Apple Car

[VicParticipant @vic]

**LINK**

Small purchase for Apple apparently if it comes off.

[VicParticipant @vic]

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Microsoft car – works perfectly well but you wonder why the dashcam is watching the driver, not the road.

Linux car – gets you there, but only after you've spent six months to get the various parts working together. Adding a new air freshener means the steering wheel will cease to function until you take it apart and rebuild the entire vehicle.

Apple car – takes you in style and comfort to somewhere quite near where you wanted to be that no-one else can get to.

Neil

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Well I doubt that this will affect their core business ………………

Norman

[frank brownParticipant @frankbrown22225]

It will be VERY shiny and every time you touch something, it'll change shape. I wonder if they can develop a thermal fuse?

Fraank

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

I thought Apple’s next purchase was to be an Irish Jaunting Car.

[Chris SheltonParticipant @chrisshelton11794]

I bet battery life will be poor.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Chris Shelton on 21/09/2016 18:13:47:

I bet battery life will be poor.

And the speakers

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 21/09/2016 17:30:55:

Microsoft car – works perfectly well but you wonder why the dashcam is watching the driver, not the road.

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Leeching more specific personal data.

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

And the speakers

The speakers won't work unless you have a special apple-bluetooth connection

[I.M. OUTAHEREParticipant @i-m-outahere]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 21/09/2016 17:30:55:

Microsoft car – works perfectly well but you wonder why the dashcam is watching the driver, not the road.

Linux car – gets you there, but only after you've spent six months to get the various parts working together. Adding a new air freshener means the steering wheel will cease to function until you take it apart and rebuild the entire vehicle.

Apple car – takes you in style and comfort to somewhere quite near where you wanted to be that no-one else can get to.

Neil

Microsoft car – a new version is released every 2 years that is even worse than the last and they discontinue support so you have to upgrade whether you like it or not !

Apple car – if it breaks down it has to go back to them to fix it as no one can afford the specialised tools to pull it apart and everytime there is an upgrade it takes a month for the various systems to talk to each other again !.

Samsung car – spontaneously combust when you plug it in to charge it !

Linux car – the one you buy just to be different to everyone else and because love tearing your hair out by the fist full trying to get it to work with anything useful !

[Matthew ReedParticipant @matthewreed92137]

Windows XP car = Austin 7. Still works fine, if a little slow, and very easy to work on. Not very safe though…..

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

I’m surprised no-one has mentioned the last time a maker of personal computers (of a sort) got into transport – Mr Sinclair ! –

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Frances IoM on 21/09/2016 20:48:25:
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the last time a maker of personal computers (of a sort) got into transport – Mr Sinclair ! –

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Ah, yes … I remember it well

… We did some low temperature testing on the bodyshell material.

MichaelG.

[Roger Provins 2Participant @rogerprovins2]

Posted by XD 351 on 21/09/2016 20:05:11:

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 21/09/2016 17:30:55:

Microsoft car – works perfectly well but you wonder why the dashcam is watching the driver, not the road.

Linux car – gets you there, but only after you've spent six months to get the various parts working together. Adding a new air freshener means the steering wheel will cease to function until you take it apart and rebuild the entire vehicle.

Apple car – takes you in style and comfort to somewhere quite near where you wanted to be that no-one else can get to.

Neil

Microsoft car – a new version is released every 2 years that is even worse than the last and they discontinue support so you have to upgrade whether you like it or not !

Apple car – if it breaks down it has to go back to them to fix it as no one can afford the specialised tools to pull it apart and everytime there is an upgrade it takes a month for the various systems to talk to each other again !.

Samsung car – spontaneously combust when you plug it in to charge it !

Linux car – the one you buy just to be different to everyone else and because love tearing your hair out by the fist full trying to get it to work with anything useful !

Linux Car – the one you don't buy, it's free! Is supported by a worldwide web of

enthusiasts, needs less fuel and is faster than its high priced competitors.

Roger

[VicParticipant @vic]

Folks didn't understand it when Apple bought out the iPhone either…

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Beaten to the draw, I was going to mention a certain Mr Sinclair, and his little car, that supplied DC motors to many model engineers, and other tinkerers. Have any of his cars survived?

Ian S C

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

What, you mean outside of museums Ian?

[Nick WheelerParticipant @nickwheeler]

Posted by Roger Provins 2 on 21/09/2016 21:10:43:

Linux Car – the one you don't buy, it's free! Is supported by a worldwide web of

enthusiasts, needs less fuel and is faster than its high priced competitors.

No, a Linux car is one that you have to assemble the mechanical bits, usually from junk you have lying around, and then install free software that was written 10 years ago for a 3 cylinder 10valve Gronkle engine, not your 5 cylinder turbo Aardvark. After six months of swearing and conflicting 'advice' you get it to run for 15minutes. Then you give up and buy a Ford that just works.

[Keith LongParticipant @keithlong89920]

IanSC – yes at least one of them has – I saw it last week being driven along the road around our housing estate. Couldn't quite believe my eyes!!

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 21/09/2016 20:52:45:

Posted by Frances IoM on 21/09/2016 20:48:25:
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the last time a maker of personal computers (of a sort) got into transport – Mr Sinclair ! –

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Ah, yes … I remember it well

… We did some low temperature testing on the bodyshell material.

Shouldn't that be 'bodyshell', as I recall the main protection for the occupant was a 'stylish' cagoule with elastic around the bottom.

I don't know if I am prescient but when I saw my first C5 advert I thought it would bomb…

Neil

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

Maybe Clive was just 30 years too early, he was with most things. Who would have thought back in 1980 that we would see grown men riding to work on foot powered scooters but we do.

The C5 is certainly not dead but seemingly only living on in 'cult land'. There are a couple for sale on eBay and there is an owners club you can join too.

What Clive really needed to sell the things was todays level of road congestion and high fuel prices couple with an altered state of what it means to be trendy (sorry cool).

If apple redid it and made it expensive enough it may just become the next big thing.

regards Martin

[Jeff DaymanParticipant @jeffdayman43397]

If the battery did go wrong in an Apple car, would you have to pack it up and ship it to California for a battery replacement, like an Ipad?

(If I wanted an electric car, I would buy ANY brand other than Apple, based on my experience with their overpriced trendy computer / music device / phone products) JD

[CirclipParticipant @circlip]

"Maybe Clive was just 30 years too early"

Not with the "Kit" micro TV. Was being advertised 20 years before it hit the shelves and then not a kit.

Wonder how many Apple owners also own a Mifford??

Regards Ian.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 22/09/2016 11:54:14:

Shouldn't that be 'bodyshell', as I recall the main protection for the occupant was a 'stylish' cagoule with elastic around the bottom.

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Sorry, Neil … Your "bodyshell" joke is lost on me.

It was the material for the white plastic bodyshell of the vehicle that we tested; not the weather protection.

As a vehicle … The C5 was 'open topped'

If it had two wheels at the front [like a Morgan] and modern batteries, it could have been fun.

MichaelG.

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