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Yep agreed. I said "could" sell. I agreed that first year production would be less than that.
I don't understand why they wouldn't just buy Tesla as opposed to making their own.
Elon has no interest in selling Tesla now or years into the future.
IMNSHO, there's no way Apple is building a car from the ground up.
Here's my guess: Apple is working with Tesla on the infotainment/autopilot systems, and Tesla will sign a multi-year (at least two year) exclusive licensing deal with Apple. Apple stores will start showing the Tesla interface, and you'll hear Apple employees at the genius bar say, "Hey, if you want to try out the system in actual car, we have some cars outside." Once in the Tesla, they'll say, "You really can't try autopilot on a stationary car, so we'll take it out on the road. Remember, this isn't a test drive. You're just evaluating the Apple software."
This sounds kind of like a 'secret weapon' to increase demand, doesn't it? Tesla will be free to show their cars in all 50 states in hundreds of more locations.
Ewww! Apple is now another bean-counter controlled company--you really want Tesla to go down that path?Anybody consider the possibility of a merger?
+1. I think you are spot on!
In addition, every time there is a merger (between two relatively large companies, not a buyout of a very small company) jobs are lost and the economy shrinks by a small amount. After hundreds of mergers the hit to the economy is no longer small. I like the way Ben & Jerry put it: "No matter how many billions you have, you can only eat so much ice cream".Tesla's market cap is currently $25.57 billion. Apple's is $740.20 billion, 29 times as much as Tesla. It would not be a "merger", it would be a "takeover" of Tesla by Apple. See What is the difference between a merger and a takeover?
This blogger does Apple will buy Tesla for $75b in 18 months | Calacanis.comAnybody consider the possibility of a merger?
Emphasis mine.[snip], but unless Tim Cook has a burning desire to create a car they are unlikely to be successful.
We know that Apple wants CarPlay to be a success so of course Apple needs to being in some people from the automotive industry. But car play is an "infotainment" system, it is nothing like a system that can control every aspect of vehicle operation.
In theory Apple could devote $10 billion of its war chest with the objective of building cars (and obviously they would be EVs) but looking at it realistically I do not believe they will do so.
Elon pulled off the nearly impossible feat of creating the first successful new car company since Chrysler was founded in 1925. I don't see Tim Cook replicating that feat.
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(I don't see a merger happening)