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For a time, the company was rumored to be working on something small based on BMW’s i3. Then it was said to actually be a van. With augmented reality, a new kind of battery and smart seat belts.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Reports suggested a desire to leapfrog Tesla and go straight to full self-driving — and it was granted permission to test its technology on California roads. It was looking at building charging infrastructure. So insatiable was the appetite for any news on the car, Apple watchers had started to pay attention to the kinds of vehicles bought by Apple executives to see whether there were any signs as to their tastes and the project’s probable direction.</p><p>My favorite report of all was that Apple had looked into a deal with the legendary motor group McLaren, signaling the Apple car might one day be a true supercar. A <em>British </em>one, no less. I could just picture it making its debut in a Bond movie: a tuxedoed Daniel Craig flirting with Siri to open the door to let him out.</p><p>Alas, we’ll never know what could have been. Apple’s decision to scrap its car project, according to reporting from Bloomberg News’ Mark Gurman, brings everyone’s favorite Silicon Valley rumor to an anti-climatic but sadly predictable end. Apple’s presence on our roads will remain limited to CarPlay, its in-car software. Some of the company’s 2,000 workers on the project — named Titan — will be reassigned to work on artificial intelligence, Gurman wrote. Others will have to apply for other positions; some will be laid off.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">In this era of cost-cutting across the tech business, the Apple Car was a distraction that could no longer be justified, not when the needs of AI must take priority, with Apple seen as a laggard. Indeed, that Apple should bother making a car was always a difficult sell at the best of times. The large margins it enjoys on its hardware could not possibly be replicated, and the ordeal of putting a vehicle into production would have daunted even Tim Cook, for whom complex supply chains are a speciality. The initial struggles of Tesla, and costly abandonments of other car projects, such as Dyson’s, would have always been front of mind — and slowing growth in the sector made pushing ahead an even bigger risk.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Indecision over the road the Apple Car should have taken seemed to be at the root of its problems. Leadership changes were frequent. Big-name former Tesla executive Doug Field joined Apple only to leave for Ford three years later. Project Titan was a project troubled — an unkind take is that the company has thrown billions of dollars down the drain through mismanagement and a lack of clear vision. Then again, Apple’s share price would rise handsomely whenever there was even a slither of news about the car’s existence — and it wouldn’t fall back when those rumors failed to materialize. Details of the project’s cancellation barely moved the company’s stock when reported on Tuesday.</p><p>Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives supported Apple's decision.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">"Softer demand for EVs and competition fierce," he said in an email. "EVs a different landscape from a few years ago. Apple saw writing on the wall."</p><p>Wedbush's Ives added: "On one hand this is a modest disappointment as the view within Cupertino was that with roughly 2,000 employees on this initiative that an Apple Car was still on the medium term horizon. 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For a time, the company was rumored to be working on something small based on BMW’s i3. Then it was said to actually be a van. With augmented reality, a new kind of battery and smart seat belts.Reports suggested a desire to leapfrog Tesla and go straight to full self-driving — and it was granted permission to test its technology on California roads. It was looking at building charging infrastructure. So insatiable was the appetite for any news on the car, Apple watchers had started to pay attention to the kinds of vehicles bought by Apple executives to see whether there were any signs as to their tastes and the project’s probable direction.My favorite report of all was that Apple had looked into a deal with the legendary motor group McLaren, signaling the Apple car might one day be a true supercar. A British one, no less. I could just picture it making its debut in a Bond movie: a tuxedoed Daniel Craig flirting with Siri to open the door to let him out.Alas, we’ll never know what could have been. Apple’s decision to scrap its car project, according to reporting from Bloomberg News’ Mark Gurman, brings everyone’s favorite Silicon Valley rumor to an anti-climatic but sadly predictable end. Apple’s presence on our roads will remain limited to CarPlay, its in-car software. Some of the company’s 2,000 workers on the project — named Titan — will be reassigned to work on artificial intelligence, Gurman wrote. Others will have to apply for other positions; some will be laid off.In this era of cost-cutting across the tech business, the Apple Car was a distraction that could no longer be justified, not when the needs of AI must take priority, with Apple seen as a laggard. Indeed, that Apple should bother making a car was always a difficult sell at the best of times. The large margins it enjoys