A computer without software is an expensive paperweight. I mean, really, how did you think GP was playing the full screen video in the first place?
You fail to recognise the difference between having to install software to add functionality, and having to install software to replace existing software which was functionally screwed to begin with. It's the difference between installing an Office suite (not shipped by default in nearly every OS), and installing a media player (no OS is shipped without one).
15 years ago the suggestion that after market software to replace Apple's default would have been laughed and mocked. Hell 15 years ago we actively installed Apple's media player (Quicktime) on other platforms. They have fallen far.
I know. This is a clear sign that gay marriage laws aren't working. Wait what? What were we talking about? I mean none of the things you mentioned are related to net neutrality, so I assume you're talking about repealing the 9th amendment. Wait what?
I know right? Why do we even have speed limits on the road. It's not like a horse drawn carriage can do any more than 20km/h. Nothing ever changes. We as a species are in a perfectly stable equilibrium. We certainly don't need any regulations, every regulation anyone could ever need already exists.
Or maybe... and just hear me out... Maybe the world has changed, corporate interests have changed, and the reason the regulations were brought in to begin with was that the first 28+ years of the internet was actively under threat from corporate actors.
If I sound like I'm mocking you condescendingly, I am.
You don't seem to understand the difference between "additional software", and software replacing already existing software from Apple which has some major design shortcomings.
I mean,... itâ(TM)s an operating system, not a tardis.
No. It's an ecosystem. Apple products always have been. The idea that if you stick with Apple for everything then everything works together, and above all it just works. No tweaking, modifying, adapting, or smashing your head against keyboards in frustration. People don't run OSX because it's a good OS.
Remember when OS X first came out and no one could print anything?
I remember Apple compatible printers worked really well compared to the install a 300MB "driver" windows equiavlent.
Or all those years when âoeTextEditâ was your best option, until you installed Word?
I remember Office:Mac being far superior to the windows counterpart in both functionality and in use, precisely what I expect from something on the Apple platform. Mind you you're still not replacing existing functionality. But then if you did actually look for what the Apple ecosystem provided over the rest of the world you'd run into something like Keynote, which shitted all over Powerpoint (even the Mac version) from day 1.
Or all those years when OS X did not ship with a web browser, and step 1 post-install was to download Camino, Firefox, or Internet Explorer?
Yep. But we weren't replacing existing functionality by installing that software now were we? In fact when Safari came out it seemed to instantly eat everyone's lunch, precisely what I expect from something on the Apple platform.
Perhaps youâ(TM)re confusing your memories of OS X
Speaking of memories, since the GP suggested installing VLC to cover the shortcomings of Apple's solution, you want to really know what I remember? I remember installing Quicktime on Windows because at the time a tool from the Apple ecosystem didn't just wipe the floor with 3rd party software on Apple's platform, it wiped the floor with 3rd party software across the entire IT industry.
At least that was until what I'm going to start calling "the great dumbing" that seems to have infested Apple like a virus.
In other words your preferred laptop computer is a 2005 Dell Inspiron
Err yes. I had one (2004 actually), it was an awesome machine for its time.
and your ideal mobile phone runs Symbian and has an analog headphone jack because digital connectors and Bluetooth are the work of Lucifer
Err non-sequitur. Except for the bit about the headphone jack. My ideal phone definitely has one of those, along with Bluetooth that supports apt-x for decent audio,... unlike the iPhone.
Did you know that if you repeat the above action while pressing the option key you also get a parallel printer port, a PS2 connector,
Why would I want that? I don't have anything that connects to those ports. They aren't relevant in this day and age, unlike say analogue headphones and USB-A.
your display shrinks down to 8 inches and a resolution of 800x600 pixels
non-sequitur.
and the computer automatically downgrades the operating system to Windows 2000?
You mean upgrade right? I'm running windows 10 you insensitive clod.
Typically, the narrative would be about evil white male scientists, paving over the sacred native lands to install their phallic, oppressive astronomy instruments.
Only if this is your first debate and you've never looked into this before. Scientists get pushback for many reasons, but "sacred native lands" rarely has support beyond a few local indigenous nutjobs these days.
I thought the EU required basic protections of things like free speech
They do. No one is being arrested or impeded from speaking in any way they want. The EU also places restrictions on things like the rule of law. e.g. the Spanish Constitution which with a ruling from the high court upholds the fact that a local referendum on a national government issue is illegal. The only people who are being arrested are Catalan officials and people attempting to hold the poll, something that would probably come with the EU's blessing in upholding the law.
in addition to granting Brussels the power to regulate eggplant purpleness!
The EU never regulated any eggplant colours, but since I assume you're taking a jab at the supposed banana bendyness regulations let me give you a non-Daily Mail version of what happened.
