A Vehicle is on Apple's Official Product List —
In Switzerland — Ping!
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Posted on 03/02/2015 4:40:31 PM PST by Swordmaker
Apple has officially added vehicles to the corporate documents describing the company’s activities, at least in Switzerland. The company’s lawyers added the following paragraph, reports Swiss site ApfelBlog.
Vehicles; Apparatus for locomotion by land, air or water; electronic hardware components for motor vehicles, rail cars and locomotives, ships and aircraft; Anti-theft devices; Theft alarms for vehicles; Bicycles; Golf carts; Wheelchairs; Air pumps; Motorcycles; Aftermarket parts (after-market parts) and accessories for the aforesaid goods.
It’s common to add catch-all terminology to company activities, so nothing should be read into the inclusion of ships and aircraft, though we’re sure there will be a breathless headline somewhere soon about an Apple plane …
The scale of automotive hires by Apple makes it clear that Apple is serious about the possibility of an Apple car, with Bloomberg recently claiming that the company has an ambitious 2020 date in mind. Nothing concrete is yet known about the specifics of the company’s plans, though we can of course speculate.
Apple’s first move into the automotive market may be use of the Apple Watch as a keyfob for existing cars, an application mentioned by Tim Cook in a recent interview.
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That reads like a standard NAICS / SIC code description.
I think they are working a a new locomotive.
BMW Z4 35is..
..and unless it almost puts me thru the seat and growls when I hit the accelerator I'm not interested. I hate city cars.
In before the Apple hating trolls show up to pollute the thread with off topic bullshit.
> ...nothing should be read into the inclusion of ships and aircraft, though we’re sure there will be a breathless headline somewhere soon about an Apple plane...
Well, of course the first thing folks will get weird about is that the plane is driverless, having an autopilot, you know... Oh, wait...
Now, now, even parasites have their place in Nature. Consider head lice, round worms, crabs, malaria, tapeworms -- there are so many parasites!. Consider the lowly maggot, which those trolls remind me of the most... no, wait, bedbugs! That's it...
I've always maintained that no PETA person was really seriously committed to the cause until they volunteered their body to be a Smallpox Reserve. It is the species that is most threatened with extinction right now. You'd think they'd be falling all over themselves to preserve this example of Nature's Diversity.
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