on its hardware could not possibly be replicated, and the ordeal of putting a vehicle into production would have daunted even Tim Cook, for whom complex supply chains are a speciality. The initial struggles of Tesla, and costly abandonments of other car projects, such as Dyson’s, would have always been front of mind — and slowing growth in the sector made pushing ahead an even bigger risk.Indecision over the road the Apple Car should have taken seemed to be at the root of its problems. Leadership changes were frequent. Big-name former Tesla executive Doug Field joined Apple only to leave for Ford three years later. Project Titan was a project troubled — an unkind take is that the company has thrown billions of dollars down the drain through mismanagement and a lack of clear vision. Then again, Apple’s share price would rise handsomely whenever there was even a slither of news about the car’s existence — and it wouldn’t fall back when those rumors failed to materialize. Details of the project’s cancellation barely moved the company’s stock when reported on Tuesday.Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives supported Apple's decision.\"Softer demand for EVs and competition fierce,\" he said in an email. \"EVs a different landscape from a few years ago. Apple saw writing on the wall.\"Wedbush's Ives added: \"On one hand this is a modest disappointment as the view within Cupertino was that with roughly 2,000 employees on this initiative that an Apple Car was still on the medium term horizon. On the other hand, the laser focus within Apple is ramping up and executing a broad AI strategy within the Apple ecosystem as it appears the vast majority of these engineers and developers will now focus their efforts on AI.\"Despite today’s news, there will always be, I suspect, rumors of an Apple Car being worked on somewhere in the bowels of Cupertino or some mystery location. Hazy details will be spoken about the same way we speculate about specimens at Area 51, or the whereabouts of Lord Lucan. But any expectations that something would hit the road before the end of this decade have now been dashed. 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I could just picture it making its debut in a Bond movie: a tuxedoed Daniel Craig flirting with Siri to open the door to let him out.</p><p>Alas, we’ll never know what could have been. Apple’s decision to scrap its car project, according to reporting from Bloomberg News’ Mark Gurman, brings everyone’s favorite Silicon Valley rumor to an anti-climatic but sadly predictable end. Apple’s presence on our roads will remain limited to CarPlay, its in-car software. Some of the company’s 2,000 workers on the project — named Titan — will be reassigned to work on artificial intelligence, Gurman wrote. Others will have to apply for other positions; some will be laid off.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">In this era of cost-cutting across the tech business, the Apple Car was a distraction that could no longer be justified, not when the needs of AI must take priority, with Apple seen as a laggard. Indeed, that Apple should bother making a car was always a difficult sell at the best of times. The large margins it enjoys on its hardware could not possibly be replicated, and the ordeal of putting a vehicle into production would have daunted even Tim Cook, for whom complex supply chains are a speciality. The initial struggles of Tesla, and costly abandonments of other car projects, such as Dyson’s, would have always been front of mind — and slowing growth in the sector made pushing ahead an even bigger risk.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Indecision over the road the Apple Car should have taken seemed to be at the root of its problems. Leadership changes were frequent. Big-name former Tesla executive Doug Field joined Apple only to leave for Ford three years later. Project Titan was a project troubled — an unkind take is that the company has thrown billions of dollars down the drain through mismanagement and a lack of clear vision. Then again, Apple’s share price would rise handsomely whenever there was even a slither of news about the car’s existence — and it wouldn’t fall back when those rumors failed to materialize. Details of the project’s cancellation barely moved the company’s stock when reported on Tuesday.</p><p>Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives supported Apple's decision.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">"Softer demand for EVs and competition fierce," he said in an email. "EVs a different landscape from a few years ago. Apple saw writing on the wall."</p><p>Wedbush's Ives added: "On one hand this is a modest disappointment as the view within Cupertino was that with roughly 2,000 employees on this initiative that an Apple Car was still on the medium term horizon. On the other hand, the laser focus within Apple is ramping up and executing a broad AI strategy within the Apple ecosystem as it appears the vast majority of these engineers and developers will now focus their efforts on AI."</p><p>Despite today’s news, there will always be, I suspect, rumors of an Apple Car being worked on somewhere in the bowels of Cupertino or some mystery location. Hazy details will be spoken about the same way we speculate about specimens at Area 51, or the whereabouts of Lord Lucan. But any expectations that something would hit the road before the end of this decade have now been dashed. The Apple Car, sadly, is canceled.