Apple cancels car project

https://lemmy.ml/post/12491972

Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Ending Decadelong Effort - Lemmy

Thank fucking god. Imagine the kind of monetization that would exist inside an Apple car. You think subscription seatwarmers are bad, and they are, but I can guarantee Apple had much worse in mind, and that most companies would simply follow suit.
Or blaming customers for problems, “You’re shifting it wrong.”
Not sure if you’re aware that EVs don’t “shift” or if that’s an indictment to the level of idiocy that would likely be employed by Apple.
It’s a reference to an actual response from Jobs when the iPhone 4(?) had a bad antenna design.
Thank you. Apparently my half joke has rustled some jimmies.
I think it’s more that you missed Dan’s joke than anyone being upset.

Porsche begs to differ.

All you had to do was a basic search for what EVs have multiple gears, but you didn’t.

What I like is that a bunch of idiots seemed to take offense to my comment which was meant more as a joke. I do admit I wasn’t aware there were EVs with gears. Though this is mainly because I won’t be in the market for my next EV for hopefully years. When I was looking into it, it was largely seen as unnecessary.

Yeah I’m aware. There is no reason for EVs to shift, but Toyota was trying to add a manual transmission to an EV for some reason.

But “you’re shifting it wrong” would be a scenario like the car wouldn’t shift from P to D and Apple blames the driver.