Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by serf 1226 days ago
>I personally find the lack of vaporware from Apple refreshing.

They recently nixed their AR products that had been hinted at for forever, and the 'Apple Car' was 'right around the corner' sitting as a boogey-man juxtaposed to Tesla's efforts for years before being cancelled.

They're more reliable than most groups, but post-Jobs Apple loves to mention fantasy stuff that consumers will never see, it's part of their hype cycle.

3 comments

I think there's important distinction here in that neither of those projects have ever been officially mentioned by Apple PR.
Apple at no point ever “announced” a car or any AR products.
> but post-Jobs Apple loves to mention fantasy stuff

Apple never does this. They've never mentioned AR hardware, they've never mentioned Apple Car or anything else to that effect.

You're talking about the media at large which does this for the purpose of speculation.