</p></body></html>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>So Long, Apple Car, We’ll Never Know What We Missed</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nSo Long, Apple Car, We’ll Never Know What We Missed\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2024-02-28 16:00 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-27/so-long-apple-car-we-ll-never-know-what-we-missed?srnd=homepage-asia><strong>Bloomberg</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>The tech giant’s decision to scrap its auto project brings everyone’s favorite Silicon Valley rumor to an anti-climatic but sadly predictable end.Apple’s presence on the road will remain limited to ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-27/so-long-apple-car-we-ll-never-know-what-we-missed?srnd=homepage-asia\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-27/so-long-apple-car-we-ll-never-know-what-we-missed?srnd=homepage-asia","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1152135888","content_text":"The tech giant’s decision to scrap its auto project brings everyone’s favorite Silicon Valley rumor to an anti-climatic but sadly predictable end.Apple’s presence on the road will remain limited to CarPlay, its in-car software.What could Apple have done with the humble automobile?Ideas, some credible and others less so, have dripped out for a decade. For a time, the company was rumored to be working on something small based on BMW’s i3. Then it was said to actually be a van. With augmented reality, a new kind of battery and smart seat belts.Reports suggested a desire to leapfrog Tesla and go straight to full self-driving — and it was granted permission to test its technology on California roads. It was looking at building charging infrastructure. So insatiable was the appetite for any news on the car, Apple watchers had started to pay attention to the kinds of vehicles bought by Apple executives to see whether there were any signs as to their tastes and the project’s probable direction.My favorite report of all was that Apple had looked into a deal with the legendary motor group McLaren, signaling the Apple car might one day be a true supercar. A British one, no less. I could just picture it making its debut in a Bond movie: a tuxedoed Daniel Craig flirting with Siri to open the door to let him out.Alas, we’ll never know what could have been. Apple’s decision to scrap its car project, according to reporting from Bloomberg News’ Mark Gurman, brings everyone’s favorite Silicon Valley rumor to an anti-climatic but sadly predictable end. Apple’s presence on our roads will remain limited to CarPlay, its in-car software. Some of the company’s 2,000 workers on the project — named Titan — will be reassigned to work on artificial intelligence, Gurman wrote. Others will have to apply for other positions; some will be laid off.In this era of cost-cutting across the tech business, the Apple Car was a distraction that could no longer be justified, not when the needs of AI must take priority, with Apple seen as a laggard. Indeed, that Apple should bother making a car was always a difficult sell at the best of times. The large margins it enjoys on its hardware could not possibly be replicated, and the ordeal of putting a vehicle into production would have daunted even Tim Cook, for whom complex supply chains are a speciality. The initial struggles of Tesla, and costly abandonments of other car projects, such as Dyson’s, would have always been front of mind — and slowing growth in the sector made pushing ahead an even bigger risk.Indecision over the road the Apple Car should have taken seemed to be at the root of its problems. Leadership changes were frequent. Big-name former Tesla executive Doug Field joined Apple only to leave for Ford three years later. Project Titan was a project troubled — an unkind take is that the company has thrown billions of dollars down the drain through mismanagement and a lack of clear vision. Then again, Apple’s share price would rise handsomely whenever there was even a slither of news about the car’s existence — and it wouldn’t fall back when those rumors failed to materialize. Details of the project’s cancellation barely moved the company’s stock when reported on Tuesday.Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives supported Apple's decision.\"Softer demand for EVs and competition fierce,\" he said in an email. \"EVs a different landscape from a few years ago. Apple saw writing on the wall.\"Wedbush's Ives added: \"On one hand this is a modest disappointment as the view within Cupertino was that with roughly 2,000 employees on this initiative that an Apple Car was still on the medium term horizon. On the other hand, the laser focus within Apple is ramping up and executing a broad AI strategy within the Apple ecosystem as it appears the vast majority of these engineers and developers will now focus their efforts on AI.\"Despite today’s news, there will always be, I suspect, rumors of an Apple Car being worked on somewhere in the bowels of Cupertino or some mystery location. Hazy details will be spoken about the same way we speculate about specimens at Area 51, or the whereabouts of Lord Lucan. But any expectations that something would hit the road before the end of this decade have now been dashed. The Apple Car, sadly, is canceled.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":84,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}
