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tyler82 said:

Xed said:

This from a company that has been filing the Model S design for a decade?

Don’t be so unfair. They also copied the Lotus design. 

That is an unfair comment considering the Model S is not copied from the Lotus design, you must be thinking of the first-generation Roadster.

lkrupp said:
And the post before mine is hilarious in thinking Apple will start selling parts for 5 and 6 year old devices.

Why is that hilarious to you? There are lot of poorer nations where a five and six-year-old device is what they can afford, especially in Africa and South Asia. You take the used iPhones in North America, Europe, South Korea, and Japan and you refurbish them and then sell them in Africa and South Asia.

waveparticle said:

You added the word sales to my insignificant sentence. What I meant is profit.  

I didn't add any words, what I quoted is what you said. You said sales. You said it is insignificant when compared to the sales of Shanghai and that is just not true. Now you are moving the goal post and saying profit. Well, the Tesla Model S and Model X are their highest profit margin vehicles and those are entirely done at the Fremont plant and they basically sell the same number of vehicles but the Fremont has the highest profit margin vehicles. See where this is going? Fremont makes more profit than Shanghai. Just take the L.

waveparticle said:

As a counter example, look at Tesla. Tesla almost went bankrupt a year ago. Its factory in Shanghai saved it and skyrocketed Elon Musk to become the richest person on earth. It is apparently due to China. 

Tesla almost went bankrupt in May of 2019. The Chinese factory didn't come online until December of that year and it didn't achieve scale of any significance until mid 2020, so no. Shanghai didn't save it. What saved Tesla was the Fremont factory being able to hit its targets by pulling out all of the stops and then achieving a weekly production rate of 6k model 3s by December of 2019.

waveparticle said:

The chip shortage will continue under Biden administration. Companies will not manufacture chips in US. They cannot make money. If they try to raise prices they need to double or triple the prices. And this route is not working. Democrats have no concept of capitalism.

How can they not make money when they are making good money from their manufacturing of processors in the USA right now? The whole idea of prices needing to be doubled or tripled would only happen if the entire process of making the processors was done by hand, which it clearly isn't.