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Re:Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays l... by InitialLastName on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @08:40PM (#39112554)
Apple has enough cash on hand to purchase a major car company outright. I don't think "existing players don't let us in their sandbox" is likely to be a major hurdle.

That said, even Tesla spent ~4 years manufacturing and selling a very-low-volume hype car before they attempted to move towards the mass market (and that mass-market product has taken a decade thus far to approach Apple's reputed standard for quality).

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Re:Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays l... by jliptzin on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @09:30PM (#39112904)
No way Apple will touch a 100 year old car company with a 10 foot pole
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Re:Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays l... by freeAgent on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @09:33PM (#39112918)
Yeah, but they can buy people and everything that follows.
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Re:Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays l... by jahewson on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:58AM (#39114123)
That would be debt.
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Re:Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays l... by YetAnotherNick on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:00AM (#39114137)
Generally what happens in things like these is that the existing company would continue function as it is, just there will be a new shiny department which has maximum funding and ability to make decisions.
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