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Wasn’t that Tokyo piece amazing!
it really is incredible what you can do with a iPhone camera these days. 

Wasn’t that Tokyo piece amazing!
it really is incredible what you can do with a iPhone camera these days. 

tmay said:

anantksundaram said:

tmay said:

rotateleftbyte said:

lkrupp said:

 I’ve been an Apple user since 1982 and have experienced firsthand the negativity and hatred of Apple by so many pundits, analysts, and self appointed experts over the years.

It is just the same w.r.t. Electric Vehicles. There are big players behind a lot of anti-EV rhetoric possibly Big-oil/coal. They are spending huge amounts of money to discredit EV's as a whole and in particular Tesla.

There will be people looking at making billions taking down Apple, Amazon and the rest.

The big automakers are committing hundreds of billions of dollars to electrics, and in case you were unaware, half of the Koch Brothers died yesterday. The oil industry is still a powerful entity, but coal is on its deathbed for power production.

Of note, Tesla isn't in a strong position to fight off the big automakers. Case in point is the Porsche Taycan, which competes head on with the the Model S, Jaguar iPace which competes withe the Model X, and a number of Model 3 competitors, especially the Nissan Leaf.

The I-Pace is is pretty much dead man walking, at this point.

As to the Taycan, I'll hold my verdict until it has spent a few months in real-world conditions. And, the "big" automakers have so far repeatedly and badly over-promised/under-delivered. I don't know whether and how long Tesla will last (I am guessing they'll bought out at some point by the likes of a Google), but they do seem to be quite far ahead of the EV game as of now.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastianblanco/2019/07/23/falling-model-s-and-x-sales-mean-teslas-margins-are-getting-squeezed/#46ebad932ab8

"The Wall Street Journal reports on sales data from the Dominion Cross-Sell report, which shows that Model S registrations were down 54 percent in California last quarter. California is Tesla's largest market, with 40 percent of Model S sales taking place in that state in 2018. Model X sales were also down 40 percent in California in the second quarter of 2019, Dominion found. The WSJ says that changes to which Tesla models are the most popular are going to, "threaten Tesla's growth goals and profit ambitions."

I would be impressed if Tesla could survive on Model 3 sales alone. They can't.

There were many whispers in the Telsa fandomsphere (of which I am a member) that Tesla internally debated whether to cease production of the S & X to focus more on the 3 and the upcoming Y.  The Y should be a bigger seller than the 3 as it is a crossover rather than a sedan like the 3.  Also by the end of the year the Shanghai factory should be online but of course bulk production will take some time after that.
Many are fairly confident Telsa should do well.  If you don't feel the same way that is totally fine - it is not really up to us after all :-)

I wonder if someone will start making cases for Apple Cards. 

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