The Apple Car - A $10 Billion Failure
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With $10 billion spent, Apple's secretive car project has been cancelled, but what went wrong, and why did they want to make a car? In this episode we find out the confusion and chaos behind the scenes.
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It’s because it couldn’t have windows
@milkybar06
Ай бұрын
😂
@mariusnenu
Ай бұрын
Ta-bum-tsss
@Opalcutspeter
Ай бұрын
This deserves alot of likes 😂😂😂
@protogenxl
Ай бұрын
Actually they just couldn't figure out how a person would be able to flip it upside down and plug in the charger
@urip_zukoharjo
Ай бұрын
If you can't have windows, then you should just have one large and long window
Charger is not included
@train_xc
Ай бұрын
Tires, seats sells as accessories
@twenty-fifth420
Ай бұрын
Apple Pricing: Charger: 99.99$ per month. Tires: 599, 2999 for a set. Seats: Free, except for heated seats, that cost 199.99 per month, unless you buy an IPhone with the ‘Hotseat’ app, then it is 198.99 per month.
@LazarusStr
Ай бұрын
Zing 😂😂
@yousuff1
Ай бұрын
Gets slower after each update
@kurtkurtson9111
Ай бұрын
"Batteries not included"
Thank god. Knowing Apple, they probably wouldn't let you even change your own light bulb in the car. You would need to book an appointment with an Apple specialist, and in one week they would sell you a refurbished car instead of changing the bulb.
@y000ks
Ай бұрын
Let’s be real 99% of people take their car to the dealership for a light bulb now 😂
@_BangDroid_
Ай бұрын
Same with tires, they'd be custom spec with insane markup, special order only, and probably some proprietary fitment.
@_BangDroid_
Ай бұрын
@@y000ks By choice, but you can still DIY if you want to.
@tonyduncan9852
Ай бұрын
Vampiric. There are a few benefits from losing blood, but nothing's permanent..
@demonofthefail
Ай бұрын
So many car companies are like that already. I mean you can’t even open the hood and touch the engine on a Porsche.
If you cancelled your rental subscription, the brakes would stop working.
Catastrophic car accident: "Siri, call 911! 🙏" Siri: "I found this on the web for 'call 911'"
@tvm73836
Ай бұрын
😂🤣
@bruxi78230
Ай бұрын
Siri doesn't need to be involved, the phone already dials emergency services in an accident and relays the location.
@ashesfrombones
Ай бұрын
Siri : 911 is a tragedy happened in the year 2001, where terrorists hijacked 2 planes....
@wolfie8012
Ай бұрын
😂😂😂@@nebylicza
@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman
Ай бұрын
@@ashesfrombones 😂
The tires would’ve had a proprietary connector mechanism. A new set of Apple Pro Rubber Wheels™ would’ve cost you $10,000 for each wheel. And you’d get a permanent warning on the screen if your tires weren’t authentic.
@Kredo800
Ай бұрын
You missed word "only" before $10,000
@qud3913
Ай бұрын
@@Kredo800 at that price, with the Apple logo, it's basically a steal!
@stonward
Ай бұрын
Excellent!
Good. This world doesn’t need another +100k$ disposable car that’s impossible to repair on your own.
@Asfgxff
Ай бұрын
Ironic how iPhones are more repairable than the Samsung androids.
@itsarin2166
Ай бұрын
@@Asfgxffhardware replacement wise iPhone is easier based on iFixit scoring. However, the one problem with iPhone repair is that dumb proprietary software when you do third party repair which removes some feature for the screen and battery, and for some reason even genuine parts still cause problem to the Apple part pairing software which ended up removing features like True Tone, Auto Brightness, or Battery Health data.
@JM-st1le
Ай бұрын
So??
@boozecruiser
Ай бұрын
@@Asfgxff Samsung is dogshit too, no need to go into fanboy defence mode bud
@ivoryas1696
Ай бұрын
@JM-st1le Are you replying to the person above you?
9:17 "a sub 100 000$ standard car." Imagine living in a world where a 100K$ car is considered standard.
@abdulhameedal-sikafi8944
22 күн бұрын
Cars are the most overrated crap when it comes to pricing.
@monicarenee7949
21 күн бұрын
For “luxury” 100k is sadly becoming the standard
@lzh4950
15 күн бұрын
Maybe in countries where car taxes are high e.g. it's 200+% in Singapore so a Corolla there costs S$160k (~US$120k) while an entry-level S-Class costs about the same as a Citaro public bus (which are tax-exempt)
o noes my front light is broken, guess its time to buy a new car xD
@EdwinCristobal
Ай бұрын
They make un-fixable unmodifiable phones.. wouldn't surprise me if they also made their car that way. Just like ferrari.
