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Comment by melling | Hacker News Reader

Good for Apple. It's great to see a company make big jumps in the consumer market. There are too many "me too" companies that won't take a chance and invent the next big thing. Can someone talk Steve Jobs into building a consumer robot? Someone needs to kickstart this market.

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I'd love to see how Apple would reinvent the car.

I can't find it now, but amidst the 3.3.1 kerfuffle someone blogged about what the iCar would be like. Here's what I remember from it:

If Apple made cars:

  * You'd only be able to drive them on Apple-certified roads
  * The cupholder would only accept a proprietary Apple cup
  * There would only be one pedal
  * You could have any color you want - provided it's brushed aluminium

IIRC, they were working on a project with BMW a few years ago.

Probably make it so you could only use Apple approved Petrol.

Or a 3x2x1" mac nano to replace the mac mini?

Did I say for just $199?

"Can someone talk Steve Jobs into building a consumer robot?"

Chances are he will talk you into buying an espresso machine instead. :)

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