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Project Titan, the Apple electric car project, has been underway since 2015. But the project has faced numerous delays and...

Bloomberg: Apple targets 2028 release date for its own electric vehicle::Project Titan, the Apple electric car project, has been underway since 2015. But the project has faced numerous delays and…

@the_q@lemmy.world
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Charging port will be on the bottom and be non standard.

@espentan@lemmy.world
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  • Proprietary charging ports/stations, $50/KWh.
  • Increasingly slower acceleration as the vehicle goes out of warranty.
  • Any attempt at repairing faults with the car is a breach of TOS.
  • Turn signals, headlights, stereo… all features are $5/month on the Apple Store.
  • Apple Maps will guide you into ravines and gardens.

Apple lovers would mortgage their home just to be on the waiting list.

  • seats are sold separately, are basic with no adjustability but follow aesthetic. Costs $10,000 each.
  • replaces high and low beams with mid beams so it’s less confusing for the user.
  • no speakers or anywhere to plug them in, but your Apple representative will be happy to upsell you a set of air buds and chargers for each seat.
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  • proprietary light bulbs, tires and air valves.
  • can only open anything engine related like fluids at the dealership.
  • can only fix broken windows at the dealership.
  • repairing means having to swap the old car for a new one for a fee, or stay with the defective car. The old car will be shredded to “save the environment”, following their “green” practices.
@Plopp@lemmy.world
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  • The underside is made of glass.
  • You have to hold the steering wheel at 9 and 3 or it won’t work.
  • Is only compatible with the Apple ecosystem of accessories such as wheels, tires, child seats etc.
@Bakachu@lemmy.world
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Locks you out if it detects an Android device on you or any of your passengers.

Nonono! That’s not how “you’re holding it wrong works! It’s 11 and 7.

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This is something that I probably won’t buy, but I’m curious to see what Apple would do with an instrument cluster.

@jopepa@lemmy.world
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Whatever your opinion of the business and products, it’s a hard argument to make against their tangible UI.

@Nollij@sopuli.xyz
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You can 100% just look to Tesla to see what will happen. Tesla has been following the Apple model (“but on cars”) since the beginning.

  • Proprietary connectors? ✔️

  • Walled garden of accessories? ✔️

  • Blocking independent repairs? ✔️

  • Highly integrated experience? ✔️

  • Sleek and different, but not necessarily good? ✔️

  • Reality Distortion Field? ✔️

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Thank god Balmer is no longer in charge of Microsoft or we would soon have a Microsoft car. It would look vaguely like the Apple car and have one unique feature that is so poorly implemented it is worthless.

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