Apple has put the brakes on development of its electric car, according to a new report, with the team involved in the project now working towards making its self-driving autonomous car platform a reality.
We recently learned that Apple had brought former exec Bob Mansfield back into the company to lead Project Titan, and we now have new information on the person who is believed to be his first hire.
In a veiled revelation at Apple's annual shareholder's meeting, Apple CEO Tim Cook seems to have suggested that the Apple Car is real, but is a long ways away from being released.
We now have a high-quality concept of the rumored Apple Car, complete with a glowing Apple logo on its nose, and an "OSCar" firmware controlling its many software-based functions.
Amid constant speculation regarding the rumored Apple Car, the Cupertino company has taken control of not one, but three car-related top-level web domains, namely, apple.car, apple.cars and apple.auto.
Unless you're extremely consumer technology minded, and extremely au fait with everything that goes on internally at your favorite tech company, the name Tony Fadell may not mean anything to you. After enjoying a stint at Apple - where he ended up being referred to as the "father of the iPod" - Fadell is now the current CEO of Nest, the Alphabet-owned company that designs and develops intelligent thermostats and other home automation products. That clearly keeps him busy, but he's managed to find the time to reminisce with Bloomberg TV about his time at Apple under the late, iconic Steve Jobs and had a few things to say about the rumored Apple Car.
Apple has been rumored to have a team working on an autonomous car for quite a while now, and while the rumor hasn't been around quite as long as the fabled Apple TV streaming service, it is one that simply won't go away. There has been little in the way of solid proof that such a thing as an Apple-made car is in the works, though that hasn't stopped the rumors from flying.
A job site recently hosted a competition to allow designers to shift away from modern technology and focus on designing something that has no real basis in reality yet; the rumoured Apple iCar.
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