Whenever the name Apple comes into context, all people can think of is, state of the art gadgets, elegancy and a considerable pocket pinch in the field of iPhones, iPads, Mac Books and iPods. Presently, there has been certain developments of Apple which shows that Apple is not ready to stop at simply hand held devices. In recent times, it has been seen that Apple has purchased quite a few domain names related to the automobile industry, like apple.auto, apple,cars and apple.car. Whois stated that all these purchases were made on the month of December in 2015. Whois records also show that all these registered domains, though at present inactive, was purchased through MarkMonitor Inc.
This may actually look to any outsider that Apple is now planning to get into the automobile industry with fancy state of the art cars, but in actuality, that may not be the case. These domains can also be the face of Apple’s range of in‐car systems, named CarPlay. Another explanation can be given that since there are rumors that Apple is moving into the car industry, many scammers can take advantage. Thus to stop it, they are simply buying off domains which can be used by scammers. Keeping all these into account, one can easily say that the buying off of the car related domains
by Apple is quite mysterious and nothing concrete can be concluded out of them. Tesla, one of the most reputed builders of state of the art cars, confirmed in a press conference that Apple is in fact planning to release an iCar. According to their chief executive Elon Musk, who said when interviewed by BBC, that it’s an “Open Secret” that a rival car is being manufactured by another company. He went on into saying that, Apple being the type of company it is, will definitely make an electric car to be reckoned with. On being questioned about the privacy of the company, he stated that when a company actually hires more than a thousand engineers for a single task, it really does not go unnoticed.
Hopefully, now the cloud has been removed for many Apple enthusiasts.
