Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: OT: The other Apple Drive Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 04:53:04 +1000 Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <55fc9149$0$43521$b1db1813$e2fc9064@news.astraweb.com> <2015091816195071006-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <55fca3aa$0$4204$c3e8da3$12bcf670@news.astraweb.com> <55fcf294$0$31272$c3e8da3$dd9697d2@news.astraweb.com> <55fd8a37$0$9124$c3e8da3$5d8fb80f@news.astraweb.com> <190920151324165294%michelle@michelle.org> <55fdf3ef$0$62988$c3e8da3$1cbc7475@news.astraweb.com> <55fee01d$0$43899$c3e8da3$5e5e430d@news.astraweb.com> <200920150939582025%michelle@michelle.org> <55feef67$0$35483$c3e8da3$b280bf18@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Y+SV9RkA4be6pDRqkSHulw4P3tPhRFeKMaeFSqelaRYrXb0/U= Cancel-Lock: sha1:tR5SVQ6nU1JKlKUQDW3fJnLU6gE= In-Reply-To: <55feef67$0$35483$c3e8da3$b280bf18@news.astraweb.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:80052 misc.phone.mobile.iphone:78109 "JF Mezei" wrote in message news:55feef67$0$35483$c3e8da3$b280bf18@news.astraweb.com... > On 15-09-20 12:39, Michelle Steiner wrote: > >> It is your implication that Apple would try to develop its new car in >> hiding right up until it is launched that implies that Apple isn't >> competent. > > You too eh ? > Hint: Apple's standard modus operandi is to develop > things in hiding until the last possible minute. Perfectly possible with a self driving car, test it with an entirely different body to the one you plan to announce. > Yeah, sometimes a products such as Mac Pro > is announced a couple of months before retail > availability. But generally, Apple is extremly secretive. Still perfectly possible to do with a self driving car. > Do you deny that ? Having fun thrashing that straw man ? > So in what way is it derogatory to state that in > the case of a car, Apple won't be able to hide > stuff until last minute like it does on its phones ? It assumes that Apple is too stupid to use a completely different body when testing the car on public roads to the one that they announce when they decide to do that. > (last minute being a couple weeks > before event when leaks start to happen)