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by Animats 3696 days ago
Apple may be developing automatic driving technology, but actually making cars seems unlikely. They mostly outsource manufacturing, after all.

Apple might be working on something to take a bite out of Facebook or Google Search or Amazon's Echo. The next big thing is likely to be "you just talk to it and it does the right thing". Siri with common sense.
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IBM 3696 days ago
Facebook and Google Search are ad businesses, and looking at those businesses they're very small compared to Apple. There's also tons of competition there already and it's outside of the skillset of Apple.

Apple is making a car not self-driving technology. They may develop self-driving technology, but the business will be making a finished product that they sell to customers, not licensing technology to others (which is what Google is doing).

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jbigelow76 3696 days ago 

    >Facebook and Google Search are ad businesses, and looking at those businesses they're very small compared to Apple.
FB maybe, but Google? Back in February Google was larger than Apple in terms of market cap. As of right now Apple is back on top, $506B to Google's $491B, explain again how Google is "very small compared to Apple"?
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IBM 3696 days ago
Google's business is 90% ads and they did $16.35 billion in profit in the last year compared to Apple's $50 billion (from Yahoo Finance). Should Apple focus their efforts to get a chunk of the ad $ out there or focus on a business that utilizes their competencies?
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