Tony Fadell Ungkap Steve Jobs Pernah Ajak Diskusi Soal Bikin Mobil

Mantan Senior Vice President of iPod, Tony Fadell, mengungkapkan bahwa ide awal proyek mobil listrik Apple yang sudah dimulai setahun lalu itu berasal dari almarhum Steve Jobs.

Hal itu diungkapkan Tony Fadell dalam wawancaranya bersama Bloomberg. Ia menyebutkan dalam wawancara bahwa Steve Jobs pernah berdiskusi dengannya soal merancang mobil dan memikirkan fitur-fiturnya.

“We had a couple of walks,” Fadell said in an interview with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang. The pair posed hypothetical questions to each other, such as: “If we were to build a car, what would we build? What would a dashboard be? And what would this be? What would seats be? How would you fuel it or power it?”

Pendiri Nest yang kini dimiliki Alphabet, induk perusahaan Google, menyebutkan bahwa iPhone dan mobil modern memiliki kesamaan. Hal yang sulit dikatakannya adalah konektivitas dan bagaimana merancang mobil yang melaju tanpa awak.

“A car has batteries; it has a computer; it has a motor; and it has mechanical structure. If you look at an iPhone, it has all the same things. It even has a motor in it,” said Fadell, who’s now the chief executive officer of Alphabet’s Nest home appliances company. “But the hard stuff is really on the connectivity and how cars could be self-driving.”

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[source site_name = “Bloomberg” site_url = “http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-04/steve-jobs-considered-building-an-apple-car-in-2008”][/source]