MplsP

I finally got an apple card last year before getting a new MBP. After using it for a year I’m mixed. I like the way it does the cash back and lets you automatically apply it when you make a payment but I find the wallet app management to be confusing and a pain in the butt to use. Making a payment is easy enough, but the Apple Card is not the only card I have or use and not the only part of my finances. If you want to use a program such as Quicken you have to go through a kludgy process to download the transactions and you can only do so after the statement has been issued. Until then you’re SOL. The fact that you can’t access the data from your iPad or Mac (or any other computer) also puts it way behind other cards in terms of management.

I've driven a Model Y for 2 years and I really wish it had CarPlay. The Tesla Nav software is very good and in many ways better than Apple Maps, and while I have a Spotify subscription the spotify interface in Tesla's sucks and CarPlay's text messaging functionality is still better than Tesla's, too. It seems that Elon has a thing against Apple, Though so unfortunately I don't think it will ever happen.

...and yet people complain that the EU is limiting Apple by forcing the use of USB C. It appears Apple is the one doing the limiting.

Can iPadOS 16 handle .ics attachments?

wood1208 said:

I respect Elon Musk but he is becoming promise big but not fulfil. $30K EV, Million mile battery, going to Mars and what not. Every vehicle manufacturer in world coming after Tesla EV and coming fast. What if Apple decide to go all in EV, than what ? 

I don’t disagree but look what has happened to EVs and the car market in general in the last 2 years -huge surge of interest in EVs drove demand way up. supply chain issues drove supply down across the industry. The average new car price is at $48k - higher than it’s ever been and car dealers are adding thousands of “additional dealer markup” to the price of new cars. Tesla has increased the price of their EVs to match the market - if they didn’t people would be criticizing them for missing out on the profits.

foregoneconclusion said:

lkrupp said:

Trash Musk if you like but so far Space X is the only way American astronauts can get to the ISS other than aboard a Russian rocket. Boeing’s Starliner is still in the testing stages. As for EVs, Tesla is the progenitor of the class. Yes, the big car makers will eclipse Tesla at some point but they will do it on the backs of Tesla’s pioneering efforts. Like Jobs did for personal computing, Musk showed the way on both EVs and reusable rockets. Also like Jobs, Musk is a quirky character with an ego the size of Mount Rushmore.


Theodore Roosevelt said, "Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much."

Tesla weren't really pioneers for rockets or electric vehicles. They had some good first-to-market ideas for commercializing those technologies in years past but didn't really possess anything on the tech side that was all that unique. That's why competitors can catch up or surpass them when they actually apply themselves to do so. Tesla looks fairly stagnant right now. 

Sounds kind of like Apple…

Elon Musk is eccentric if you want to put it nicely. He has many negative qualities, among them being perpetually overoptimistic. He has also done more to advance EVs than pretty much anyone else. Making statements about Tesla’s size vs Apple are completely in character for him, but what does it matter?