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by cx1000 3300 days ago
After reading all the speculation about Apple's car project for so long, I'm actually a little underwhelmed hearing their plans. I'm not surprised at what they're doing, but there has been so much secrecy over nothing. I wonder why they kept it so close to their chest.
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Investors. Don't want to be seen as straying too far from the path or doing anything risky.
Think investors want the opposite. Apple to get in there and innovate again and do something. No 4k or HDR or VR or AI or 2 in 1s, etc.
The article says this plan to do just the kit is a deviation from the original plan of project Titan, which was to do the whole kit and caboodle.
Maybe because a few years ago this seemed unreachable, huge, special... (therefore secrecy). Today everybody knows it is reachable and near...