Bloomberg: Apple targets 2028 release date for its own electric vehicle

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Project Titan, the Apple electric car project, has been underway since 2015. But the project has faced numerous delays and...

Bloomberg: Apple targets 2028 release date for its own electric vehicle::Project Titan, the Apple electric car project, has been underway since 2015. But the project has faced numerous delays and...

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Charging port will be on the bottom and be non standard.
- You'll have to flip your car to charge it lol.
- I know this is all android nerds commenting on something they don’t care about for some reason but my guess would be that by then we’ll just be driving over a pad in our garages and not have to touch anything.
  
  Wireless charging for a car would be a terrible idea(possible exceptions for specific cases eg. charging while driving). Wireless charging is inefficient which doesn't matter that much for a small battery like a phone's but for a car's it certainly would.
  
  Yeah we said proprietary charger.
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.
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.
  
  Apple users are getting settlement checks starting this month because Apple lost its lawsuit over intentionally throttling previous model phones with their "updates"
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  My fusion drive iMac was rendered unusable by an OS update that was optimized for SSD and put any hard drive Mac to a crawl.
  
  I had to change to a SSD, which was very fun because I had to unglue the screen and glue it back when I was done.
- And it will cost at least 10M.
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
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.
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.
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.

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