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Re:Apple Taps Bob Mansfield to Oversee Car Project by kalleboo on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @01:33AM (#12163548)
> If they proceed with the Apple Car, I would imagine it would be a disrupting concept that Apple would be uniquely prepared to handle.

That's what people thought about the Apple Watch as well, but it seems these days Apple is content with releasing products that simply complement their portfolio rather than create new markets

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Re:Apple Taps Bob Mansfield to Oversee Car Project by pgodzin on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @01:47AM (#12163591)
Evolutionary consumer electronics. The infrastructure and ecosystem they already had in place was easily adapted to manufacturing the watches. I really can't see a marginally better car ever being worth the gigantic entry cost to the market.
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