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Actually, it was Cingular, which got purchased by ATT (I think)
Actually, it was the other way around. Cingular bought AT&T Wireless, which was _not_ part of the original AT&T at the time. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Wireless_Services
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I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone accuse anything Apple made of being garish.
Behold, the Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power iMacs! https://www.cultofmac.com/468313/flower-power-blue-dalmatian...
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so not many people think they're that attractive Do most people buy a laptop based mainly on appearance? I always thought that most people buy a Windows laptop because that's what they need for work/school (or what they are most familiar with from work/school).
Many of my friends think most windows laptops look garish
I know somebody on the project. The cancellation makes sense, they were years from release and every new VP pivoted the project and lost progress. If they had committed to their original project (a bus) or the first revision (a very high-end car) they could have released on a timely schedule. But they're far too late to the game.
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I am incredibly jealous of you guys living in a place where you just bump into random people at coffeeshops that happen to work on incredibly interesting things. The density of talent must be amazing.
These people are everywhere. Most are not stupid enough to yell about it in public.
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Yeah, when you’re broke. The average American is struggling to pay for food, an electric car is the last thing on their minds.
The average American is not struggling to pay for food.
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From the other side, phone and home electronics producer Xiaomi invested few billions into car business and now is producing car similar to Porsche. Why you think Apple can't do the same if focused?
Xiaomi is better at being the New Apple than Apple is. Apple should be selling micro transportation appliances that fit into a higher urbanized environment. Extremely small cars would be the largest thing I would rent .
Xiaomi bought Segway (Ninebot) and released tons of e-bikes, e-scooters and even an electric gokart.
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has anyone cared about net income in decades? maybe it's about signaling to investors, "we have 100s of people working on [emergent technology]"
> has anyone cared about net income in decades? Uh, you mean net income also known as "net profit"? So your question is effectively "has anyone cared about profit in decades?" Well... yes
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Yeah but a cell phone and a computer are close cousins. A car and a cell phone, or anything Apple has yet made, are wildly different. They may as well have had a battle tank program, or started making airplanes. Those things have screens and "infotainment systems" too.
> Yeah but a cell phone and a computer are close cousins. Were they really close cousins in 2006?
Cars are wildly different, 50 years ago GE would have seemed like the one that would make a phone, not ford.