Apple Car | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Fri, 14 Aug 2015 03:43:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Apple Car | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Apple working on curved device that displays images and has sensors https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/anton-shilov/apple-developing-mysterious-curved-device-that-can-display-images-and-features-sensors/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/anton-shilov/apple-developing-mysterious-curved-device-that-can-display-images-and-features-sensors/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2015 02:35:41 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=263470 No commercial companies like to share what exactly they are developing, but Apple is know for exceptional secrecy when it comes to future products. Nonetheless, a financial analyst has discovered that the company is working on something large and made of glass. The market observer did not classify the object, which seems to look like …

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No commercial companies like to share what exactly they are developing, but Apple is know for exceptional secrecy when it comes to future products. Nonetheless, a financial analyst has discovered that the company is working on something large and made of glass. The market observer did not classify the object, which seems to look like a television set.

“It is likely that Apple is creating a completely new device,” wrote Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with Global Equities Research, in a note to clients, reports Tech Trader Daily.

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The analyst did not reveal what kind of product Apple is working on, but gives a rather interesting description, without revealing where he got the information:

  • A device which is 27” to 50” curved glass somewhat resembling a car windshield or a curved display;
  • The whole surface area acts like an HUD (heads up display);
  •  The various sensors are built right into it.

The launch timeframe of the product is not imminent; the device may be released one, two or five years from now. The functionality of the device is also completely unclear, it could be a TV, a computer, some sort of a digital signage for  retail stores or a windshield of Apple’s rumoured electrocar.

“We think this could be the next generation of some computing device, which may be completely gesture controlled,” said Mr. Chowdhry. “We will continue to monitor the situation and provide incremental updates and insights if and when we get them.”

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Apple traditionally works on multiple projects and devices, but very few of them actually get finished and make it to the market. For example, the company tried to develop a tablet in the early 2000s, but eventually transformed the project into iPhone. Ultimately, Apple did release a slate, but it was completely different compared to the project it had worked on years before. The new device allegedly developed by Apple may hit the market, or may not.

Apple did not comment on the news-story.

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KitGuru Says: The large curving piece of glass that can display images could be a new product or may not be a product at all. The device could be some sort of a side project needed to develop certain technologies that are not yet here.

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Apple plans to release its own cars by 2020 – report https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/anton-shilov/apple-plans-to-release-its-own-cars-by-2020-report/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/anton-shilov/apple-plans-to-release-its-own-cars-by-2020-report/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2015 02:00:01 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=236710 Apple has always been a rather creative company, which developed tens of devices many of which never reached the market. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in the late 1990s, he cancelled the vast majority of projects to focus on promising ones. Nowadays Apple’s product lineup is broader than ever. However, the company is not …

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Apple has always been a rather creative company, which developed tens of devices many of which never reached the market. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in the late 1990s, he cancelled the vast majority of projects to focus on promising ones. Nowadays Apple’s product lineup is broader than ever. However, the company is not standing still and plans to enter a completely new market for itself, the market of cars, as early as by 2020.

Bloomberg news-agency reports citing its sources that Apple has been secretly working on a car for some time now. Last week the Financial Times also revealed Apple’s ambitions to enter the market of automobiles. Although Apple does not have any experience or technologies necessary to build vehicles, it has $178 billion in cash and can buy loads of patents, specialists and building blocks for cars. The news agency claims that the consumer electronics giants plans to build an electric vehicle and release it as early as in 2020.

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At present General Motors and Tesla are working on electric cars that can go more than 200 miles on a single charge and cost less than $40,000. The two companies intend to introduce such automobiles in 2017, hence, Apple will not be the first to the party.

“That’s the inflection point — the proving ground — that brings on the electric age,” Steve LeVine, author of “The Powerhouse,” a book about the automotive battery industry, said on Bloomberg TV on Thursday. “Now you have Apple coming in and this is critical mass. Was GM really going to be able to match Tesla? Apple can.”

Tesla’s success in creating a startup car company has demonstrated that the customary barriers of entry into the auto industry are not as hard to overcome as initially thought. As a result, with tons of cash in its pockets, Apple can clearly solve the vast majority of problems. With electric vehicles Apple does not need a lot of traditional car technologies, therefore, it is not that behind companies like BMW or Daimler. At present Apple’s car team includes 200 employees and the company is actively hiring various additional engineers and experts. Nonetheless, the target to release its first car in 2020 seems to be too aggressive.

“If you’re starting from scratch, you’re probably talking more like 10 years,” said Dennis Virag, president of Automotive Consulting Group. “A car is a very complex technological machine.”

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Although Apple may be developing a car and may plan to release it in 2020, this does not mean that the company will actually do that. Apple has been working on its own TV-set since 2010, but so far has released nothing.

Apple did not comment on the story.

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KitGuru Says: It will be very interesting to see whether Apple manages to build its own car without teaming up with existing automakers. While the company has experience in many fields, cars are indeed very complex devices. Moreover, in addition to development of a car, Apple will need to design a way to manufacture it in high-volumes, which is also tricky. While Foxconn Electronics, the company’s main production partner, said some time ago that it would explore car manufacturing, actual status of the project is unknown.

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