Opinion: My money is still against an Apple-branded car in 2025<div class="feat-image">
</div><p>Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has a good (if imperfect) track-record, but his latest note – in which he predicts that <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2018/08/14/kuo-ar-glasses-2020-apple-car-3-5-years/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an Apple Car will go on sale[/url] sometime in the 2023 to 2025 timeframe – needs to be viewed in rather a different light to his usual ones.</p>
<p>Kuo has excellent supply chain contacts, giving him good insight into Apple’s short- and medium-term plans. Once a product is actually in production, the complexity of Apple’s supply chain means it’s hard to keep secrets.</p>
<p>But even before volume production begins, manufacturing lines need to be set up, molds need to be created, test-runs need to be carried out. So suppliers will be in a position to know a lot about Apple’s medium-term plans, and Kuo’s contacts can begin feeding him solid information …</p>
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Opinion: My money is still against an Apple-branded car in 2025