@volundrfrey896
Ай бұрын
That's essentially a tesla though.
@bowdlerise
Ай бұрын
Error 666: Not enough Apple social credit tokens to upgrade
@limitbreak2321
Ай бұрын
@@volundrfrey896 😂yeah Tesla is the only ev car maker
@rmkensington
Ай бұрын
New headlights easily cost $8000
Probably saved them a $100 billion not to actually produce it😂
@Boogieeeeeeee
Ай бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking: better a 10 billion project flop than a 100 billion production flop
@KROMO50
Ай бұрын
They would have charged 150 billion for it
@jt25JT
Ай бұрын
@@KROMO50 And sued for 300 billion
@salty_berserker_channel
Ай бұрын
Tesla got this, all the way to the bank
@jkfang
Ай бұрын
Apple has so much cash, 10B is like a small blind in a poker game
Warranty voided for opening the glove box
"This guy has an odd accent, I wonder if he's Australian?" Dagogo: "Cheers guys, have a good one " "YEP"
@mariedevan
Ай бұрын
I believe he is from New Zealand
@Pretzil43
Ай бұрын
@@mariedevan Nah, that would be "Cheers bru, ave a good one ay cuz"
@mariedevan
Ай бұрын
@@Pretzil43 he really is from NZ. I’ve watched his videos for years 😆
@Pretzil43
Ай бұрын
@@mariedevan And you're basing that on what tho?
@leonfrancis3418
Ай бұрын
Is he aboriginal descended?
If Apple made cars each part would be sold separately
@arden6025
Ай бұрын
Real 😂
@Mustachioed_Mollusk
Ай бұрын
Proprietary tires and windows no one else makes...it'll start expensive and keep going that way lol
@scroogemcduckrich9705
Ай бұрын
😂😂😂 and they would slow the car down after 4 years when the new model comes out
@itsjustdave77
Ай бұрын
Lol
@EdgyNumber1
Ай бұрын
You'd need a dongle for it though.
"If you think about a car, what is a car? A car has batteries, a computer, a motor and a mechanical structure... IT'S AN IPHONE! It even has a motor inside!!!! We just make it bigger, slap some wheels for good measure and a subscription based windshield wiper and yeah, apple car!!!!! We know how to do it because we already do!" That right there is pure comedy material
@pierrex3226
Ай бұрын
The hubris in that statement is crazy. If there's one take away from Musk's biography by Isaacson is that production at scale is incredibly hard. So with a statement like that, saying building a phone is like building a car, they had already lost.
@danielhale1
Ай бұрын
Right!? This doofus expertly telegraphed the failure. Their management had no idea what they were doing.
@Cheepchipsable
Ай бұрын
That the kind of thing Musk says. "Hey, it just like an air hockey table!!"
@philv2529
Ай бұрын
Lol subscription windshield wiper
@slaapkonijn58
Ай бұрын
Yeah you just hear the salesperson say it. With all the engineers in the background slapping their foreheads.
7:00 > _"project titan"_ it was destined to be a big sinking ship right from the start
@GraveUypo
24 күн бұрын
that's what i was thinking. i don't think a "project titan" ever made into production
@jai-kk5uu
22 күн бұрын
It was fail ic
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Ай бұрын
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Ай бұрын
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@BeverleeR.Ziegler
Ай бұрын
One of the fiduciaries I deal with is Alicia Ann Jordan. Just check the name. There would be a letter with the necessary information to set up an appointment.
@phreak761
Ай бұрын
SCAM
@Funglutton
Ай бұрын
SCAM
Add an extra 25mph top speed for only 1999$
@chiquita683
Ай бұрын
Like Tesla?
@smaaack
Ай бұрын
25 extra for $2k is a bargain
@volundrfrey896
Ай бұрын
@@smaaack Yeah car guys out there are spending way more to add way less.
@iteerrex8166
Ай бұрын
Hey come on it’s an apple, it would be more like $20K
@andersvesterholt2170
Ай бұрын
Tesla literally does this
"One of the key drivers", "Pull the plug", "Reaching the finishing line", the puns game is solid in this episode!
@rjung_ch
Ай бұрын
"Issues under the hood" and others 🙂
@JamesKennedy33
Ай бұрын
When someone leaves they're no longer "driving" the project forward too 😂😂
@anticarnick
Ай бұрын
I'm of the same Accord. It was a great Fit with the puns about this this Pilot project in Civic engineering was an Odyssey. Sorry, this turned into my Passport for jokes of my own.
@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman
Ай бұрын
Love this comment section
Outstanding report. Thank you for producing.
Cannot be happier. The last thing we needed was a car that cannot be repaired.