The EU never regulated nor banned any banana of any shape. What they did do was regulate how member states may be describe and market banana grades and qualities. They did this because some member states with climates not suited to growing bananas were growing them and marketing them to their own people with certain quality descriptions that didn't meet any international trade requirements. Note the key words there "international trade". All the EU rules did was force member states to describe bananas in the same way locally as they would be required to if they sold them to e.g. the USA.
A law saying you can't lie to your local population about the quality of goods sounds quite reasonable to me. As for the regulations on fruit, all EU regulations on fruit are matched to those for international trade. So if Brussels restricted some food, chances are it's the fault of a non-EU country.
I'm not going to accuse you of anything, but on the notch..., yes it's a problem. The difference between your examples of a second screen vs extending the screen around some other element of the phone is one of visual context.
We are accustomed to screens that follow general geometric shapes, specifically rectangular. This dates back to scrawling text on rectangular tablets. The mind sees black in an unexpected place and translates it to something in the way, or worse a faulty screen with some dead pixels. Putting the notch in the status bar further highlights the mental problem. How many icons are there? I mean I KNOW that Apple aren't dumb enough to draw the screen without an exclusion zone, but instinctively I can't help but feel... is there another notification icon behind that black non working part of the screen?
Their video demonstrations show that quite well too. Rather than bounding the video or images to a rectangular section in the middle of the screen they fill the screen. The rounded screen edges then make you lose the mental connection to the edge of the frame. Are you looking through a hole? Should you be moving closer to the hole so you can see the entire video? Are you missing something in the corner? And what is with the black dot in my field of view?
This isn't an Apple thing. The Essential phone got itself instantly on my no buy list for this reason alone, as will every other phone that is coming out with these trendy notches (Sharp and LG are both producing one too). Even the Galaxy S8 is marginal with it's rounded screen edges, but at least there's a bounding box top and bottom. The S7 edge didn't have this problem.
Interestingly I also notice this is a meh / hate kind of thing. People either completely don't care or outright hate the look of it. I haven't seen too many people being mildly annoyed. Could be an OCD thing too, or maybe a creative vs analytical thing.
Either way, I have trouble processing the fact that the notch isn't a major screen defect worthy of an RMA
But is it really? Trolls are deliberately offensive posts with the singular goal of upsetting people. This seems like a very clear list of reasons why many people think Apple has fallen from grace.
Just because a few fans will get upset that their favourite religion is attacked doesn't mean the article is automatically a troll article.
but there's this free application called VLC for the mac that'll play all kinds of video formats
And you have just managed to reiterate the point of TFS. Macs used to just work. Now you need ${SOFTWARE} combined with ${DONGLE} and a ${WEIRD_GESTURE) thrown in for good measure to do ${BASIC_STUFF}.
If you hit UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A all the USB-C ports morph into USB-A ports, the touch bar turns into actual buttons, and the notch on the iPhone X flips up to reveal a headphone jack.
While its research paper is focused on Apple, Duo Security said the same if not worse EFI issues likely affect PCs running Windows or Linux.
But don't let that stop a good Apple ass-whoopin'... carry on.
There's a fundamental difference there. Very few windows machines are eco-system controlled. i.e. There's a metric shitload of firmware updates out there for motherboards but in general they just don't get applied, because it's not a process that is automatically handled by a single vendor through a single update system.
e.g. I put a new graphics card in my 6 year old computer recently and it failed to POST. Just before crying foul I decided to try a BIOS update. It seems that I was running release 5 of my EFI firmware. I upgraded to release 21. I neither knew nor cared about all the intermediate releases in the past 6 years.
On the flipside my Surface Pro which is a vendor managed device with a single update system seems to get EFI firmware updates every 3 months or so. It's quite obvious because the installation process of an updated EFI firmware looks very different to that of a windows patch.
Namely, that whenever news comes out of Europe about anything tech-internet, it almost always is about court actions, fines, and the like. Hardly ever does something appear about a European startup, or how such-and-such out of Europe is transforming an industry, or how the Europeans are taking over something. I saw article this morning about a French company that was apparently pretty good at machine vision...and how Apple was buying them.
That's something called observation bias. There are plenty of positive stories from Europe, in some cases even about startups, AND covered on Slashdot Mind you we don't expect the USA to get too much coverage of European startups and innovations. Your culture is so fundamentally different than many startups in Europe work their way down to Australia before they even bother trying the USA market which is fundamentally different from the rest of the western world. Plus with double the population here there really isn't that much rush.
But hey the view through your lens is pretty cool too. America can keep it's supposed innovation and industrial transformation built on the backs of outsourcing and fucking over the people. We'll just sit here eating cheese and sipping wine.
Maybe if you did some research into Europe from something other than a USA based news site with a mostly USA readership with stories submitted mostly about USA based companies you may get mocked less about your sheltered view of the world.
