Comments on: VW, Apple discuss cooperation; Jaguar consults with company

By: Got Handling?

Got Handling? — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:53:19 +0000

Why is VW’s rep for reliability awful in the US and brilliant in Europe? Is it ’cause you guys are using the wrong-sized spanners or what?

By: AMGoff

AMGoff — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:23:03 +0000

bad mouth apple all you want… not only do they know how to run a business, but they know how to make and market products people want to buy (and will sometimes stand in very long lines to buy). I bought in at $14 a share.. several years and a couple of splits later their price per share sits at ten times that. A company with a market cap of around $115,000,000,000 has to be doing something right.

By: AgmLauncher

AgmLauncher — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:42:11 +0000

You mean they’re not the same company????????

Apple and VW pander to such similar markets of people it’s scary.

By: Deanster

Deanster — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:10:59 +0000

^ LOL!!

By: RicardoHead

RicardoHead — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:23:03 +0000

My post referenced your midwestern housewives, gays, the cost and quality of the sex toys each uses, and how one group thinks its bowel movements are made of gold.

By: Deanster

Deanster — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:20:57 +0000

My deleted post said something about midwestern American suburban housewives.

Fight the MAN! YEAH!!!

By: c4Menace

c4Menace — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:43:09 +0000

Sucks I dont like Ipods.. I do like VW/Audi

Lith-Ion batteries suck bigtime and only last 16 months, their chessey Toshiba hard drives fail all the time, and they scratch easy. Oh yea, they have 120% markup.

If your on the market for an mp3 player go creative and pick up a nice zen for under 200$.. they sound better, support more formats, and last allot longer.

By: A4

A4 — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:30:30 +0000

what the hell does apple know about building cars? ooh wow here you go VW free ipod cable if you put our logo on your car. FANCY! iPhone integration, ipod integration, not enough at all to justify an alliance. Apple has nothing to do with cars and it should stay that way. Its like having microsoft team up with GM so you can play solitaire in your hummer.

By: RicardoHead

RicardoHead — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:19:45 +0000

By the way, I do wish it were

..CHRysler
and APPLE.

By: RicardoHead

RicardoHead — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:07:33 +0000

Guess Deanster and I both got edited out of here by the politically correct cowards. This site must be run out of california

By: Carguy5

Carguy5 — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:57:46 +0000

Well they should be more clear on what they mean cuz it says vw and apple are producing a car together which can mean anything really.

By: Passizzle

Passizzle — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:21:56 +0000

They are not working on an actual carr. Apple will be working with car companies to improve user interfaces so we are not stuck with future renditions of iDrive or the like. This is all about user experience inside the vehicle.

By: Cyclone of Red

Cyclone of Red — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:11:35 +0000

I dunno…I always associated Apple and VW with hippies, not homos…..

….oh wait, they’re the same thing. Game on.

By: maximus

maximus — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:04:35 +0000

Ricardohead: 1
VW: 0

By: autonut

autonut — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:10:23 +0000

Now I know why I had to replace all iPods that I purchased for my children in 2003: they have famous VW quality built in!

By: AMGoff

AMGoff — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:47:18 +0000

as long as they were badged apple and not vw… then that would make it an American car.. which means I could buy one…. hmmm… a MacCoupe, MacCoupePro, MacSedan, MacSedanPro… If they were like their computers, I’d buy one… easy to use, just works, and lasts forever.

By: buenos

buenos — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:40:48 +0000

jJayC08 – Stats come from those who responded in an identifiable manner in the last Canadian Census. When you think about it, it makes sense. Even if closeted, the demo still has fewer kids, and therefore a higher level of disposable income, as a group they tend to have higher education levels and higher earning potentials than average. Similar information can also be found in CARD (Canadian Advertising Rates and Data). It also shows that the demographic has a higher number of “early-adopters” as in people who tend to purchase the newest first, especially technology, as well as being image oriented, hence the higher per-capita spending on luxury items.

By: Karkat

Karkat — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:25:37 +0000

He is rite, they do have a great deal of disposable income, partly due to them not having any children to worry about. I do not associate apple or VW with being gay. So im not sure why you said that. Perhaps cause apple is based in San Fran, or near it? Who cares anyways. I think it sounds like a neat idea. Something different.

By: jJayC08

jJayC08 — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:48:07 +0000

^ Buenos… I’m not to sure about gays being the best demographic to go after, as most of them are in the closet as of now…

Just out of curiousity, where do you get your figures, highest disposable income, spent per capita on luxury items?

I agree though, it would be neat to see an Ipod designed car.

By: buenos

buenos — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:43:34 +0000

Gayest car known to mankind? Not a bad demographic to go after. Highest disposable income, most spent per capita on luxury items, etc., etc. It’s a demographic that every volume automaker wants.

Orientation aside, Apple has brilliant design (iDrive, COMMAND, MMU could all take some lessons from Apple interfaces), and it would be fascinating to see what they come up with in a partnership with Volkswagen

By: shahedc

shahedc — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:20:55 +0000

Will the steering wheel look like the iPod dial interface?

~shahedc
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By: jJayC08

jJayC08 — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:05:15 +0000

Sounds like the Toyota-Sony partnership. I’m sort of sick of everything having an “i” added to the beginning of it.

By: RicardoHead

RicardoHead — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:56:51 +0000

And together, VW/Apple will bring you the gayest car known to mankind.