@leeyu1692
19 күн бұрын
We should be getting a new car model every year. Save the repair money for the new one.
"Even before Apple could start the ignition, there was trouble under the hood". Well played Altraide!!
@robertthomas4329
Ай бұрын
No ignition. It’s electric.
I'm just imagining the car "mysteriously" malfunctioning when Apple came up with a new model of the car.
@Cheepchipsable
Ай бұрын
"We had to turn off the wheels to make you battery last longer...You're welcome!"
@jimmyw7530
Ай бұрын
Yeah, but it would have worked perfectly with full software support for 5 plus years though. Meanwhile, the Android car stopped getting updates after 2 years and is essentially a buggy mess now that doesn’t move 😂
@inviktus1983
Ай бұрын
The battery drains faster and it doesn't drive as fast as it used to If Apple/Microsoft made cars was a joke in nerd circles in the 90s. its hilarious to see it almost become reality
@Spoonfed78
Ай бұрын
@@jimmyw7530 🤣 it's ok you can buy yourself a Xiaomi car to help break from the cult. Yes like most other companies more abilities than Apple 🤣. Even when they prove themselves useless with the most money in the world their church members still have to crack at others for their own inability. You do realise that a number other phone manufacturer offer longer (7 year) update support than iChurch right. Oh and even lower specs brands can last well out to 5 years. Don't let facts get in the way of the heart break one will never pose around in the church of Tim's pope mobile 🤣
@jimmyw7530
Ай бұрын
@@Spoonfed78 Got one! I love baiting the Android zealots. I don’t buy into your brand tribalism. I’ve had as many Android phones as iPhones over the years. Plus I own a Mac and several PC’s. Congratulations, you sound ridiculous dude 😆
We have Waymo cars here (Phoenix) with no drivers. Pretty jarring at first but I’m totally use to seeing them now. Still think they are neat.
Can you imagine the cost of the genuine (required) Apple charging cable!
*Apple Car gets a scratch* A local repair shop does a paint job. *Apple Car won't start* Apple Car Screen: You have used a third-party paint. Only use an authorized Apple paint.
@jai-kk5uu
22 күн бұрын
More realistically: car won't start On screen: unbalanced weight. Contact support.
@hungnguyen-so7ou
14 күн бұрын
tires also need authorized Apple air
But would it become slower with each software update?
@raddastronaut
Ай бұрын
Nah, it would just brick. 😂
@Shadow__133
Ай бұрын
This ⬆️ I use the same ipad for the same things (youtube, kindle and email). However, after 3 years, the darn thing decided; to do everything at an elderly pace 😂 Ridiculous.
I had to wait for an iPhone commercial to play before watching this video.
@scrubvision5652
4 күн бұрын
over prices garbage rectangle
I love the Cold Fusion community, as expected the comments section mirrored what I was thinking about an Apple Car. Absolute golden comedy and great puns by Dagogo 😂😂😂
An arms race between tesla and apple to make the first fully unrepairable car.
Must be a nightmare to repair an Apple car that doesn't like right-to-repair. Take the car to the nearest Apple store, ask someone at the Genius bar and get an repair estimate that will make more simple to buy a new model everytime you have a scratch or need to change a light bulb...
@bawbsmith
Ай бұрын
You have it backwards... Many car manufacturers, and pretty much every luxury car manufacturer even today, have pulled scummy moves like non-standard parts, voiding warranty if your car was repaired by a non-authorized garage, charging exorbitant fees for basic maintenance, etc. for decades even before Apple was a company. Where do you think Apple got their ideas from? The term "planned obsolescence" was coined by the automotive industry to begin with.
@johnsmith-cw3wo
Ай бұрын
@@bawbsmith I think it was Mercedes in the 60's who by mistake built a car that can last ''forever''
@socksumi
Ай бұрын
Apple will no longer support it after 4 or 5 years and tell you to buy a new one.
@MephiticMiasma
Ай бұрын
@@bawbsmith Have you checked out the history of light bulb production in the early 20th century?
@bawbsmith
Ай бұрын
@@MephiticMiasma Yes I'm aware (great Veritasium video). The automotive industry was first though, dating as far back as 1924.
The only integration in a car I want to see is an engine hooked to a transmission that has a set of gears selected with a stick shift and clutch combo. I want to see just enough gages to safely operate the car (tach, spedo, temp, battery/charge). I want comfortable supportive seats, roll down windows, and A/C and heater. That's all. Package that in a somewhat small two-seater sports car and I am more than happy.
There was so much talk a decade ago about retraining truckies etc for when driving was obsolete, saying retrain in coding etc. Funny bow that we're in the future it feels like all that type of work is under threat, but good old fashioned labour like driving is still needed.
