Apple makes cars and lacks a good friend like "Foxconn"

When the smart phone can not be rolled, many mobile phone manufacturers, collectively roll the car, such as Apple, Xiaomi, Huawei have begun to build cars, in addition to OPPO, VIVO is also rumored to be secretly building cars.

In everyone's imagination, Apple, a "local tycoon" boss with talent, technology and money, should be the one with rapid progress and remarkable achievements, but it is not unexpected that Apple car manufacturing is constantly in trouble.

Previously rumored that Apple wanted to cooperate with Hyundai to build a car, and finally Hyundai did not agree, did not want to be Apple's foundry, and did not want to become Apple's second "Foxconn".

Later, it was rumored that Apple would cooperate with NINGDE Times and BYD, mainly in batteries, but Ningde Times and BYD finally seemed to reject Apple, because Apple asked these two manufacturers to build factories in the United States, and Ningde Times and BYD did not agree.

It is said that Apple has negotiated with at least 6 major component manufacturers in 2021, but in the end, these car companies without exception can not accept Apple's cooperation model, and the cooperation has not progressed.

For Apple, the strongest is product design, as well as software, services, experience, etc., and hardware manufacturing is Apple's weakest link.

So in the iPhone, iPad, etc., Apple chose to hand over the product to a manufacturer like Foxconn for OEM, as long as it is designed, and the hardware manufacturing is handed over to others.

In the car, Apple also thought so at first, thinking that as long as it is designed by itself, it will cooperate with the supply chain and hand over the manufacturing to the foundry.

But from the current situation, Apple's car manufacturing lacks a good friend like "Foxconn", and the most lacks an automobile manufacturing plant that is willing to be Apple's foundry.

Although Foxconn is also working hard to transform, wants to get involved in the field of smart cars, and even cooperates with other cars to launch smart cars, and is willing to help Apple make cars, apple did not look at it, it is also a bit funny.

It is foreseeable that the biggest difficulty in apple car manufacturing in the future is to find a partner like "Foxconn", after all, Apple's own car is really unrealistic.