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Lew Later

If This is Actually the Apple Car...

Lew Later

Quickscope Media

Tech News, News, Technology

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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0:00.0

You may, you may have, you probably saw this render poking around, it caught my attention.

0:07.6

I mean, this is a really, this is a slick look right here.

0:10.9

Of course, we still have the Apple cart rumors leading to renders and new conversations

0:18.2

between Apple and other automakers, not just Hyundai, not just Kia.

0:27.2

Like, a lot of people, it's a very, it's a tough topic.

0:31.4

It's a tough, if you were an automaker and you had to decide, okay, do I sign up with Apple,

0:39.0

do I deliver 100,000 vehicles for them while at the same time they become well aware of this

0:47.0

business, this process, and then slowly work to cut me out of the deal, right?

0:52.4

That's kind of the way it goes, like, especially if it's at the tail end, Apple is on the front

0:56.6

end of this deal. In other words, all the brand recognition, all the cloud, all that stuff,

1:03.9

they don't have the manufacturing side of it, at least not yet, and it's, as Tesla has proven,

1:09.7

it's difficult to do that part of it. But if they get this intimate relationship with a pre-existing

1:16.3

company, does it benefit that company in the long run, and is it worth the, oh, I don't know,

1:23.5

what would it be, a couple billion dollars up front? Well, yeah, 3.6 billion would be what it

1:28.6

would be for, for Hyundai. If it's close as well to any other Hyundai vehicle, which one are

1:36.3

people going to pick, the Apple version of it, what kind of contracts are going to exist as far

1:41.7

as all the R&D that goes into fabricating this one-off vehicle can Hyundai then use certain aspects

1:49.9

and components, or is that completely off-limits? You can see how tough this is. Now, with smartphones

1:57.0

and Apple working with companies like Foxconn for the most part, they're not competing for the same

2:01.6

customer. If Foxconn wants to get another customer, they got to find another Apple to manufacture

2:06.8

on their behalf. And they're not making their own phones. That's what I mean. They don't slap Foxconn

2:11.1

on it. Now, it's a totally different business. There's not that many automakers. And so it just

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