Re:Apple tried to buy Tesla for more than it’s currently wor...
by rchaud on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:32PM
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> You can read what Palm, and Blackberry have said during the iPhone revolution era. And we all know how that turns out.
The majority of comments made pooh-poohing the iPhone were made at public events, and intended to assuage the customers, carriers and partners present that those events. It's not reflective of what they actually believed.
In books like "Losing the Signal" (about Blackberry), journalists followed up with Blackberry execs and discovered that BB considered the iPhone a gamechanger, even if they doubted that the AT&T 3G network could handle millions of data-hungry iPhones. And in the early days, that was true. The first 3 generations of iPhones had significant complaints about dropped calls.
Your Phone isn't really a phone anymore. When was the last time you actually make or receive a call on it? Vs doing something else, Gaming, Content Consumption, Taking Photos etc. Despite using the name Smartphone, your iPhone is more like a Pocket Computer, or what Apple envision Newton in the 90s. A pocket computer that can also make a call when it needs to.
It is the same with Cars, AV ( autonomous vehicle ) will be nothing but a massive Computer with Batteries running on Wheels. Having said that, I think we now know Full AV isn't coming any time soon, at least not in the next 3 - 4 years. But there will be lots of R&D between now and then. Apple had lots of pieces of iPhone tech even before they started, and they still need 4 years to make it work. The Apple Car, or Project Titan will likely take a lot more time .