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Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Ending Decadelong Effort (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] 158 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Thank fucking god. Imagine the kind of monetization that would exist inside an Apple car. You think subscription seatwarmers are bad, and they are, but I can guarantee Apple had much worse in mind, and that most companies would simply follow suit.

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Or blaming customers for problems, "You're shifting it wrong."

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  • [+] -31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Not sure if you're aware that EVs don't "shift" or if that's an indictment to the level of idiocy that would likely be employed by Apple.

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's a reference to an actual response from Jobs when the iPhone 4(?) had a bad antenna design.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Porsche begs to differ.

    All you had to do was a basic search for what EVs have multiple gears, but you didn't.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago

    What I like is that a bunch of idiots seemed to take offense to my comment which was meant more as a joke. I do admit I wasn't aware there were EVs with gears. Though this is mainly because I won't be in the market for my next EV for hopefully years. When I was looking into it, it was largely seen as unnecessary.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Yeah I'm aware. There is mostly no reason for EVs to shift, but Toyota was trying to add a manual transmission to an EV for some reason.

    But "you're shifting it wrong" would be a scenario like the car wouldn't shift from P to D and Apple blames the driver.

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  • [+] 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    TBF This is how luxury car manufacturers sell their options. Always have been.

    Space Karen sells his false self-driving option for €7500 as a software option.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yes, but historically the purchase of an option included the physical installation of that option and its associated hardware. Not just turning on parts of the car that are already in it, after you bought it.

    To be clear, I don't think anyone is arguing that options should not cost money. We're arguing against A) recurring subscriptions, and B) paying more money to activate features already built into the car you already bought.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    "Base model is this, but if you want seat heaters that's another $8,000$10,000, if you want lane assist, that's another $5,000 $25,000 and requires a 512GB storage bump for $2,000"

    Ftfy to more realistic numbers

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They would come up with a charging port that only existed in the parking lot of Apple stores

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  • [+] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Deserves a shoop

    alt-text: actual Apple Mouse charging via its bottom port

    (Interesting, this guy says it gains hours of charge in three minutes, and thinks Apple knew some would leave it plugged it at all times. Intentional sure but not exactly “brilliant”.)

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Genuinely, this is the best news I've heard in a while for the reasons you listed. Apple is already fucking up the phone industry with anti-consumer policies that become industry trends. I shudder to imagine how deeply and irrepairably they would have fucked up the car market for consumers.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Up to a certain point only. In most places you cannot hope to be able to sell a car that has not a minimum set of features mandated by the law.

    And Apple cannot hope to compel states to change the rules just because so they can sell their car.

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