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Could you imagine what a Tesla would be like if the company was owned by Apple?

One shareholder told Cook, “I’d like to see you guys buy Tesla.” “Am I insane to imagine something might happen here?” another shareholder—and Tesla Model S owner—reportedly said to Cook.
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Highly doubtful Elon Musk would dilute the brand and his creation. Plus, due to affiliation with SpaceX there's national security implications selling to a Chinese company.
 
One shareholder told Cook, “I’d like to see you guys buy Tesla.” “Am I insane to imagine something might happen here?” another shareholder—and Tesla Model S owner—reportedly said to Cook.
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Ah yes, shareholders, insane to the extreme. Never content with steady long term gains, always demanding more quicker so they can cash out earlier and move on to their next venture. This is exactly what's wrong with 'Murica.
 
Steve said:
Could you imagine what a Tesla would be like if the company was owned by Apple?
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Now the iCar for 2 million dollars. Can't replace the battery. :p

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Nooooooooooooooo. Don't let the pretentious prick Ive anywhere near Tesla.
 
How the fuck is this even an article? If a shareholder wants Apple to make a device that rapes kittens, does that mean they are going to make a device that rapes kittens?
 
If Apple owned Tesla...

  1. The Tesla would cost 4x what it does now.
  2. The Tesla would come in a total of two configurations.
  3. New configurations would come out every 3 years or so.
  4. The power cord for the Tesla would be MagSafe and the default one would be 3ft long.
  5. You'd have to reboot the Tesla periodically while driving for the best experience.
 
Oh.. occasionally while stopped the Tesla will lose its connection to the steering wheel. But a fix will eventually come out for that...
 
Oooooo Not just a gold Tesla, an Apple Gold Tesla...

Mmmmm
 
Elon Musk doesn't need apple?!? Fucking brand-whore investors... Not someone I would want steering my company.
 
Once again, Edison is going after Tesla.
History repeats itself. :(
 
cjcox said:
Oh.. occasionally while stopped the Tesla will lose its connection to the steering wheel. But a fix will eventually come out for that...
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Not a flaw. You are holding it wrong.
 
Elon already has a crap ton of money, he's the kind of guy that wants to change the world and have fun, You could probably say "i'd like to buy Tesla for a million ka-jillion dollars... and even if you had that much he still wouldn't sell.

I know if I was in his shoes I'd give Tim Cook the bird and laugh as I drove away in my electric car of awesome-sauce

Seriously -- I could live a happy rest of my life with something like 8 milllion dollars... when you are worth 12 billion dollars, you can tell apple to go fuck itself no matter how much they throw at you.
 
Elon would be in the grave before he let Apple buy his pet project. Only if Elon was CEO of Apple, then he would think about it.
 
cjcox said:
If Apple owned Tesla...

  1. The Tesla would cost 4x what it does now.
  2. The Tesla would come in a total of two configurations.
  3. New configurations would come out every 3 years or so.
  4. The power cord for the Tesla would be MagSafe and the default one would be 3ft long.
  5. You'd have to reboot the Tesla periodically while driving for the best experience.
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No it wouldn't, because Tesla wouldn't survive then.
 
ocellaris said:
Tesla is owned by the shareholders, not Elon Musk.
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Well, Musk is a pretty large shareholder of Tesla, owning some 35 million shares, or ~28% of the company.

He is also CEO and chairman of the board.

Any buyout offer (unless a hostile takeover) would be made to the board where he undoubtedly has lots of influence, and the board would decide whether the shareholders vote on it.

So can he dictate whether or not a sale would go through? No. But he does have a lot of influence.
 
Elon Musk includes a free 17" tablet with every vehicle. If he wanted to he could kill off Apple's tablet business with the upcoming mass produced Model 3.
 
Zarathustra[H];1041476730 said:
Well, Musk is a pretty large shareholder of Tesla, owning some 35 million shares, or ~28% of the company.

He is also CEO and chairman of the board.

Any buyout offer (unless a hostile takeover) would be made to the board where he undoubtedly has lots of influence, and the board would decide whether the shareholders vote on it.

So can he dictate whether or not a sale would go through? No. But he does have a lot of influence.
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If he refused a very profitable offer, the rest of the board would turn on him.
 
Zarathustra[H];1041476730 said:
Well, Musk is a pretty large shareholder of Tesla, owning some 35 million shares, or ~28% of the company.

He is also CEO and chairman of the board.

Any buyout offer (unless a hostile takeover) would be made to the board where he undoubtedly has lots of influence, and the board would decide whether the shareholders vote on it.

