What Happens If Apple Starts Making Cars

Harvard Business Review ^ | FEBRUARY 19, 2015 | Michael Schrage

[Swordmaker]

What would happen if Apple really is working on a car? Which companies would be impacted most? Harvard Business Review chimes in. — PING!

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[who_would_fardels_bear]

They will be able to charge much more and still get fanboys to buy.

[Swordmaker]

What would happen if Apple really is working on a car? Which companies would be impacted most? Harvard Business Review chimes in. — PING!

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[Swordmaker]

They will be able to charge much more and still get fanboys to buy.

Do you mean like Toyota can put fancy trim on a Corolla and call it a Lexus and get their fans to pay four times the price? Or do you mean get discriminating buyers to pay the price for quality, ecosystem, and service?

[OrangeHoof]

If cars crashed as often as computers...

Sorry, Apple. You just can’t reboot your car or download new drivers.

[BunnySlippers]

They would immediately get a hate group set up by who would fardels
bear. Cuz he’s so irritated about Apple.

[llevrok]

so if Apple’s computer was a Macintosh, would their car be Lemon ?

[doorgunner69]

Aw, come on Sword, you know that pic ought to be two guys driving together............

Just jerking yer chain..........

[Swordmaker]

If cars crashed as often as computers...

Speak for your crash prone Windows computers, OrangeHoof.

My daughter shut down my iMac to move it today. . . first time it has been down other then updates for seven years. ZERO CRASHES and been on for all of that time. Let's see. . . 61,368 minimum of continuous operation without a crash. Can you say the same? At my office we have twelve iMacs, three MacBook Airs, one MacMini Server, and a MacPro also running 24/7 for the past seven years. . . so now we have (and although some of those have been upgraded with new machines in that time) SEVENTEEN times 61,368 hours or 1,043,256 hours of continuous operation, and during that time we have experienced exactly TWO crashes. Both of which were cleared by merely restarting the computer. That is an extraordinary record. Can you say the same about your Windows PCs????

[Swordmaker]

so if Apple’s computer was a Macintosh, would their car be Lemon ?

Golden and Red Delicious Apples.

[Swordmaker]

Just jerking yer chain..........

Actually pretty funny. . .

[OneWingedShark]

Then we’ll soon see a type of driver that makes the smug from Prius drivers seem reasonable...
may God have mercy on our souls.

[Carthego delenda est]

If Apple made a car, and I had to bring it back to the dealership because it came with a faulty battery, they would not replace the faulty battery unless I paid them to replace the windshield as well.

[mrsmith]

This is ludicrous tomfoolery.

Here’s the old “if windows made a car” joke, just to even things out.
http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/windowsxp/articles/624/1/If-Microsoft-Built-Cars

[AlaskaErik]

If they made a vacuum cleaner it would be called the iSuck.

[Swordmaker]

If Apple made a car, and I had to bring it back to the dealership because it came with a faulty battery, they would not replace the faulty battery unless I paid them to replace the windshield as well.

And where has Apple given that bad of service?

[martin_fierro]

[American in Israel]

Suicidal homosexual liberals make poor inventors but are good at hype. My old android had most of the “new” i6 features a year before people stood in lines to “upgrade.

If it was not for Linux, the Apple / Mac world would have crashed and burned years ago.

[DesertRhino]

They’ll blame every wreck on the other car?