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A couple months ago I was contacted by a recruiter from Apple on LinkedIn. He claimed my skillset was a great match for some new thing they were doing but wouldn't explain. I thought WTH, I'd been doing EVs for the last 6 years and non-EVs for longer than that. Maybe they need to get some official vague news out so they can actually hire the people they need?
In the 1910's Ford revolutionized operations management and it dominated the automotive industry. In the 1960's Toyota revolutionized operations management and it dominated the automotive industry. In the 2010's Apple revolutionized operations management and ...
No log in. It was nice while it lasted, for 1-2 phrases though.
A couple months ago I was contacted by a recruiter from Apple on LinkedIn. He claimed my skillset was a great match for some new thing they were doing but wouldn't explain. I thought WTH, I'd been doing EVs for the last 6 years and non-EVs for longer than that. Maybe they need to get some official vague news out so they can actually hire the people they need?
What's an EV? How do you know they don't want an EV specialist?
On one hand, Apple is clearly not in their wheelhouse when it comes to vehicles - even Google has more experience than them. On the other hand, I would kill for an electric (or even hybrid) minivan. The Model-S with 2 extra seats just isn't enough room. On the gripping hand, look at how Apple played the industry and pundits on sapphire. Where is WSJ getting their info - they didn't even describe their sources.
They weren't in their wheelhouse when they went into phones, either.
"Apple would be looking to make such an enormous leap from its core competency — building great consumer electronics". Don't electric cars fall into the category of consumer electronics?
I think if Apple is working on a car, it's going to be a mass-consumer competitor to Tesla, not anything to do with self-driving.
I tried to make this point a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8962872 Basically, Apple, Google, and Microsoft have so much money, they could take on a huge problem and "invent" the future.
In the 1910's Ford revolutionized operations management and it dominated the automotive industry. In the 1960's Toyota revolutionized operations management and it dominated the automotive industry. In the 2010's Apple revolutionized operations management and ...
Toyota never dominated anything.
For example…
"Introduced in 1966, the [Toyota] Corolla managed to become the best-selling car worldwide by 1974 and has been one of the best-selling cars in the world since then." [2]
I'm a little miffed that people don't express more skepticism about self-driving cars on tech sites. Given what I know about AI research and the technical limitations of LIDAR etc., I find it unlikely that fully self-driving cars will be available at any scale in our lifetimes — if at all. I wish people wouldn't talk about them like they're already de facto the future of transport. I think if Apple is working on a ca…
I'm with you on predicting that if Apple is getting into it, it will be non-autonomous, but I'm curious as to how you have reached your other incredulous conclusion.