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Apple has a clear path to $1T in revenue by 2030
Come on guys, on what basis? Being too successful in terms of running the business astutely and thus having high margins/profits?
Globally Apple’s products are not dominant in terms of market share. They have plenty of room to grow while the Android and PC/Windows junk will still grab the majority purely due to low price points.
As for Home Automation aka HomeKit they need to focus more attention. Including routers, as that is the weak link in security since they exited.
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Peloton appoints new CEO, announces layoffs of 2,800 employees
You’re completely missing the point. But keep digging your hole. They’re bloated, and even after cutting 20% they’ll still be bloated.Xed said:
A startup is always small. Peloton is not a strap and well established over a decade with offices around the world and trying to grow into different areas. It's foolish to think it should be smaller than a startup.StrangeDays said:
Seemed pretty clear - EVs are a much more complicated business than exercise bikes with screens. If they had a staff of 10,000 that seems way, way too big.flydog said:
Not seeing the connection between Peloton and EV startups.cg27 said:So prior to the cuts Peleton has over 10,000 employees? If that’s the case they’re beyond bloated. There are successful EV startups that have fewer employees than that. This is just a dumb bike with some app and personal trainers, not exactly rocket science.
Even if the article means to say 2800 remain that’s still a ton of overhead, for what??
It’s not a connection, it’s an example, and an apt one. EVs are higher tech than exercise bikes for a hundred reasons. If they had 10,000 employees then management did a poor job managing their growth and costs.Xed said:
That's not a connection. That's, at best, a bad comparison.cg27 said:
An Electric Vehicle is orders of magnitude more complex to engineer and manufacture and certify. Hence the need for more employees. I could’ve used other industry examples but hopefully you get the point. It seems Peleton would need only a couple thousand at most. Even if they were planning more exercise machines.flydog said:
Not seeing the connection between Peloton and EV startups.cg27 said:So prior to the cuts Peleton has over 10,000 employees? If that’s the case they’re beyond bloated. There are successful EV startups that have fewer employees than that. This is just a dumb bike with some app and personal trainers, not exactly rocket science.
Even if the article means to say 2800 remain that’s still a ton of overhead, for what??
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Peloton appoints new CEO, announces layoffs of 2,800 employees
An Electric Vehicle is orders of magnitude more complex to engineer and manufacture and certify. Hence the need for more employees. I could’ve used other industry examples but hopefully you get the point. It seems Peleton would need only a couple thousand at most. Even if they were planning more exercise machines.flydog said:
Not seeing the connection between Peloton and EV startups.cg27 said:So prior to the cuts Peleton has over 10,000 employees? If that’s the case they’re beyond bloated. There are successful EV startups that have fewer employees than that. This is just a dumb bike with some app and personal trainers, not exactly rocket science.
Even if the article means to say 2800 remain that’s still a ton of overhead, for what??
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Peloton appoints new CEO, announces layoffs of 2,800 employees
So prior to the cuts Peleton has over 10,000 employees? If that’s the case they’re beyond bloated. There are successful EV startups that have fewer employees than that. This is just a dumb bike with some app and personal trainers, not exactly rocket science.
Even if the article means to say 2800 remain that’s still a ton of overhead, for what??
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'Apple Car' needs Machine Learning to make driving decisions fast enough
Yeah, agreed, lots of things seem great and feasible on paper, like Better Place’s swappable batteries tried ten years ago. Swappable is happening in certain parts of China now, and for ebikes, but still skeptical it’ll work everywhere.elijahg said:
There would need to be vast amounts of copper embedded into the road to make this work. It'll never be feasible, not unlike solar roads.lkrupp said:I am in agreement with other critics of self-driving cars. As long as humans remain in control of cars ,machine learning, artificial intelligence, sensors, etc. will be no match for the eccentricities, poor judgement, inattention, and road rage of homo sapien drivers.
On a more positive note, I read an article about an Israeli company who has contracted to build a one mile stretch of highway in Michigan with charging coils embedded in the pavement to allow wireless charging of EVs while they drive over the road. Of course the EVs will also be equipped with coils as well. If this turns out to be a practical solution to the range issue of EVs it will change everything.
