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Apple lovers would mortgage their home just to be on the waiting list.
The charge port is on the bottom.
Acceleration and brake pedals are butterfly
Door close sensors have to be calibrated upon replacement by a proprietary tool not made available to the public
EU forces USB-C charger on it because the board computer is technically a smartphone.
Locks you out if it detects an Android device on you or any of your passengers.
*write that down, write that down!
Charging port will be on the bottom and be non standard.
You'll have to flip your car to charge it lol.
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 agree mostly but Tesla doesn't have proprietary connectors anymore and the US is actually in the process of adopting the Tesla connector (NACS) as the new standard.
Tesla tried to make it a standard before CCS (the current standard) existed and it was refused in favor of a much worse one.
They also don't have a "walled garden of accessories" and if you look around you'll find a massive market of 3rd party accessories.
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.
I was referring to the chargers (home and other)
The chargers are not proprietary either. That's kinda the point of the switch to NACS. Home chargers have always worked with J1772 vehicles with a simple adapter. Superchargers are slowly being made available to all vehicles.
In other news, Apple is now using using USB-C. These may or may not be related.
Not at all related. Apple was forced by the EU. Tesla, I'm not really sure why they suddenly decided to open it but there is another OEM that was already using NACS connectors in their prototypes (before NACS was a thing) and they organized a change.org petition to open it that received around 44k signatures 4 months prior. That is my best guess.
I personally think that Tesla plan is to forcefully change the IRA bill that mandate CCS connector on all federally funded charging station.
With this bill, Tesla could lose their charging network advantage in the medium term, or even worse, be burdened by an obsolete "non-standard" in the long term.
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
I meant like their tactile hardware, specifically. They make things that feel dialed in and designed for intuitive use, aesthetics, and quality feel. Considering car manufacturers have been big fans molded plastic with sharp unbeveled edges for the past 20 years with uncomfortable interiors, I’m curious what they would come up with instead.
I don’t do much under the hood work with my computers though and I’ve heard that they sacrifice a lot of that versatility to make users of all experience levels pretty intuitive, so I can imagine that would be frustrating for someone working on them. So I think I get what you’re saying.
I'm sorry, but nothing with Apple is intuitive to me, and I have no idea how people work with their hardware or software.
Car manufacturers are focusing on keeping the price low, and they used to focus a lot on safety, both inside and outside the car. So let us see where this one goes.
Just so long as Microsoft stays out of the car game I’m happy.
You and me both
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 has been phenomenal at supporting its older devices, much longer than most Android manufacturers.
Which is completely meaningless when you can't actually repair failed hardware.
The standard for Androids is still 2 years, so when it comes to long term device support, the point undeniably goes to Apple.
What "standard" are you referring to? Both Samsung and Google have committed to 7 years at this point.
Both Samsung and Google have committed to 7 years at this point.
Only on certain models.
Apple users are getting settlement checks starting this month because Apple lost its lawsuit over intentionally throttling previous model phones with their "updates"
That's what moved me off the Apple ecosystem. Can't use any of my apps unless I update my phone, every update made my phone continually slower.
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.
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life span
I just got told today when going to the library to ask for an Apple device for Xcode to specifically request one of the brand new laptops because the full size Macs are outdated.
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.
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.
