For mobile phone manufacturers, the App store is a very common thing, almost every mobile phone manufacturer will bring its own App store in the system, and Apple's App Store is one of the important sources of its revenue. But if future cars will be like today's mobile phones, equipped with the manufacturer's own app store, will you feel new?
Tesla car engine system
Recently, a person who is said to know tesla's relevant internal affairs said that Tesla may be developing an app store similar to Apple, which allows car owners to download and install apps by themselves, imitate Apple or Android smartphone operations, and create a software and hardware ecological chain of Tesla's own brand. The Tesla investor, Sawyer Merritt, retweeted a video on Twitter of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs introducing the app store, saying: "Rumor has it that something similar will soon appear on something with four wheels that begin with a T. In addition, there is news that Tesla has been developing its own app store since May 2021 and will officially launch before Cyberteruck is delivered.
Tesla Model 3
It wouldn't be surprising if Tesla did eventually launch an app store, because Musk had already said that Tesla wasn't just a car manufacturer, it was also a software company. From the perspective of stock price or price-earnings ratio, Tesla is no longer like an ordinary car manufacturer, more like a technology giant similar to Apple and Amazon. In terms of software, whether it is FSD or Autopilot, it is the performance of Tesla's strong competitiveness at present. In addition, tesla after the new AMD Ryzen chip, the vehicle computing power is further improved, and even some large games can be run, and these have laid the foundation for its launch of the app store