Opinion: Apple should buy Tesla — and make Elon Musk CEO

[psycopk]

 

 

MarketWatch photo illustration/Getty Images

 

By

VivekWadhwa

 

Apple Inc.’s dismal earnings announcement shows why it badly needs to rethink its innovation model and leadership.

Its last breakthrough innovation was the iPhone — which was released in 2007. Since then, Apple AAPL, +0.17%   has simply been tweaking its componentry, adding faster processors and more advanced sensors, and playing with its size — making it bigger in the iPad and smaller in the Apple Watch.

Chief Executive Tim Cook is probably one of the most competent operations executives in the industry but is clearly not a technology visionary. Apple needs another Steve Jobs to reinvent itself; otherwise it will join the ranks of HP and Compaq.

Read: The rise and decline of Apple in one chart

That Steve Jobs may be Elon Musk — who has proven to be the greatest visionary of our times.

In the same period that Apple released the iPhone and successors, Musk developed two generations of world-changing electric vehicles, perfected a new generation of battery technologies and released first-generation autonomous driving capabilities. And that was in Tesla Motors Inc. TSLA, +0.43%  .

Read: Tesla offers free trial of fancier autopilot features

In his other company, SpaceX, Musk developed a spacecraft, docked it with the International Space Station and returned with cargo. He’s launched two rockets to space that have made vertical landings back on Earth — one on a helicopter-like pad and another on a ship in the ocean.

Read: Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans unmanned Mars mission as soon as 2018

Musk is also developing the Hyperloop, a high-speed transportation system in which pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors. In discussions that I had with him in 2012, Musk told me that his ambition was to build a space station and retire on Mars. He wasn’t joking, I expect he will do this.

Read: Elon Musk’s hyperloop fantasy may be more realistic than we think

Apple has reportedly been developing an electric vehicle because it sees a car as an iPhone on wheels. It is conceivable that it will demonstrate something like this in the next five to 10 years.

But Tesla already has this technology — and it is amazing. I have likened my Tesla Model S to a spaceship that travels on land. I consider it to be better than any Apple product — because it is more complex, elegant, and better designed than anything that Apple offers.

Read: Why the Apple car may never launch

Apple should buy Tesla and appoint Elon Musk as CEO.

Would Musk be interested in being part of Apple when Tesla is on top of the world? Tesla just received nearly $20 billion in orders for its Model 3 — a record for any product in history. Musk reportedly turned down an acquisition offer from Google in 2013 when it was on the verge of bankruptcy. Why would he consider such an offer now, from Apple?

My guess is that he would do this — if he were offered the chief executive role.

 

A combination of an operations executive such as Cook and a visionary such as Musk would be formidable. Apple’s vast resources would allow Tesla to scale up its operations to deliver the nearly 400,000 orders it has received for the Model 3. Tesla would be able to leverage Apple’s global distribution network and incorporate many new technologies. Musk would be able to pursue his dream projects while Cook worried about delivery and detail.

And Cook would get the visionary that Apple badly needs, someone who is even a cut above Steve Jobs. The markets would rejoice and take Apple stock to a level higher than anything it has seen before.

Consider that Tesla’s market cap of $33 billion is eminently affordable by Apple, which has reserves of more than $200 billion. And Apple lost $47 billion in valuation with its earnings announcement Tuesday, which is more than it would likely cost to acquire Tesla.

Read: Where Apple’s miss leaves the shares

This could be a marriage made in heaven. We would get world-changing innovations as well as our space colonies.

Also read: Elon Musk is doing for executive compensation what he did for electric cars

Vivek Wadhwa is a fellow at the Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and director of research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. He writes on wadhwa.com

[psycopk]

if this happens.. elon will rule for next 30years...

[aragorn]

enduku elon inno koda kill chesthanaka vuncle, google shld buy it also google shld buy twitter n groupon 

[barney]

5 hours ago, psycopk said:

 

 

MarketWatch photo illustration/Getty Images

 

By

VivekWadhwa

 

Apple Inc.’s dismal earnings announcement shows why it badly needs to rethink its innovation model and leadership.

Its last breakthrough innovation was the iPhone — which was released in 2007. Since then, Apple AAPL, +0.17%   has simply been tweaking its componentry, adding faster processors and more advanced sensors, and playing with its size — making it bigger in the iPad and smaller in the Apple Watch.

Chief Executive Tim Cook is probably one of the most competent operations executives in the industry but is clearly not a technology visionary. Apple needs another Steve Jobs to reinvent itself; otherwise it will join the ranks of HP and Compaq.

Read: The rise and decline of Apple in one chart

That Steve Jobs may be Elon Musk — who has proven to be the greatest visionary of our times.

In the same period that Apple released the iPhone and successors, Musk developed two generations of world-changing electric vehicles, perfected a new generation of battery technologies and released first-generation autonomous driving capabilities. And that was in Tesla Motors Inc. TSLA, +0.43%  .

