My opinion:
“I don’t want to sound arrogant,”
This is critical, remember Ballmer dismissing the iPhone? and Blackberry... and telcos...<p>&quot;Apple doesn’t know how to handle a supply chain, or market its wares&quot; that could also mean they can disrupt and disruption points are associated with market changes (check vapor engine vs fuel or iPhone vs every other phone).<p>“We are going to build smart cars, but we also need to build smart roads, smart parking, smart public transportation systems, and more,” and this is the critical point, I&#x27;m old in tech years... and I like my clockwork internal combustion engines, I like to be able to drive them but the future people may not, getting what that future mass wants is the million dollar goal.
For example... people may not want a car but to get somewhere and for example in NY that sound more rational than in TX, can we build a company around providing &quot;Car as a service&quot; (you hear it first here from xlayn :p)<p>&quot;the Ford executives believe that the firm’s in-house tech expertise is under-appreciated&quot; or it can also mean they could leverage someone else expertise... (this is a question, I don&#x27;t really know the answer).<p>Last but not least... he want&#x27;s to get the company into something while keeping the strong advantage they have in what they are strong and not becoming a hipster startup (as in lets make a trillion dollar company around 140 characters but there is no revenue model)...<p>Edit: typos