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Apple Car Project Enlists Porsche Engineer In Rumored Poach, Report Says - Reviews

5th February 2021
"Porsche’s talent will have a hand in a vehicle from the technology powerhouse."

According to a report from Germany, one of Porsche's finest engineer left the company to work on the rumored Apple Car.
Hyundai is said to play a major role in the mysterious Apple Car and her sister Kia could even develop it in the USA. Now, it is speculated that Porsche’s talent will have a hand in a vehicle from the technology powerhouse. 




Apple Car Project Enlists Porsche Engineer In Rumored Poach

Business Insider Germany confirmed that Apple has recruited Manfred Harrer, the vice-chairman of the chassis production company of Porsche. For Apple, this will be a big score and a strong indication that the company has significant automotive plans.

If it is true, Harrer has not made the move public as his LinkedIn profile is calls him the SUV Cayenne line vice president.

BI Germany says that at the end of last year, Harrer left Porsche quietly to work on the highly secretive Apple Car project. Porsche declined to comment on the "potential personnel matters" and Apple refused to give Harrer's job status comments.

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Compiled by : Rahul Shrestha Rahul Shrestha

Amazon launches first fitness band in bid to take on Apple, Fitbit

27th August 2020
"The scope of growth in the fitness band market."

Amazon.com Inc on Thursday launched its first fitness band and app, Halo, as the e-commerce giant looks to take on Apple, Fitbit and Samsung in an increasingly crowded fitness tracker market.

The Halo band, which does not feature a display screen unlike most of its rivals, is priced at $99.99, while the app membership costs $3.99 per month, Amazon said.

The scope of growth in the fitness band market has prompted tech giants such as Apple Inc and Samsung to introduce many sophisticated features for health tracking, including electrocardiogram and blood pressure sensor.

In comparison, Amazon has featured a relatively new technology in the market called tone analysis, which reviews users’ tone during conversations. When enabled, a microphone on the band listens to detect emotions such as happiness, confusion or affection in the speaker’s tone.

It remains to be seen if consumers would embrace this feature or would it spark privacy concerns. Amazon said the technology was designed in a way that protects privacy.

The company said the water-resistant band, with a battery life of up to 7 days, also contains an accelerometer, a temperature sensor, a heart rate monitor and can measure body fat percentage.

Alphabet Inc-owned Google is also making strides into the fitness market. Google in November said it would buy Fitbit Inc for $2.1 billion, a deal that is currently under regulatory scrutiny.

The market is also crowded by cheaper offerings from China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and Xiaomi Corp.

source:reuters

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Expected Apple Car May Shake up Auto Industry in Asia and World

12th January 2021
"Apple's potential entrance into the auto industry, U.S. and Chinese high-technology companies' share prices shifted uphill."

Apple, the world pioneer in information technology, is highly likely to get into the automotive market. The American company is currently planning to use a business model similar to its iPhone output to build self-driving electric vehicles produced by an automaker under a tie-up agreement. 

A potential Apple Car is believed to have an impact on the automotive industry's competitive environment.

 

Apple Car

Following stories by Reuters and Taiwanese news media on Apple's potential entrance into the auto industry, U.S. and Chinese high-technology companies' share prices shifted uphill.

In the US, strong investor interest has been attracted by companies such as Velodyne LiDar, a manufacturer of light detection and ranging (lidar) sensors that serve as the "eyes" of self-driving cars. In China, investors rushed to the world's largest electric vehicle battery maker, Contemporary Amperex Manufacturing, and other suppliers of EV-related components.

An Apple Car will be a "collection" of high technology, said analysts at American and European auto market research firms, indicating that it is possible to shift suppliers of key automotive components.

Through the use of smartphone creation and manufacturing know-how to build automobiles and through the horizontal division of production, the Apple EV project is expected to have a more serious impact on the car industry. Though outsourcing manufacturing to businesses such as Hon Hai Precision Industry, a top Taiwanese electronics contract manufacturer, Apple will likely concentrate entirely on designing vehicles.

Apple is expected to commit itself, as in the case of iPhones, to overall design work, including self-driving technology, while outsourcing manufacturing. The strategy is likely to shake the current vertical integration business model of the auto industry, in which carmakers participate in the entire process from concept to production.

In China's auto market, the horizontal division of labor is already progressing. Baidu, a top Chinese internet company leading the development of self-driving technology, revealed on Monday that it would manufacture EVs on an original-equipment-manufacturing basis with Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, a major automaker in China.

Apple Car

Magna International, a leading Canadian supplier of automobile parts that has progressed on behalf of car manufacturers to produce vehicles, is seen as a leading contender for producing the Apple Car. Allegedly, Taiwan's Foxconn, which has collaborated with Apple in the development of smartphones, also wants to win the contract.

The Apple initiative has gained attention from automakers as well. South Korea's Hyundai Motor said Friday that it is in early talks with Apple over a tie-up to create an EV. If obtained, a large order for the manufacture of the vehicle would likely allow Hyundai to increase its capacity utilization rate and stabilize earnings.

But the project may threaten the dominance of carmakers at the top of the sector. An executive at a major Japanese carmaker cautioned that automakers can "become Apple's subcontractors and lose their originality."

On behalf of Didi, BYD agreed to manufacture EVs because it can expect to benefit by growing performance, an analyst from the auto industry said. 

Although Asian businesses are beginning to move in an effort to capitalize on the Apple Car project, the question is whether Japanese companies are ready for it. 

As in the case of smartphones and consumer electronics, there remains fear that Japanese companies will lose the initiative to Chinese and South Korean rivals.
 

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Compiled by : Rahul Shrestha Rahul Shrestha