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  • Tesla, BMW don't appear to be gearing up to join Apple's new CarPlay vision

    anantksundaramanantksundaram
    rob53 said:
    Tesla has a great system, something CarPlay won’t be able to fully replace. Other car manufacturers don’t really have a fraction of the computing and operating capabilities Tesla has. CarPlay can help the other companies but I don’t see it actually running the entire car. 
    I got my Model S three months ago. Magnificent vehicle. Better than anything else I’ve owned. Much of the software interface is great (although, font sizes for alerts are ridiculously small, and I find it surprising you can’t control font size). 

    It has a lot going for it. 

    However, their BT based music interface is an embarrassment. Buggy, laggy, clunky, can’t even change playlists if playing from an iPhone etc. (heck, a Hyundai Elantra that my kids had five years ago didn’t have these issues). Can’t stream from AppleMusic either. CarPlay would be an easy way to overcome these limitations. But it seems that Cook and Musk don’t play well together — there seems to be some bad blood there. 
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  • Tim Cook says return to office work plan is 'the mother of all experiments'

    anantksundaramanantksundaram
    ravnorodom said:
    darkvader said:
    COVID proved what we all really knew anyway:  If you work in an office, your job can be done without leaving the house.  It's time to end commuting for office workers forever.

    Hey, here's a thought:  Maybe it's time to mandate commuting pay.  If an employer decides a job can't be done from home, then that employer must pay the employee for time spent commuting.  That way people who really do have to be physically present get paid for ALL the time spent in work-related activities. 

    Totally agree for office workers. Especially with the gas price now, who wants to drive anyway.
    Yeah, let those idiot, low-wage grunts, you know, like the retail workers, the custodians, show up. They can afford the gas prices, those plebes. 

    Your post is Exhibit A for the casual arrogance, out-of-touchness, and condescension that passes off for elite social discourse today. 
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  • Tim Cook says return to office work plan is 'the mother of all experiments'

    anantksundaramanantksundaram
    Just tell them to get back to work and stop the whining/commiserating, Apple. 
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  • Apple is financing all the lending for the Apple Pay Later service

    anantksundaramanantksundaram
    8thman said:
    This is risky in the current financial environment.
    Inflation is taking a toll on consumers and some will start defaulting on payments. Timing of this is not good.
    Good companies -- and good investors -- don't make long term decisions based on the "current financial environment."

    Think about the ones who said that in 2008-09 (S&P bottomed out at 666 then, it's now over 6x that). For example, Tesla (under Musk) started during those years. Look where its market cap is now. 
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  • Apple is financing all the lending for the Apple Pay Later service

    anantksundaramanantksundaram
    Apple is lending its creditworthiness. There's plenty left. 

    This one will be big, five years from now. 
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