If Apple Designed A Car, Would It Be Like This, And WHO Would Buy It?

If Apple Designed A Car, Would It Be Like This, And WHO Would Buy It?
How would look like a car invented and designed by Apple? Italy based auto designer Liviu Tudoran has taken inspiration from the Apple Macintosh products and designed a concept car called iMove for the year 2020.

This car will be electric, of course, and will feature the same general design lines like all the latest Macintosh products. Most of the car body is covered with transparent materials, so that even under the roof the driver get a cabriolet feeling. This transparent material is also a solar panel.


iMove will be able to seat three passengers and will feature an innovative luggage storage space. The concept will also offer various possibilities for customization, so the owners will be able to change the car’s appliance according to its own preferences.




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Bmw8terBmw8ter - 10/12/2010 11:32:19 AM
-4 Boost
.....it'd be redesigned and upgraded the very next year, and sold at half the cost resulting in a massive outcry by the original consumers.


Joe_LimonJoe_Limon - 10/12/2010 11:46:09 AM
-1 Boost
People who would want to buy under performing overpriced vehicles with a badge of course.


Agent009Agent009 - 10/12/2010 12:42:44 PM
+8 Boost
Hmm not an apple fan are you?


Joe_LimonJoe_Limon - 10/12/2010 1:09:00 PM
-3 Boost
nope, I'm still sour about the experience I got with one of their ipod's. Total waste of money.


MorePowerMorePower - 10/13/2010 4:35:31 AM
+7 Boost
C'mon Joe, it's not fair to judge a company's product line by a bad experience with one model. What's that called again...?

To be fair, Apple has no intention of producing and selling their own, albeit if it was only in branding, car. Why you ask: the profit margin is not high enough. Apple would like to create and sell the Apple experience to consumers and automotive manufactures.

Apple will, if only to battle Google & MS, introduce some type of automotive entertainment/information center.


Agent009Agent009 - 10/12/2010 12:53:31 PM
+5 Boost
How about:

1. So intuitive there is no owners manual, onboard help would be built in
2. Touch sensors for all accessories
3. Built around an app environment where all options are apps and third party apps can be purchased to customize the experience.
4. Built in WiFi
5. Complex components will be built out of liquid metal for strength and weight reduction (Apple bought rights to use the stuff)
6. Closed system for reliability and ensure the experience is unique (GM will copy with an android based system that will be an open system and have all of the associated issues with the current crop of phones)


You can keep adding to the list...


uaw_laxuaw_lax - 10/12/2010 11:18:26 PM
-6 Boost
The android phones are far better than any ipone. Who would want a cellphone where you cant change the battery or the or upgrade the amount of internal memory yourself? And that's just the beginning.


LACMANLACMAN - 10/12/2010 2:57:26 PM
+1 Boost
Im suprised that I have never seen one Apple ad on this website. JUST SAYIN...

Sea Doo might as well get into the automotive business if this is even a discussion...


pepito66pepito66 - 10/12/2010 3:12:19 PM
+9 Boost
Yes I would take one if they have the same quality of every Apple product.


Joe_LimonJoe_Limon - 10/12/2010 3:32:12 PM
-8 Boost
Apple products have average reliability, there is nothing special about them. The public perception of quality stems mainly from the packaging. Furthermore the belief of better quality control has always been confirmation bias, where Apple consumers believe the quality control is higher because they bought the products for that reason.


SteveSteve - 10/12/2010 3:42:47 PM
+8 Boost
Joe_Limon says "Apple products have average reliability, there is nothing special about them."

Can't say I agree, and I'm a PC guy. I've been burning out wireless routers every 9 to 14 months. Various brands, various models. Some would just get problematic while not arguably "dead." Step in Apple's Airport Extreme, and no issues for over 3 years!

While it is true that the sun does not shine out of Apple's butt, it is equally true that they do some things very well.


