Foxxcon and Inventec manufacture the iPod, iPads, iPhones.

Apple has over 150 companies that manufacture for them.

At that point he may feel that he’s done the interesting work of turning the car world on its ear and it’s time to let someone do the routine work of running a big car company.

It’s hard to know what his ambitions are. Does he want to do a lot of very innovative things or does he want to built Tesla into a major corporation? I suspect he likes the innovation stuff a lot more that running a huge business and will either hand off running Tesla to someone else or sell it to another car company in order to free up his time to tackle something more interesting.

Ford is well-positioned to grab the affordable EV market with the way they designed their Focus assembly lines. They can convert an existing line from fuel to EV in a couple of days. If someone drops a more affordable battery on the market look for that to happen.

Larger car companies have better established supply chains and much larger advertising budgets. Tesla is spending nothing on advertising.

tesla should buy apple instead

I know he was making a butt-ugly yacht toward the end of his life. Not everything he touched turned to gold….

Buying speculative stock is like buying a lottery ticket with higher odds of winning but a lower payout.

Neither are good ways to attempt to build wealth.

Apple buying Tesla would probably be a terrible thing for Tesla. Apple is a design and sales company. They don’t manufacture. They don’t know cars.

There’s a chance that Tesla will develop into one of the world’s leading car manufacturers. They’ve got a world leading product and a corporate strategy that gives them a shot at extreme success. They’ve created an incredible brand name.

That said, it’s a long shot. Not where one would want to invest a large part of their net worth or where they would want to invest for retirement.