What should Europe say? Butt in on the local problems of a country? Nothing here is happening that is against any EU laws, and I'm not sure the rest of Europe really gives too much of a damn.
Hate to tell you dude, but just because you believe something DIDN'T happen, doesn't mean it's NOT true
Indeed. That's why we have tests that we apply to these thought experiments. Occam's razor is a good start, as is reading the law you're actually accusing him of breaking despite negotiation of salaries having zero to do with insider trading.
So STFU, whose side are you on?
Neither. Notice how I made no comment on the person's character and didn't express any opinion on the situation at hand other than tell you how these contracts are typically negotiated and what would constitute insider trading. If I had to pick a side it would be the one of logic and reason, rather than whatever the hell you call your side.
The Linux community is toxic to any sort of drive to make Linux acceptable or usable as a general purpose it just works desktop device. Look at how everyone collectively frothed at the mouth over pulseaudio. Well guess what, intelligent and seamless audio switching is an actual use case for many on the desktop. Event based service management is also a requirement for a machine that goes in and out of sleep and bounces from network to network. As is some basic crap like trusting that the lock screen will actually lock the computer.
Yet with every change to make Linux desktop friendly the vets feel like they get personally attacked (and to be fair, they are being). The hacker desktop we love is not compatible with the general user desktop case.
Sure on a desktop PC or a server I'd agree with you. But Linux dominates the embedded world where a simple kernel upgrade may break an untold amount of bespoke hardware. Providing an LTS version with only critical fixes being applied makes it easier for companies of custom hardware to keep supporting that hardware.
He clearly waited to tell the public about the breach until after he'd arranged for his 'golden parachute', so I say that should qualify as insider trading.
Hate to break it to you dude, but just because you believe something doesn't make it true. There's zero evidence of this. Insider trading however would apply on the stock he sold the day before the breach was announced. But golden parachutes are not negotiated at the time of a disaster. They are negotiated long before (i.e. when you're hired) and then re-negotiated as the board asks you to leave.
but one thing I see surprisingly frequently on the Surface Pro is EFI firmware updates.
That can be seen as a good thing and a bad thing. One would hope these are feature updates and not such a long list of critical vulnerabilities but.... Microsoft.
For this to happen, the electric car must be roughly equivalent to the combustion engine powered car.
No it doesn't. For this to happen the electric car must meet people's use cases. Very few people have a use case for being able to drive 600km twice with only a 10minute break in between. Those few that do find themselves in a head-on collision with a tree after falling asleep at the wheel.
An electric car with a 200km autonomy and 4 hours recharge is fine if you have a garage to store and charge it, most people just don't have that possibility.
No one in my street has a garage. There are however 6 owners of fully electric cars. Public infrastructure is a thing.
Combustion engines are so successful because you can charge them to 1000km autonomy in less than 5 minutes.
No. Combustion engines are successful because they were the best thing we had to replace the horse. At the time they neither filled in 5 minutes, nor made it to 1000km.
I don't say that this wouldn't exist in 10 years, but until then, there is no practical replacement for at least 50% of trips.
Currently electric cars can easily cover 95% of existing trips. You're just applying unrealistic requirements to your car simply because an alternative can do better. It's like saying that a 256GB SSD won't be suitable while 10TB HDDs are on the market. It's stupid to compare two different things and completely ignore the use case.
And you are not supposed to buy 2 cars, 1 electric for small commutes and 1 combustion for larger ones or where you won't have easy electricity to charge them.
Why would you buy anything for the odd occasion that you use it? I own a small little 4cyl 1.2L buzzbox. That doesn't stop me going camping on a sand island 3 times a year accessible only by SUV, and it sure as heck doesn't mean I need to buy that SUV to do this.
What are they going to do, strand millions of lower-income people who can't afford to replace their $2000 clunker with a $30,000 new car?
No, because they are clearly talking in the context of the similar policies in EU and China which are only on new cars. The article doesn't spell this out, but it does make the link.
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A computer without software is an expensive paperweight. I mean, really, how did you think GP was playing the full screen video in the first place?
You fail to recognise the difference between having to install software to add functionality, and having to install software to replace existing software which was functionally screwed to begin with. It's the difference between installing an Office suite (not shipped by default in nearly every OS), and installing a media player (no OS is shipped without one).
15 years ago the suggestion that after market software to replace Apple's default would have been laughed and mocked. Hell 15 years ago we actively installed Apple's media player (Quicktime) on other platforms. They have fallen far.
I know. This is a clear sign that gay marriage laws aren't working. Wait what? What were we talking about? I mean none of the things you mentioned are related to net neutrality, so I assume you're talking about repealing the 9th amendment. Wait what?
