How Apple Sank About $1 Billion a Year Into a Car It Never Built

> You see, you don't understand how R&D works. You don't. It's mostly wasted because you never know what will be useful and what not. It still *needs* to be wasted to roll the dice and hit something useful but it is not turned into something useful nonetheless. > Apple files over 2,000 patents a year and there is no way that you have done any sort of analysis on what funding supported those and what patents that derived from that funding have made/will make money. ..but you did ? What I say is common knowledge about science, most scientists won't have tiny percent of science that's actually applied, some bigger percentage of what turned out to be stepping stone to something, and most of it it has no practical use... yet. We still do it because *you never know what will be useful*, but that doesn't change the fact that most of it is still money spent on nothing useful. Might be useful in 10 years, sure, but might be not. Also apple file patents on literally everything, including "a method to round corners" so number of patents says nothing about usefulness. But you would know that if you knew anything about it.