How nice, that a company with no plan to make a car, can have 250 patents, that can potentially block other car manufacturers from improving their cars. The world is strange.
@pvshka
Ай бұрын
Copyright shouldn't even be a thing. All of the intellectual achievements should be freely distributed to the humankind.
@alexandruciordas4941
Ай бұрын
it's OK China would use those patents as they don't care and get shit done. Instead we will buy from them and lose our industry.
@Whiteboykun
12 күн бұрын
I own a patent from back in university. It's nothing you'll ever see on store shelves. Patents are definitely a cutthroat business. When I applied I got swarmed with accusations of stealing other people's ideas by organizations all over the world. Some were baseless, nearly all didn't do due diligence and fucking READ what my patent was. It was kind of a headache and I was just a little shitkicker grad student with a new kind of device in my lap. And then there's patent evergreening which unfortunately EVERYONE does. You can act all noble and caring and not engage in the practice, but dozens/hundreds of corps. will just rip you off and do it for you. You have no choice but to play dirty like everyone else.
@Whiteboykun
12 күн бұрын
@@pvshka So we should just invest millions/billions of dollars, years/decades of research into something and just be like, 'ayy lmao here you go! don't even trip it's on the house'.
@pvshka
12 күн бұрын
@@Whiteboykun yep
I would love to hear louis rossmann ranting about that apple car once it would have sold. 😂😂
@PsRohrbaugh
Ай бұрын
"what do you mean each tire is a unique part number?"
@MephiticMiasma
Ай бұрын
Something tells me that servicing it would have been a problem....
@vidal9747
Ай бұрын
@@PsRohrbaughright to repair is already a thing in most countries for cars. We just need to make it mandatory for EVERY SINGLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE.
@Mytwistedvoices
Ай бұрын
Hello everyone, today we will look into fixing an Apple car that won’t power on.
It's just standard product development ? - not everything comes to market - to characterise it as a flop reflects a lack of understanding product develoment.
I'm glad you mentioned that Apple didn't say this 'will' be a product. Another issue that would have come up is that other car manufacturers would stop supporting Apple CarPlay. It's going to be hard to have human driving and fully Tomas (if we get there) on the road at the same time; I've seen so many human drivers doing things that confuse other drivers; an autonomous one would probably have a more challenging time figuring out what's happening.
Apple spending $10 billion is the same as me spending $1
@HailCaesar-lm4bq
Ай бұрын
O’ and Joe spent u to oblivion with EV subsidies . Your future up in smoke 💨
@mazimadu
Ай бұрын
More like spending $1000. It is a trillion dollar company after all
@ceasetheday87
Ай бұрын
I realize you are exaggerating but you do realize that is billion with a B? $10 billion to a trillion dollar company is not cheap. Most companies don’t reach billions of dollars. It’s probably closer to the average person spending $1000-$10,000.
@SofaKingShit
Ай бұрын
It's not worth an Apple execs time to stop and pick up a $5 due to lost income.
@migovas1483
Ай бұрын
is 10 billion of actual money, and they are worth a Trillion, but doesn't mean they have that as the whole budget ..also mostly speculation and shares, is not "real" money, be sure if tomorrow they want that Trillion to be money they would loose like half or more on the chaos..
I'd've thought that if Apple made a car and it broke, they wouldn't allow you to fix but would expect you to buy another one.
@mylesgray3470
Ай бұрын
Nah, you could take it to the Apple Store and change the touchscreen windshield, but would cost more than the car was worth. Might as well trade it for a new one. 😂
@G_de_Coligny
Ай бұрын
It’s called Tesla….
@Spoonfed78
Ай бұрын
Nonsense, you're simply driving it wrong 🤣 When on a tilt tray the fan boy owners would still claim it's not broken it's just "on display"😂
@larryc1616
Ай бұрын
Buy the extended warranty AppleCar care 🍎 🚘
@BogeyTheBear
Ай бұрын
That's Tesla all right. They make all of their components in-house and exclusively for new production vehicles, not as spares to be sent out to service centers to repair damaged components. Trash a door or a bumper on your Tesla, that's a five-figure repair bill and a months-long wait for them to finally release a replacement part off the assembly line. It'd be quicker and easier (for _them,_ of course) if you just got a new car instead of trying to fix the old one.
Thanks for this video!
Amazing video my dude!!!❤
I am glad i waited to watch this thing from you. I was seeing so many vids in my feed about this.
Problem with corporations, they want to be involved in everything. Smartphones>videogames>streaming>TVs>cars>social media,...
@cttommy73
Ай бұрын
Cause they want to own you. Own everything, own you.
