"I would be highly suspect of the long-term prospect of getting into a low-margin, heavy-manufacturing [business]," Akerson said. "A lot of people who don't ever operate in it don't understand and have a tendency to underestimate."
Akerson, who must have listened to the podcast last night, went on to say the company was better off teaming with automakers and providing infotainment and connectivity systems. "I'd have turned over the infotainment and interconnectivity of every GM car" to Apple, Akerson said of his time at the helm of Detroit's biggest automaker.
"Apple better think carefully if they want to get into the hard-core manufacturing," Akerson told AN. "We take steel, raw steel, and turn it into car. They have no idea what they're getting into if they get into that."
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