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Kara Swisher
Mm-hmm. Last question on innovation, self-driving cars. One of the companies you acquired is Drive AI, a self-driving startup. Apple is testing autonomous vehicles. It was, reportedly. Last year, Elon Musk said he offered to sell Tesla to Apple for 1/10 its value. And he said you wouldn’t even take a meeting with him.

Tim Cook
You know, I’ve never spoken to Elon, although I have great admiration and respect for the company he’s built. I think Tesla has done an unbelievable job of not only establishing the lead, but keeping the lead for such a long period of time in the EV space. So I have great appreciation for them. In terms of the work that we’re doing there, obviously, I’m going to be a little coy on that. The autonomy itself is a core technology, in my view. If you sort of step back, the car, in a lot of ways, is a robot. An autonomous car is a robot. And so there’s lots of things you can do with autonomy. And we’ll see what Apple does. We investigate so many things internally. Many of them never see the light of day. I’m not saying that one will not.

Kara Swisher
Would it be in the form of a car or the technology within a car?

Tim Cook
Yeah, I’m not going to answer that question.

Kara Swisher
I think it has to be a car. You can’t just do the tech — you’re not going to let — you’re not Google.

Tim Cook
We love to integrate hardware, software, and services, and find the intersection points of those because we think that’s where the magic occurs. And so that’s what we love to do. And we love to own the primary technology that’s around that.

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DevilDeVille: L. Ron Hubbard plaksutab.

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Sturm: ega Apple ei soovi Tesla näol taas sama reha otsa astuda. Autotööstuses ei piisa vaid heast ideest, ka teostus hästi toimiva tootmise näol on oluline.

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