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Bloomberg: Apple targets 2028 release date for its own electric vehicle

Bloomberg: Apple targets 2028 release date for its own electric vehicle - 9to5Mac

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...

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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.
  
  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.
- all windows are opaque, you need apple vision pro to see out.
  
  *write that down, write that down!
- 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'll have to flip your car to charge it lol.
- I know this is all android nerds commenting on something they don’t care about for some reason but my guess would be that by then we’ll just be driving over a pad in our garages and not have to touch anything.
  
  Wireless charging for a car would be a terrible idea(possible exceptions for specific cases eg. charging while driving). Wireless charging is inefficient which doesn't matter that much for a small battery like a phone's but for a car's it certainly would.
  
  Yeah we said proprietary charger.
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.
Proprietary connectors? ✔️
Walled garden of accessories? ✔️
Blocking independent repairs? ✔️
Highly integrated experience? ✔️
Sleek and different, but not necessarily good? ✔️
Reality Distortion Field? ✔️
- Well, at least the upcoming Apple car will have perfect panel alignments.
  
  You hope.
- I was referring to the chargers (home and other). I know there's a rich history, but I also know that it wasn't being released free and clear when CCS was being developed.
  I acknowledge that they are now releasing NACS to the public. In other news, Apple is now using using USB-C. These may or may not be related.
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.
  
  I'm the outsider, I hate their UIs. Anytime I have to solve any issue on an Apple device, I want to give up.
  At least Macs have terminal, but iPads are way out of my comfort zone
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?
- Happens on mostly every apple post. Super cringe.
My predictions:
It will be the best looking car ever.
It will have the best user interface both in terms of usability and look and feel.
It will have the most advanced autonomous driving.
It will be expensive.
It won't support Android Auto.
Samsung and Xiaomi will copy it.
- You should have written ["best"] not [best]
- I believe that Xiaomi has already introduced a car now, actually.
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"
- Look, I dislike Apple's walled-garden as much as the next guy, but let's give credit where it's due. Apple has been phenomenal at supporting its older devices, much longer than most Android manufacturers. The iPhone 7 only recently stopped getting updates, and it was from 2016. The standard for Androids is still 2 years, so when it comes to long term device support, the point undeniably goes to Apple.
  
  Apple users are getting settlement checks starting this month because Apple lost its lawsuit over intentionally throttling previous model phones with their "updates"
  
  Indeed. As much as I love shitting on Apple, the lifespan of their phones is one of only two things that has made me ever consider an iPhone. They're great on that.
  
  I bought a 2014 Mac Mini for $60 a couple months ago. It still runs just fine, and literally yesterday it got a new security update. That's ten years of support.
  People can make fun of Apple for myriad things, but not supporting their devices is not one of them.
  
  My fusion drive iMac was rendered unusable by an OS update that was optimized for SSD and put any hard drive Mac to a crawl.
  I had to change to a SSD, which was very fun because I had to unglue the screen and glue it back when I was done.
- And it will cost at least 10M.
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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