Joe_LimonJoe_Limon - 10/12/2010 4:05:30 PM
-7 Boost
I've never had problems with wireless routers. The only reason I've ever bought new ones is to upgrade signal types. That being said, one story can never tell the whole picture. I could counteract your 3+ year old router to the ipod I had that only lasted a year before it would regularly crash every few songs, and a year an a half till it continuously rebooted till it ran out of power. I was far from an early adopter so I have no idea why it did that. Anyway, what I was trying to explain is not that my story holds more water then yours, but that it's hard to draw conclusions that their product is good or not from individual stories.


Agent009Agent009 - 10/12/2010 4:49:39 PM
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Joe,

I have to agree with Steve here. I typically replace Apple products as the become out of date relics. As Steve said I have had one Airport Extreme for the last 3 years that is still running fine while I have gone through 2 Cisco switches and one Netgear router on the same network.

In a commodity based environment such as the PC industry price almost always overrules quality. In this case I would rather side in the favor of quality and a company that stands behind their products than a low entry price.

You get what you pay for. BTW in that same network I have 4 Macs 3 PC's and host of handheld devices. The Windows PC's by far are the most problematic (in both software and hardware prospectives).



t_bonet_bone - 10/12/2010 9:59:42 PM
+8 Boost
Joe -- "I'm a PC" and have been building PC's for 15 years. Apple hardware is much better--better materials and better engineering.


Joe_LimonJoe_Limon - 10/12/2010 10:15:05 PM
-7 Boost
it's all about the packaging, I've seen the insides of apple products. I agree they are nice to look at, but functionally, they are overpriced and nice packaging does not equate to better performance.


SteveSteve - 10/12/2010 3:46:09 PM
+3 Boost
I'm more interested what kind of car Superman would drive if he were real. Or if Jesus were here today, would he be riding a Harley (and wearing a T-shirt that says: F* loud pipes saving lives, *I* do!)

In other words, let's all argue about whose wild-assed speculation is better, and whose opinion on that speculation is more valid.


Arsen89Arsen89 - 10/12/2010 7:23:54 PM
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Yeah Joe Im going to take it all you have bought from Apple are iPods and if you are just using that as reference to judge and entire company, well that does not sound like your usual smart *ss self at all.


Joe_LimonJoe_Limon - 10/12/2010 10:22:23 PM
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My family members have iphones, half of the computers I have used up until grade 12 were macs, and my sister has a macbook pro. I've had far more collective experience through me and the people I know then just the ipod I owned. From all that experience I've noticed one thing. Apple users are equally prone to crashing. Only they crash differently. They don't get virus's, they simply wear out from cheap electrical components.


Joe_LimonJoe_Limon - 10/12/2010 10:25:31 PM
-8 Boost
By wearing out, I mean anywhere from 3 months after purchase to 3 years. Thanks to apple, we live in an ever increasing disposable society. I only hope that the automotive market doesn't go in the apple direction. Automotive electronics should last a life time, they are not disposable.


Larrybel2000Larrybel2000 - 10/12/2010 8:21:34 PM
+7 Boost
I would buy it if you could plug in and buy cool performance apps. Free upgrades would be cool too.


uaw_laxuaw_lax - 10/12/2010 11:22:38 PM
-3 Boost
nothings "free" from apple.


Larrybel2000Larrybel2000 - 10/13/2010 12:27:24 AM
+6 Boost
I think Mini should head this up.


mpwrmpwr - 10/13/2010 10:55:36 AM
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You guys are forgetting that the only way that Apple would build a car would be after they build their own network of refueling stations/receptacles and then only allow you to to purchase energy from them. And of course if you violated this... the car would stop running.


uaw_laxuaw_lax - 10/13/2010 11:41:05 AM
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like i said nothings free from apple


rubenkincaidrubenkincaid - 10/13/2010 7:47:01 PM
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It wouldn't look like this. It would probably look like the entire Audi lineup.
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