@scroogemcduckrich9705
Ай бұрын
well multiple revenue streams is beneficial to a business. But I take your point
@taylarogers313
Ай бұрын
I agree!!! Do one or two things and get them right!!!
@amel0
Ай бұрын
Main reason is that expanding your business keeps it relevant and also doesn’t stagnate growth. Apple wouldn’t have been so popular if they only sold iPods and iPhones since the 2010s
@garystinten9339
Ай бұрын
They want to be your gods..
was the charging connector underneath the car?
I used to run a design research lab for the connected car at a major tech firm. I can confirm it's common practice to test an idea by having someone pretend to be the technology, because you need to know the idea is good before all the invesent of time and money. You can't wait till the tech exists before testing the ux. We call it a "Wizard of Oz" test. .
6:27 I appreciate the Siri slander. 😆
Very informative and well researched as usual! You are my favorite channel for keeping up with what is on the cutting edge of technology.
I'm a retired Brit HGV driver(on roads NOT stroads)just before I retired a large Supply chain co. I drove for, started to, experiment with software/hardware, that had input into the vehicle controls, which led to Sudden braking/acceleration, In a 44ton truck on the M6/M25 in rush hour, drivers refused to use said vehicle,
@deanherron3805
Ай бұрын
10 BILLION IS PEANUNTS TO THE CAR INDUSTRY
Thank you cold fusion
The one concept image early in the video was straight up just a magic mouse with wheels on it. lmao
No way would a single dude leaving result in a company stopping a project worth billions. If he had that much pull, they would've raised his pay to keep him. Odds are, he was made aware earlier than others of the possible closure of the program due to other reasons, and he decided to find another job in the same field before that happened.
@TheBooban
Ай бұрын
You think it’s money that motivates Ives? Hardly. At this level, money is not more than points in a game, just status.
@ShaneTheBane
Ай бұрын
@@TheBooban you think the second largest company in terms of how much money they make *doesn't* care about money at all? Lol. You don't get to that point without caring about money. Also, they are a publicly owned company. That means by law, they HAVE to care about money
@TheBooban
Ай бұрын
@@ShaneTheBane we were talking about a person, not a company. You said they have raised his pay to keep him. He wouldn’t have cared for that.
@ShaneTheBane
Ай бұрын
who are you talking about? The person I was talking about them wanting to keep would be DJ Nevotney, the person mentioned in the video as one of the key people of the project that left it. That's who I was talking about in relation to giving a raise. Not Ives
@TheBooban
Ай бұрын
@@ShaneTheBane oh. Well, probably ditto for him too.
8:28 > _"poached a startup to oblivion"_ aah yes, innovation at its best.
I love your videos! That intro music is awesome, very relaxing and always seems to be setting the right atmosphere no matter what topic you are covering! Your voice is awesome as well.
Apple could be the first to start the trend of car micro transactions and people would defend them. Scary stuff.
@volundrfrey896
Ай бұрын
Tesla already have micro transactions in their car though. You want to "unlock" the full car you bought, that's just a "small" payment away. Will that stay unlocked when you sell the car? Nope.
@David-Zita
Ай бұрын
scary my brother, it's a cult system
@MetallicReg
Ай бұрын
@@volundrfrey896this was the reason why Apple dropped it. Tesla has stolen their revolutionary milking system.
@YoungAsznee
Ай бұрын
Tesla and Benz does it already iirc
@volundrfrey896
Ай бұрын
@@MetallicRegI mean Apple doesn't have microtransactions. That's the one thing you shouldn't criticize them for because they don't do it. Telsa and other car manufacturers does.
Apple would probably charge a monthly subscription fee to use the car 💀☠💀
@user-uk9er5vw4c
Ай бұрын
SaaS is the future, like it or not
@TheHandOfGovernment
Ай бұрын
That’s called a lease
@Flightcoach
Ай бұрын
On demand ride sharing. That's the future
@AaronSmith1101
Ай бұрын
Apple doesn’t charge a subscription fee when you buy any of there other hardware products. So you just don't like Apple.
@sasmit.9846
Ай бұрын
56 hours in emerald? were you in the battle frontier?
background music: Richard Spaven, Vincent Helbers Feat Jonas Lonnas - 1750 (Outra)
I'm reminded of Dyson wanting to make a car and scrapped the idea
@TheManOfTheHourEveryHour
Ай бұрын
Dyson not making street sweepers is the biggest missed layup ever 😂😂😂😂😂
@PvtAnonymous
Ай бұрын
@@TheManOfTheHourEveryHour imagine if Kärcher made a car :)
@mylesgray3470
Ай бұрын
I would think they could make a hovercraft. 🙂
@Cheepchipsable
Ай бұрын
Briggs and Stratton made an electric car. It was on Jay Leno's Garage.
