Comment by gigatexal
1 day ago
I never know why this keeps getting downvoted, is HN really full of investors and not engineers? why do you want buy backs and not R&D?
1 day ago
I never know why this keeps getting downvoted, is HN really full of investors and not engineers? why do you want buy backs and not R&D?
Because Apple dropped 10 billion on car research which was an apparent fail.
Far simpler and cheaper to snipe startups where you know you are getting a proven product. That comes with a fresh batch of engineers in most cases who specialize in the tech so you skip a lot of the hiring/training steps.
If I had an R&D request it would be they train some machine models on their developer feedback and public feedback databases to give some guidance on where the real holes are and what people are actually hoping for.
I certainly never wanted a car from them… the whole Apple business model is reducing the moving parts to reduce product failures and a car would be a huge regression.