Apple Car Cancelled!!!
Well, I for one am disappointed. I would have loved to see how this turned out. Truthfully I think Jony Ive would have had a very unique take on an Apple Car had he not left.
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Apple Car 2028?
More speculation from Bloomberg on when and if Project Titan will ever materialize into an actual shipping Apple Car. Truthfully I fully believe Apple can make a go of this. Kevin Lynch rumored to be in charge of Project Titan obviously knows how to ship a product. A car on the other hand obviously has significantly more moving parts than an Apple Watch. But if the rumors are correct and they have been actually working on this since around the 2015/16 timeframe, I don’t see why it’s not possible. The more grandiose plans off a fully autonomous self driving car having been scaled back(again this is all complete speculation) into something more akin to a Tesla. It’s not only possible but extremely likely. Seems to me Jony Ive would have had plenty to contribute to this. Who knows maybe he will. Only time will tell.
Trouble With AppleCar???
Ok, let me preface this by saying I NEVER believe these types of sensational BS that is pretty much a regular occurence in the Apple media. Usually its a disgruntled ex-employee or just plain FUD. I feel this is a little bit of both mixed in with a hefty amount of speculation. So in other words its ninety percent made up. Apple is usually locked down except on the occasional supply chain break down associated with the iPhone(ok its every year, I get it. But Im not sure if that’s not a little planned and the iPhone is still a big deal). My main issue is the part where Tim Cook is mostly hands off and “rarely visits” the off site Project Titan team. REALLY? A multi-billion dollar project that has been rumored for years and he is just letting them spend all that money without showing is face. I think its fare to say that Tim is not that kind of CEO. Plus I think the project is in the very capable hands of Kevin Lynch(also rumor), who got the Apple Watch out the door. John Giannandrea SVP of Machine Learning and AI Strategy was rumored to be running the show and I think he still is with Kevin Lynch reporting to him in some capacity.
When Jony Ive left apple to create his own design house called Love From with Apple becoming one of his main clients, the speculation was Jony was out and that was that. I never believed that. I tend to take Apple at face value(they are not prone to lying) especially when they said that very statement word for word. Jony is a resource and will always be for Apple. Anything other than that is pure nonsense. I have always believed Jony was and is designing the car.
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