So can he dictate whether or not a sale would go through? No. But he does have a lot of influence.
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Tesla stock is doing very poorly, investors would love a buyout

http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2015/03/09/tesla-stock-is-oil-stock-bad/
 
As an Apple shareholder, I have no idea why they would want anything to do with Tesla. As a matter of fact, this whole iCar thing is completely stupid. I don't think they're going to build an actual, physical car, probably just aiming at some kind of car system. Enter a market where they are going toe to toe with established car makers like BMW and Ford would be beyond insanity. This is not in accordance with Apple's typical style of selling things and keeping the margins high.
 
Apple just wants all the Tesla patents so they could sue anyone else trying to build an electric car.
 
Yeah, that's what Apple needs to do, move into a low-margin business that is already overpopulated with competitors.
 
Why would Apple buy Tesla? Terrible decision unless they want to buy back their brain trust that was poached by Tesla.

Tesla would benefit greatly, Apple engineers that musk was after for free YAY!
 
cjcox said:
If Apple owned Tesla...

  1. The Tesla would cost 4x what it does now.
  2. The Tesla would come in a total of two configurations.
  3. New configurations would come out every 3 years or so.
  4. The power cord for the Tesla would be MagSafe and the default one would be 3ft long.
  5. You'd have to reboot the Tesla periodically while driving for the best experience.
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And it would only support connections iPhones, would run slower every year when you upgrade the OS, and after 3 year it wouldn't be supported any more.
Plus it would bend, and catch fire if you used a non-Apple charger.
 
I'd love to see Apple get Tesla. It'd be nice to not hear as much about Elmo Monk this and Elmo Monk that all the time like the guy is important or somehow the only person behind the stuff his companies are doing. Then again, it was totally the same with Steve Jobs or Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates or everything the government does being the president's fault. People are amazingly small-minded about that kinda stuff and even if Apple did purchase Tesla, it still wouldn't fix the fact that people like to pin everything and anything to a single person.
 
cjcox said:
If Apple owned Tesla...

  1. The Tesla would cost 4x what it does now.
  2. The Tesla would come in a total of two configurations.
  3. New configurations would come out every 3 years or so.
  4. The power cord for the Tesla would be MagSafe and the default one would be 3ft long.
  5. You'd have to reboot the Tesla periodically while driving for the best experience.
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Not MagSafe anymore... it will have some sorta extra "dongle" that you would need to purchase to THOUSANDS of dollars! :D
 
i can see it now....the iCar.

only one pedal to do everything.
it bends if you lean against it or set something on top of it
it stops working if you touch it wrong
the batteries are not replaceable


sign me up! :D
 
Needed on here every time apple is mentioned

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Can't spell AppleButt[H]urt without Hard.
 
cjcox said:
If Apple owned Tesla...

  1. The Tesla would cost 4x what it does now.
  2. The Tesla would come in a total of two configurations.
  3. New configurations would come out every 3 years or so.
  4. The power cord for the Tesla would be MagSafe and the default one would be 3ft long.
  5. You'd have to reboot the Tesla periodically while driving for the best experience.
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It'll be a driveway ornamental brick after 6 months of ownership.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
I'd love to see Apple get Tesla. It'd be nice to not hear as much about Elmo Monk this and Elmo Monk that all the time like the guy is important or somehow the only person behind the stuff his companies are doing. Then again, it was totally the same with Steve Jobs or Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates or everything the government does being the president's fault. People are amazingly small-minded about that kinda stuff and even if Apple did purchase Tesla, it still wouldn't fix the fact that people like to pin everything and anything to a single person.
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Ever consider changing your name to CreepyTrollingUncle? :p

You are right, there is a tiny cult of personality surrounding Elon Musk. Nowhere near the levels of Steve Jobs mind you, but still a small cult of personality.

What you fail to realize is that it is for a completely different reason.

People like Elon Musk because he is a rarity in American business. He's not one of those well polished, over-confident business-school douchebags who run an organization without understanding its technical side. He's not a brilliant orator, but he doesn't have to be.

He is - on the other hand - someone who places substance over corporate spin. His responses to issues involve numerical analysis and a deep understanding of the product and how it is used, not just "you're holding it wrong".

He is one of us. One of the geeks. One of the engineers. One of the real people. These are the types of people who run businesses in mainland Europe, unlike the foolish Anglo-Saxon traditions of lawyers/bean counters/marketeers running everything. The types of people who bring us uncompromising designs and engineering excellence where the Anglo-Saxon bean counters bring us "badge engineering".

No one man is single-handedly responsible for any modern product. Even the simplest ones take cross-functional teams of many people to bring them to realization. Start talking about complex consumer electronics or cars and that figure grows exponentially.

That being said, if we had more business leaders like Elon Musk who are actually invested in what they are doing and have the technical background to understand it, not just the knowledge of how to spin it and sell it to the public, or how to best wrest low cost capital from investors, we would be in a much better place.

I - for one - would loathe to see the likes of Tesla ruined by Apple.

