I still don't buy Apple is going to make a completely in-house EV. Historically, Apple only innovates in market categories in which the incumbents suck (usually through an order of magnitude improvement in the UI/UX). But Tesla doesn't suck...it's done a pretty damn good job. A partnership with Tesla makes more sense.
The problem is that 90% of their 2 mil song catalog is still only CD Quality (16 bit / 44.1 Khz). 256 / 320 Kbps vs. CD Quality is pretty hard to differentiate for most people. But 256 / 320 Kbps vs. 24 bit / 96 Khz should be fairly obvious.
And of course, you need a good pair of headphones.
Great article. IMO, CVD is the most promising scalable, manufacturing method, but the following advances have to happen:
- Able to grow Graphene of arbitrary thickness on a wide variety of surfaces
- Achieving CVD at low temperature
- Control of grain size, ripples, doping level, and number of layers
- Coming up with a cost-effective way to handle to the Transfer step, or eliminating it entirely
As the current market for graphene applications is driven by the production of this material, there is a clear hierarchy in how soon the applications will reach the user or consumer. Those that use the lowest- grade, cheapest and most available material will be the first to appear, probably in a few years, and those which require the highest, electronic- quality grades or biocompatibility may well take decades to develop.Also, because developments in the last few years were extremely rapid,graphene’s prospects continue to improve.