Steve Jobs Shows Us How Far Some Cars Will Get You On A Buck

Yeah, we all know that. But it isn't very interesting. What is interesting is to see that change is envitable and in the next couple decades the money is going to switching from the middle east to whoever figures out how to build cheap batteries and cheap renewable power. If we spend out time laughing at electrics and hybrids now, the Chinese figure it out first and will have the last laugh.

This is talking about how far you can drive for a buck. So why are you looking at the price of the car?

Also Agent00R, can you post the whole article. It states iADS for the iphone. Evidently this is an advertisement and Nissan is paying for the ad. It may also be one of the good iads for apple that is why Jobs is doing a demo. Why are you trying to conclude more than what it really is?

http://autospies.com/news/Nissan-Pulls-Off-An-Advertising-Coup-When-The-Leaf-Is-Featured-In-New-iPhone-Keynote-54929/

So I see this has been re posted. Where on earth is my article showing the long term effect of fuel economy compared to upfront cost? The leaf may travel far on a buck, but it still takes hundreds of thousands of miles before the costs are recuperated... and by then you're stuck with an expensive battery replacement.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v39/joe_limon/carcosts.jpg

Joe, send it in again and I'll take a look at it...

I'd never trust Steve Jobs about anything price related. Apple products are among the most expensive. How far can $1 go? Right into Apple's pockets.

An iPhone costs no more than a comparable Droid, yet the market seems to indicate people prefer it, indicating it's a better product. A better product at the same price indicates a good value in my mind.

A $999 MacBook is inexpensive or perhaps more-so than a similarly equipped Dell or HP. Notice i say similarly equipped. Apple doesn't make cheap computers because they don't want to diminish their user experience by underpowered crap, but it doesn't mean the products in markets in which they compete aren't competitive. A Porsche Panamera competes well with a 7er or S-Klasse on both price and performance, yet nobody would complain that Porsche's products are among the most expensive. They just choose not to compete in the bargain basement segment and make something to go against, say, a 3er or C-Klasse. I think you need to compare something else to a similarly spec'd Apple Mac, and you'd realize that similar products in the same CATEGORY are often priced nearly identically.

lol, Mac's are always underpowered when you compare prices.

http://www.hahastop.com/pictures/Mac_And_Pc851.jpg

I'll preface by saying that I am not an Apple or Steve Jobs fan.

We can debate about the merits of the analysis or the credibility of Apple/Steve Jobs all we want but it doesn't change the fact that Apple's endorsement of the Leaf is big for Nissan.

The ends don't always have to justify the means, so if this leads consumers to pay up for a Leaf because they view it as the Apple-equivalent of a car, Nissan wins, and the overly simplified research becomes irrelevant.