old batteries (prevent system shutdown when the old battery couldn't keep up), according to Apple. This sounds purely like a move by Apple to make your device obsolete and encourage you to buy a new one. I'll tell you how it worked in practice: I had a several year old iPhone. The slow down feature was backed out. What I had to do to prevent occasional system shutdown (it happened) with my very old battery was to enable the OS setting to throttle performance to favor the battery. Apple was technically right in the action they took, but they should have advertised it or added a manual setting the first time. They like things simple for the user, so it's not the option they took. The battery problem was real, as I verified.