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Comment Re:related news today re: Apple Car (Score 1) 76

Well, it's possible. But if they did that they'd need to keep the existing car shipping, and it wouldn't make any sense to rebrand it, so it'd probably be a Beats type arrangement.

I suspect that rather than wanting to adopt an existing design and approach, they want to start a car design from first principles.

Big project, necessarily long time scales. But that's the nature of cars. There's no hurry, the market is not going anywhere.

Comment Re:Lol (Score 1) 248

You demonstrate exactly what I'm talking about.

You're assuming the nature of the bug. And when writing an operating system you can almost always fix the real bug, or get it fixed, not simply guard a known bug.

And you don't know you need to guard it on input unless you have a breaking test case.

The argument that it's an unlikely case to have written misses out that tests are not just random, but explore edge cases.

Comment Re:related news today re: Apple Car (Score 3, Informative) 76

What makes you imagine Musk can make an electric car company from scratch and Apple can't? Musk is rich, but even so he nearly ran out of money, what with Tesla And SpaceX. He got so near to the brink at one stage he was going to have to pull out of one - but won some space contracts just in time.

As well as the design chops and the desirable brand, Apple has effectively limitless amounts of money to throw at making a car.

Yes, buying Tesla is an option, but there have been car related hires at Apple going on for some time now - if they were going to buy Tesla, you'd expect it to be before the hires.

For the car buying public it is better that they compete. There will be more innovation, quicker that way.

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