Read: Tesla offers free trial of fancier autopilot features

In his other company, SpaceX, Musk developed a spacecraft, docked it with the International Space Station and returned with cargo. He’s launched two rockets to space that have made vertical landings back on Earth — one on a helicopter-like pad and another on a ship in the ocean.

Read: Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans unmanned Mars mission as soon as 2018

Musk is also developing the Hyperloop, a high-speed transportation system in which pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors. In discussions that I had with him in 2012, Musk told me that his ambition was to build a space station and retire on Mars. He wasn’t joking, I expect he will do this.

Read: Elon Musk’s hyperloop fantasy may be more realistic than we think

Apple has reportedly been developing an electric vehicle because it sees a car as an iPhone on wheels. It is conceivable that it will demonstrate something like this in the next five to 10 years.

But Tesla already has this technology — and it is amazing. I have likened my Tesla Model S to a spaceship that travels on land. I consider it to be better than any Apple product — because it is more complex, elegant, and better designed than anything that Apple offers.

Read: Why the Apple car may never launch

Apple should buy Tesla and appoint Elon Musk as CEO.

Would Musk be interested in being part of Apple when Tesla is on top of the world? Tesla just received nearly $20 billion in orders for its Model 3 — a record for any product in history. Musk reportedly turned down an acquisition offer from Google in 2013 when it was on the verge of bankruptcy. Why would he consider such an offer now, from Apple?

My guess is that he would do this — if he were offered the chief executive role.

 

A combination of an operations executive such as Cook and a visionary such as Musk would be formidable. Apple’s vast resources would allow Tesla to scale up its operations to deliver the nearly 400,000 orders it has received for the Model 3. Tesla would be able to leverage Apple’s global distribution network and incorporate many new technologies. Musk would be able to pursue his dream projects while Cook worried about delivery and detail.

And Cook would get the visionary that Apple badly needs, someone who is even a cut above Steve Jobs. The markets would rejoice and take Apple stock to a level higher than anything it has seen before.

Consider that Tesla’s market cap of $33 billion is eminently affordable by Apple, which has reserves of more than $200 billion. And Apple lost $47 billion in valuation with its earnings announcement Tuesday, which is more than it would likely cost to acquire Tesla.

Read: Where Apple’s miss leaves the shares

This could be a marriage made in heaven. We would get world-changing innovations as well as our space colonies.

Also read: Elon Musk is doing for executive compensation what he did for electric cars

Vivek Wadhwa is a fellow at the Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and director of research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. He writes on wadhwa.com

just the other way avvuddemo few years lo elon will buy apple and will start ' Lets make apple great again' campaign

[ARYA]

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[Popkatapetapotapulti]

they both are working for a common goal...moving forward tesla may buy apple but not the other way 

[VizagRocks]

sare. edho okati seyyandi. sachipothunnam eedi peru vini.

Apple tho paatu, SpaceX, Solarcity kooda run chesthaada, separate ga?

Apple investors g lo thanthaaru.

[sattipandu]

15 minutes ago, VizagRocks said:

sare. edho okati seyyandi. sachipothunnam eedi peru vini.

Apple tho paatu, SpaceX, Solarcity kooda run chesthaada, separate ga?

Apple investors g lo thanthaaru.

nee baadha endira bhai

news lo veedi bhajana chesthunnarana?

u also do something like that, we will also do ur bhajana

[tom bhayya]

1 minute ago, sattipandu said:

nee baadha endira bhai

news lo veedi bhajana chesthunnarana?

u also do something like that, we will also do ur bhajana

agravarnam vaadaa musk

[sattipandu]

3 minutes ago, tom bhayya said:

agravarnam vaadaa musk

eee point naaku teliyadandi babu gopporeee, maanchi point chepparu 

inka mana ambedkar andukuntadu

[VizagRocks]

20 minutes ago, sattipandu said:

nee baadha endira bhai

news lo veedi bhajana chesthunnarana?

u also do something like that, we will also do ur bhajana

nee badha endhi ra.

[VizagRocks]

19 minutes ago, tom bhayya said:

agravarnam vaadaa musk

so musk is a bit like that, ofcourse. he used South African resources, fled compulsory military service, did some coding, sold before his company tanked.

and is now pretending to be a genius who can make electric powertrains, rocket engines, and batteries.

Public is so stupid.

[sattipandu]

3 minutes ago, VizagRocks said:

nee badha endhi ra.

nee baadha teluskodame naa baadha guruva.....

[VizagRocks]

Just now, sattipandu said:

nee baadha teluskodame naa baadha guruva.....

stick to topic ra. thokkalo nenu anon gaadini.

[sattipandu]

1 minute ago, VizagRocks said:

stick to topic ra. thokkalo nenu anon gaadini.

nenu bhi anonymous ey aythe endhi