@coldestbeer
Ай бұрын
Well they did make the Dyson sphere
00:00 🎥 Introduction to the video 00:07 🍏 Story of Apple's attempt at a self-driving car 01:43 📉 Bloomberg report on Apple winding down the EV project 02:36 🔍 Exploration of Apple's car-related patents 03:08 💡 Elon Musk's offer to sell Tesla to Apple 03:14 🤔 Speculations on Steve Jobs' view on Apple making a car 03:40 🚀 The beginning of the Apple car rumors in 2015 04:24 🕒 Mid-2010s: An enticing period for Apple to enter the automotive industry 05:06 🎯 Possible reasons why Apple wanted to make a car 05:54 🗣 Tim Cook's comments on autonomous systems 06:38 📰 Initial positive reports on Project Titan followed by turmoil 08:05 🔄 Leadership and direction changes within Project Titan 08:40 ✂ Scaling back of the Apple car project 10:19 🛡 Sponsor Segment: Incog's Data Protection Service 10:48 🍏 Apple's Cancelled Car Project 11:33 🚙 Transition from Car Project to AI Focus 12:07 🤖 Apple's Aggressive Move into AI 12:42 🚫 Challenges in Achieving Fully Autonomous Vehicles 13:08 🔄 Apple's History of Abandoned Projects 13:30 🎭 Apple CarPlay: The Trojan Horse in Automotive Industry 13:51 👋 Conclusion and Sign-Off Key Moments by Agent Gold AI
When I saw the word flop superimposed over a futuristic looking car I must admit the first thing I thought of was the cyber truck.
Excellent post! You have one of the best channels available on this platform. As for the project, I highly doubt that Jobs would have embarked on it, especially at this cost. All of which begs the question, why is Cook still their CEO? Granted, he had some huge shoes to fill but Apple hasn't produced any revolutionary products since Jobs passed away and, in terms of functionality, one can argue the software has declined. One of the attributes that Jobs possessed, and what made Apple products so neat, was the simplicity of design and functionality.
The pitch sounded like a bad con job.
If a component fails, you have to replace the whole car!
@DMahalko
Ай бұрын
The Apple branded 12 volt battery is serialized to the car.
Great video as always
Is that "1759" in the background of the video?! ❤️
No siri was harmed in this video 😂
@tonyduncan9852
Ай бұрын
There must be a magic word which sends her into infinite regression. Surely?
I don't understand why Apple would spend billions on a conceptual car, but not millions to buy Masimo in order to not have to disable the blood oxygen sensors on the Apple Watch...
@navdeepsugandhi6476
Ай бұрын
Ego
@emanggitulah4319
Ай бұрын
Because they can... And need to justify their expensive lawyers
@maxweinbach3996
Ай бұрын
Did Masimo entertain offer for sale?
@bruxi78230
Ай бұрын
@simille4 --- It's really simple. Apple understands math, and you don't. Masimo currently has a market cap of 7 billion dollars. If you really wanted to buy them it would cost an addition 25%, so now you're up to around 9 billion. That's way too much to spend on a feature like blood oxygen sensors. The payback on that is never.
@pitech4446
Ай бұрын
Apple got cocky and thought it was easy to make a car and make tons of money from it. They missed calculate by hiring a FORD engineers to be their head. Anything coming from FORD is dead. Secondly, they thought having a lot of people working on Self driving can solve self driving but they are wrong. Third, they don't have manufacturing to build their car. In china an EV startup can have a car manufactured easier because they have tons of supplier and manufacturing. So happy Apple got humbled
I was excited for this. But after working in different autonomous driving projects, I thought that this technology won’t go anywhere until a better sensing and recognition technology come out. The algorithms we currently have simply won’t cut it in real-world applications. I think I’ll stick to getting a hybrid instead. Still better than most EVs when it comes to mileage.
They got bogged down on implementation concerns with the car bricking itself after six years requiring an update to the latest model, plus it only ran on 4% of the electricity available in the US.
Dope Content Cold Fusion 🤘🏼😎💯💧
When it mentioned they had plenty of patents, I was certain in my hunch that this was another "patent grab" to squeeze out money for obvious solutions down the line.
@snorttroll4379
Ай бұрын
Shud be illegal
Naming it 'Titan' though? Kind of prophetic in hindsight. "Well that was a titanic failure"!
That $10bn may have produced some new tech we've not heard about yet.
A small part of my soul dies every time I hear someone incorrectly use the phrase, "Begs the question."
@ObiWanShinobi67
Ай бұрын
Take it with a grade of salt.
