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Apple Considered Making a Car or Camera Before the iPhone

Posted August 3, 2012 at 4:58pm by iClarified · 15656 views
Apple considered making a car or camera before the iPhone, said Phil Schiller, Apple's Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing during his trial testimony today.

New York Times report Nick Bilton tweets:

Phil Schiller on stand said before making the iPhone, there was discussion of Apple making a camera or a car -- "crazy stuff."

Although it sounds crazy, Mickey Drexler, CEO of J. Crew and board member at Apple, had already revealed that Steve Jobs wanted to design a car.

"Look at the car industry; it's a tragedy in America. Who is designing the cars?" Drexler said during Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference this week. "Steve's dream before he died was to design an iCar."