The note about car manufacturers these days being system integrator is the killer point.<p>Over 100 years now car industries have started, evolved, grown, multiplied, consolidated, failed, and experimented to today. Amazingly efficient at taking chunks of metal and plastic from around the world, turn it into a car in 17 hours in one of three or four locations in America, transport it to where you are so it can sit on a lot for another week before getting sold to you to take home.<p>That efficiency is what makes it amazing. And that efficiency  is going to be what kills it.<p>Apple will come in, make a better ipod as they want to do and support it as they can do.