@davianoinglesias5030
23 күн бұрын
😅it's the curse of knowledge
Gosh I remember everyone jumping on the self-driving car thing almost as hard as they're jumping on AI now. Turns out it was harder than they thought. Who knew?
@bearcubdaycare
Ай бұрын
Well, the background leading up to that was an annual contest by DARPA, in which teams typically formed of a university partnering with a company's laboratory competed with other teams to make a vehicle that could autonomously navigate some closed test course. At first, the results were as you'd think, typically aim just to get an entry to work at all, mostly an excuse for students and researchers to play with and push technologies. The general consensus seemed to be that autonomous driving wouldn't be feasible in anyone's then lifetime, but hey, a good excuse to see what you can learn about AI and how to make it work, an exciting academic challenge rather than a prospect. But each year entries got a bit better. Eventually, vehicles were completing complex courses, and at one point a closed city street scape was used I understand. After that, DARPA stopped holding the competition, as it was no longer advanced research, and rather development. Companies took that as a sign that autonomous driving was now a commercial possibility, or not so far away. No one wanted to miss a gold rush. But as you said, it (unsurprisingly) proved harder, even after the successes at the DARPA competitions. It's a challenge with a very, very long tail of situations to successfully handle. Some recent videos show FSD trying to slowly nose its way out of a narrow alley across a sidewalk and into a street, without being able to see so far down the sidewalk or road. Or navigating a busy Costco parking lot with an endless stream of pedestrians pushing large carts of groceries and purchases, and cars and pickups pulling in and out of parking spots. Or a construction zone. Variable weather, potholes, other drivers whose intent you have to suss in a context dependent way, kids playing. It's surprising that autonomous driving has gotten as far as it has. Seeing some recent videos, it's spookily human like in its manner...but also some needed human interventions. Is it a year away, a decade, or never? Does it require full AGI (general intelligence)? I doubt that anyone can quite know yet. And maybe we're actually even approaching the Kurzweil singularity, beyond which progress gets ahead of human ability to foresee. (But to end on a positive note, driver assist has gotten way better it seems to me, a benefit even if full AD is Never, or next century.)
@Zoltan1251
Ай бұрын
Literally every human being with brain. One unusual thing on the road and self-driving car is done. Literally, just one cone that is weirdly placed when there is construction on the road and self-driving car is done for. Human just eyeballs it.
@vinny142
Ай бұрын
@@Zoltan1251 "One unusual thing on the road and self-driving car is done" Worse: car manufacturers will never accept responsibility for damage caused by their self-driving tech, so insurance companies will; always blame *you* for any accidents that your car causes. This means that you will always be monitoring the your self driving car like you see the testers do today: constantly looking at the vehicle and traffic and trying to predict what mistake the car is about to make and pre-emptively correct for it. It's exhausting, annoying, it's *more work than driving*.
@MarcusBadi
Ай бұрын
Agreed. But this is inevitable. Apps like Uber are just collecting data enough to use with self-driving cars in a near future. It was harder then they thought, but It is getting better and easier exponentially. Take that Will Smith eating pasta for example: just in a year the video changed from "funny unreal" to "is this real?". We will probably get to a point that to drive a car you'll need a document and a private road (something that already happens with horses, you can't ride them in the middle of NY). I'm not saying that I agree with it, just saying that this will happen and unfortunately there is nothing we can do about.
@tonyduncan9852
Ай бұрын
I knew. Elon's FSD v12 is within sight of the finish line in a one-horse race. Deservedly.
Self driving cars aren’t as hard to make as we think! It’s actually quite easy with today technology! The real problem is cooperation! 1 car company trying to create a self driving car is hard because it’s only communicating with itself! If all car companies understood the advantages of it & came together to put technology in their cars that allow all cars to respond to one another it would work! Imagine all cars having sensors & chips in them that communicate with all other cars on the road! Self driving would be the future! Inventing sensor tech that can scan humans, road conditions, traffic signals/signs & challenges on the road would be easy! We are making it more complicated than it has to be! I know a company that makes infrared camera technology for cars that scans for deers & animals etc coming before you see it yourself & thought to myself “this is the future”! We are our own worst enemy! Tesla almost had it but the rest of the car community left them out to hang instead of supporting them & coming together to make it better! I’m not an engineer or anything but I know for a fact it can work if we wanted it to! We may not be ready for self driving cars just yet, but once we are, I promise it’ll work seamlessly! 💯👏🏽
Steve Jobs talks to someone about a car and we get "20 years ago Apple was thinking about making a car.". Dang, when I was 7 years old in the 1970s I thought about making a car, a spaceship, a time machine, a robot, etc... I guess I was ahead of them all.)
