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robin huber said:

Kinda like “having your head examined” before buying? 🤓

Suspect there is more to your message than meets the eye.

danox said:

jpellino said:

So Twitter was the preeminent microblogging platform, doing well enough to have shareholders getting earnings.
Musk buys it and starts pulling every lever he can find, many of which were clearly marked DO NOT TOUCH THIS LEVER.
Now the company is bleeding value, invisible to the public, and got its lunch eaten by Meta in less than a week of competition. 
Oh, and a new half-billion liability based on Lever #2.

Remind me how this reflects on the legendary genius of Musk?

You ain’t seen nothing yet by the end of the decade, the US will be the only area of the world where Tesla will have any significant marketshare, Japan, South Korea, and China will be but footnotes, Europe, in the end will be single digits Because of the German companies and the rest of the world aside from Australia, and New Zealand quite simply just can’t afford them. 

Also, note the fit and finish still is crap, (that old CNC dealership location next to the 210 freeway in Upland, California is now occupied by Tesla‘s and they seem to be fixing a lot of new Tesla‘s direct from the factory at this location before shipping them to the new owners), the early adopters still don’t care, but the second and third wave adopters will, particularly with more choices for sale by competitors, and these competitors will have Apple CarPlay and Android CarPlay, and it does make a difference.

Not sure that any of this is correct. Tesla has advantages currently that are giving it time to go much further into unoccupied territory and to establish a significant lead.

Tesla is diversifying manufacturing centres to meet the particular needs of large local markets, to minimise shipping costs and protect it against de-globalisation. Tesla manufactures, apart of course from in the US, in China for the local, asian and Australian/New Zealand markets and in Germany for Europe. They will likely soon be manufacturing in Mexico for both the North American and South American markets, in India for a potentially huge market and possibly in Indonesia for the world's 4th largest population centre. These latter three Gigafactories however, will produce very different vehicles to those on the market currently. They'll be smaller and much cheaper, built with less expensive batteries.

With each iteration of Gigafactory, build quality improves. In North America you would not be exposed to vehicles built in China and Germany but the teething problems associated with the Fremont factory don't exist. The Texas factory build quality will be out-of-site next to earlier locations.

Tesla is highly vertically integrated. They rely still on outside suppliers but to a much less extent than others. As examples, even some chip manufacture and mining and refinement of critical minerals is or is-going in-house. Tesla has borne the myriad issue of producing an operating system for their cars and are not burdened with that quasi-operating system android as many others are. Volvo will be building their next generation of cars, the EX series with android as the driver facing OS. The cars themselves are beautiful but are let down by laggy, buggy and insecure higher-level software. (I'd buy an EX30 or eX90 but for android.) Apple could buy the publicly listed Volvo and gain a huge head start in its automotive ambitions.

The austere interior design of Tesla cars was predicated from the beginning on full self-driving obviating the need for driver operated controls and of course, whereas this has not been forthcoming, it will be eventually.

The first production-ready Cybertruck have been built in Texas, it will be interesting to see how it is accepted.

An afterword - there is one other Tesla product that Musk has referred to explicitly that is yet to see fruition - a Gigafactory for building factories. Likely products of these will include the Optimus robot and Tesla flying machines.

I've never had more beautiful, eligible young women following me than since the takeover. I hadn't even altered my 60s year old looking profile pic and I don't have a blue tick mark. Must be my (very) hidden charm coming to the surface.

bloggerblog said:

I once had my cat sleep under my car’s brake pedal during a road trip 

...and what joy it gave you when you had to brake hard to avoid that deer ahead.

My brother, an experienced pilot of turbine powered helicopters who was trained in the airforce, once demonstrated to me, in a chopper on the ground, how little time there is to correct some problems, seconds in one case. Experience counts for so much in flying helicopters.

Edit: Grammar