Ever since my beloved Saab went under, Tesla is IMHO the only car manufacturer in the world that makes a desirable product. No other vehicle is of any interest to me. If Apple took it over - however - I would lose interest completely. It would take it from a technologically interesting product into the world of corporate spin, secrecy and reality distortion fields that is Apple, and I would have no part of that.
 
QwertyJuan said:
EDIT - 17 MILLION Gold Version!

Kyle... you you PLEASE allow editing your comment in this forum? :(
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Editing in the news section was disabled for a very good reason (I guess, as I was not in Kyle's head).

news threads tend to turn into flame wars, that are only exacerbated when people edit things they previously posted.

It would be nice - however - to have a timer like some forums do. You know like: "Editable for 5 - 10 minutes, but not editable after that". That way I would be able to fix some of my notorious typos when I'm dumping my brain onto the keyboard, but it would still have some of the same effect of making people own what they have said.
 
Zarathustra[H];1041477514 said:
Ever consider changing your name to CreepyTrollingUncle? :p

You are right, there is a tiny cult of personality surrounding Elon Musk. Nowhere near the levels of Steve Jobs mind you, but still a small cult of personality.

What you fail to realize is that it is for a completely different reason.

People like Elon Musk because he is a rarity in American business. He's not one of those well polished, over-confident business-school douchebags who run an organization without understanding its technical side. He's not a brilliant orator, but he doesn't have to be.

He is - on the other hand - someone who places substance over corporate spin. His responses to issues involve numerical analysis and a deep understanding of the product and how it is used, not just "you're holding it wrong".

He is one of us. One of the geeks. One of the engineers. One of the real people. These are the types of people who run businesses in mainland Europe, unlike the foolish Anglo-Saxon traditions of lawyers/bean counters/marketeers running everything. The types of people who bring us uncompromising designs and engineering excellence where the Anglo-Saxon bean counters bring us "badge engineering".

No one man is single-handedly responsible for any modern product. Even the simplest ones take cross-functional teams of many people to bring them to realization. Start talking about complex consumer electronics or cars and that figure grows exponentially.

That being said, if we had more business leaders like Elon Musk who are actually invested in what they are doing and have the technical background to understand it, not just the knowledge of how to spin it and sell it to the public, or how to best wrest low cost capital from investors, we would be in a much better place.

I - for one - would loathe to see the likes of Tesla ruined by Apple.

Ever since my beloved Saab went under, Tesla is IMHO the only car manufacturer in the world that makes a desirable product. No other vehicle is of any interest to me. If Apple took it over - however - I would lose interest completely. It would take it from a technologically interesting product into the world of corporate spin, secrecy and reality distortion fields that is Apple, and I would have no part of that.
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You really believe what you just typed? Elon Musk is no different than any other business man. He has found a market (which is full of self-loathing yuppies) and is capitalizing on said market.

The morons who buy his cars don't even realize they are filled with toxic batteries, batteries which they had to make concessions in their own law in order to get the factory built. It almost went to Arizona.

If you don't think he is after the al-mighty dollar above all else then you really are a sucker.
 
Zarathustra[H];1041477517 said:
Editing in the news section was disabled for a very good reason (I guess, as I was not in Kyle's head).

news threads tend to turn into flame wars, that are only exacerbated when people edit things they previously posted.

It would be nice - however - to have a timer like some forums do. You know like: "Editable for 5 - 10 minutes, but not editable after that". That way I would be able to fix some of my notorious typos when I'm dumping my brain onto the keyboard, but it would still have some of the same effect of making people own what they have said.
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They do have the Preview Post button :D
 
XvMMvX said:
If you don't think he is after the al-mighty dollar above all else then you really are a sucker.
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Of course he is after the all mighty dollar. Everyone is.

Or at least he was. With $12 billion in the bank I don't think even doubling or tripling that would really have a significant impact on his lifestyle. I think there comes a point when you have a large enough amount of money where the incremental dollar earned becomes less important than the legacy you can leave and how you can impact the world with your products.

Like every other person in his shoes, he will still have to satisfy fiduciary responsibility in order to gain enough capital for his projects (unless he can finance them all himself), so the return on investment requirement is still going to be there.

That being said, just because you are earning money, doesn't mean you have to compromise on your ideals and visions. There is an entire "Conscious Capitalism" movement to this effect, with research showing that not only CAN you earn money by following these ideals, but long term the goodwill gained can actually drive profits higher, as opposed to short sighted corner cutting.

Also, the environmental concerns regarding Litium ION battery production have been greatly overblown. Not only do they have a relatively low environmental impact, but are also pretty recyclable. These aren't the old Ni-Cd batteries like used by Toyota hybrids (and even those weren't THAT bad)

Most of the anti battery hype has been spin published by industry groups and think tanks deeply involved with big oil and the traditional auto industry.
 
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