Great vid! Is that your own music at the end too???
Imagine the long wait times at the genius bar to get your windows fix
I remember many Apple test cars would roam the street at night on El Camino Real Mountain View CA.
It is very important to know when exactly to throw the towel 😊
Kinda wild to consider Apple is so big this write-off is likely within their cash on hand margin for error.
It makes sense on a certain level for Apple to want to launch a car product, however I think this is a very mature industry which makes manufacturing to the level of Apple's high standards very difficult. Apple also doesn't like launching loss-leading products, so they would want to sell something that would add profit to their business. Doing it alone would probably skyrocket the cost and probably result in them still falling below quality standards, so the only way this ever made sense was for Apple to partner with an existing manufacturer, one that is premium enough to satisfy the quality requirements such as Porsche. Apple was right to dismiss Tesla as Tesla manufacturing is nowhere near the quality level of most car makers, let alone the premium brands. Apple probably doesn't necessarily _want_ to own the manufacturing facilities, either, so paying a premium to partner with an existing manufacturer makes financial sense. However, the obvious question becomes what will Apple offer to separate their car from other brands beyond the Apple name? I imagine Apple was struggling to answer that question. I also would guess that they, like many others, suspected that fully autonomous vehicles would be arriving much earlier than they actually are. The technology just isn't there for safe, fully autonomous vehicles and it's anyone's guess as to when it will be, if ever. Unlike Tesla, Apple doesn't promise things it can't deliver and generally doesn't bring a product to market before it's finished. Launching a half-baked car that is like every other car would have been a big mistake. I imagine they'll revisit the idea at some point, but probably at least a decade or two from now.
@DownUnder43
Ай бұрын
High Standards ? 😂🤦
@rars0n
Ай бұрын
@@DownUnder43 At least where fit and finish is concerned. "Premium feel." Ignore all of the critical design flaws, their users don't care about those.
You are awesome man and got a voice of a God
Imo the battery technology is a massive undertaking that is difficult to crack..even for Apple. A Toyota executive recently said the resource that’s needed to build one EV can build 6 hybrid cars. More innovation is needed to make financial & environmental sense.
Imagine having to buy a dongle just to charge your car, and then also having to replace your charging cable every few months. "We've revolutionized the car by removing unnecessary old clutter like ports, doors, and people."
Without full self driving, this would just have been another car but without the manufacturing experience. Better use that AI staff for other more plausible AI uses.
"Siri, I don't know where I am, take me to Point B" Siri: "Why don't you look out the Windows"?
Tony Fadell: Our iPhone is just like a car! Shark Tank: I'm out.
It's amazing how many companies were trying to make self-driving cars, but it turned out to be such an insanely difficult task that not even Apple could do it
@TheBooban
Ай бұрын
Just an EV car. They can’t even do that.
@velenteriushendeneros3251
Ай бұрын
I mean they probably could. It would just be insanly expensive.
@bac3phi
Ай бұрын
Lack of data.
@andrasbiro3007
Ай бұрын
Tesla did it. Apple had no chance, for self-driving you need a large neural net, and for training that you need obscene amount of data, and to collect that you need a large fleet of cars (millions). And even making an EV you can sell at a profit is insanely hard. AFAIK still only Tesla could do it, everyone else is losing money on each sale.
@davidc1878
Ай бұрын
@@andrasbiro3007 I would suggest to check out Common Sense Skeptic.
12:50 Like the Magic Mouse, the charge port was on the bottom of the car 😩😂
Do you know the background sound at 6:00 ? Thanks
"Siri , call 911" - "You have to unlock your car before doing anything"
Seeing a Mark Dice quote on a ColdFusion video. That's a real magical intersection
@hiiiiiii238
Ай бұрын
Glad someone else noticed! lol
Lol nice Mark Dice cameo 06:48
@mcuthor7831
Ай бұрын
The great Mark Dice. It’s a shame his KZread channel has essentially been black listed; in reality, he should have 5M subscribers or more.
So I guess Incogni is the new Raid Shadow Legends. I’m seeing this everywhere.
The guy compares a motor in a phone with a motor in a car, completely eliminating all the other differences
Apple was saying that producing a car was going to just be as easy as making a phone a few years ago 😂
@JohnSmith-pn1vv
Ай бұрын
Haha they should stick to shiny bricks and leave real production to the japanese
"Please tell me this is just a normal field trip" - Anorld from Magic School Bus
It makes this slightly worse is how they had announced a next gen CarPlay experience a few years ago
Another phone company, Xiao Mi, just showed how it's done with a fraction of the $10B Apple spent.
Now in frustration, they sell a pair of failed glases in 30,000 dollars. (Charger not included).