Apple Hiring Automotive Experts

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 13, 2015 @01:12PM from the cars-with-just-one-button dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A report at the Financial Times (paywalled) says Apple is on an aggressive hiring push to pick up automotive experts. Recent rumors suggest Apple is putting together a transportation research lab, and nobody outside the company is quite sure why. It's unlikely they's want to build an entire car themselves, but quite possible they see a big space for Apple technology within motor vehicles, much as Google seems to. They already have CarPlay, and it will doubtless grow, but we still don't have anything approaching a dominant platform for car software. Whatever they're working on, it looks like the competition for more robust computer technology in cars is heating up.

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Ba dum tis by Anonymous Coward · 2015-02-13 13:17 · Score: 5, Funny

I hope that the batteries are replaceable
1. Re:Ba dum tis by Marginal+Coward · 2015-02-13 14:33 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Don't worry about replacing the battery - they'll be selling you a new car with thinner sheet metal long before the battery wears out.
2. Re:Ba dum tis by AmiMoJo · 2015-02-13 21:28 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Naturally the sat nav will only allow you to drive to Apple approved neighbourhoods who paid a $250 fee to be vetted, to protect users from bad experiences.
  
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  const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
  SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
If Apple made a car... by R3d+M3rcury · 2015-02-13 13:53 · Score: 5, Funny

Would it have windows?