I know right? Why do we even have speed limits on the road. It's not like a horse drawn carriage can do any more than 20km/h. Nothing ever changes. We as a species are in a perfectly stable equilibrium. We certainly don't need any regulations, every regulation anyone could ever need already exists.
Or maybe... and just hear me out... Maybe the world has changed, corporate interests have changed, and the reason the regulations were brought in to begin with was that the first 28+ years of the internet was actively under threat from corporate actors.
If I sound like I'm mocking you condescendingly, I am.
There are no users so extension writers don't give a damn? It explains why a lot of Firefox extensions are rotting away too.
when macs didnâ(TM)t need additional software?
You don't seem to understand the difference between "additional software", and software replacing already existing software from Apple which has some major design shortcomings.
I mean, ... itâ(TM)s an operating system, not a tardis.
No. It's an ecosystem. Apple products always have been. The idea that if you stick with Apple for everything then everything works together, and above all it just works. No tweaking, modifying, adapting, or smashing your head against keyboards in frustration. People don't run OSX because it's a good OS.
Remember when OS X first came out and no one could print anything?
I remember Apple compatible printers worked really well compared to the install a 300MB "driver" windows equiavlent.
Or all those years when âoeTextEditâ was your best option, until you installed Word?
I remember Office:Mac being far superior to the windows counterpart in both functionality and in use, precisely what I expect from something on the Apple platform. Mind you you're still not replacing existing functionality. But then if you did actually look for what the Apple ecosystem provided over the rest of the world you'd run into something like Keynote, which shitted all over Powerpoint (even the Mac version) from day 1.
Or all those years when OS X did not ship with a web browser, and step 1 post-install was to download Camino, Firefox, or Internet Explorer?
Yep. But we weren't replacing existing functionality by installing that software now were we? In fact when Safari came out it seemed to instantly eat everyone's lunch, precisely what I expect from something on the Apple platform.
Perhaps youâ(TM)re confusing your memories of OS X
Speaking of memories, since the GP suggested installing VLC to cover the shortcomings of Apple's solution, you want to really know what I remember? I remember installing Quicktime on Windows because at the time a tool from the Apple ecosystem didn't just wipe the floor with 3rd party software on Apple's platform, it wiped the floor with 3rd party software across the entire IT industry.
At least that was until what I'm going to start calling "the great dumbing" that seems to have infested Apple like a virus.
In other words your preferred laptop computer is a 2005 Dell Inspiron
Err yes. I had one (2004 actually), it was an awesome machine for its time.
and your ideal mobile phone runs Symbian and has an analog headphone jack because digital connectors and Bluetooth are the work of Lucifer
Err non-sequitur. Except for the bit about the headphone jack. My ideal phone definitely has one of those, along with Bluetooth that supports apt-x for decent audio, ... unlike the iPhone.
Did you know that if you repeat the above action while pressing the option key you also get a parallel printer port, a PS2 connector,
Why would I want that? I don't have anything that connects to those ports. They aren't relevant in this day and age, unlike say analogue headphones and USB-A.
your display shrinks down to 8 inches and a resolution of 800x600 pixels
non-sequitur.
and the computer automatically downgrades the operating system to Windows 2000?
You mean upgrade right? I'm running windows 10 you insensitive clod.
Typically, the narrative would be about evil white male scientists, paving over the sacred native lands to install their phallic, oppressive astronomy instruments.
Only if this is your first debate and you've never looked into this before. Scientists get pushback for many reasons, but "sacred native lands" rarely has support beyond a few local indigenous nutjobs these days.
Your post would be far more relevant in the 1400s
Lots of what is happening here is exactly what the EU stands for. e.g. Upholding of court decisions and the local constitution.
Did you have some actual examples in mind or were you hoping I'd just buy the word "lots" and change my mind?
I thought the EU required basic protections of things like free speech
They do. No one is being arrested or impeded from speaking in any way they want. The EU also places restrictions on things like the rule of law. e.g. the Spanish Constitution which with a ruling from the high court upholds the fact that a local referendum on a national government issue is illegal. The only people who are being arrested are Catalan officials and people attempting to hold the poll, something that would probably come with the EU's blessing in upholding the law.
in addition to granting Brussels the power to regulate eggplant purpleness!
The EU never regulated any eggplant colours, but since I assume you're taking a jab at the supposed banana bendyness regulations let me give you a non-Daily Mail version of what happened.
The EU never regulated nor banned any banana of any shape. What they did do was regulate how member states may be describe and market banana grades and qualities. They did this because some member states with climates not suited to growing bananas were growing them and marketing them to their own people with certain quality descriptions that didn't meet any international trade requirements. Note the key words there "international trade". All the EU rules did was force member states to describe bananas in the same way locally as they would be required to if they sold them to e.g. the USA.
A law saying you can't lie to your local population about the quality of goods sounds quite reasonable to me. As for the regulations on fruit, all EU regulations on fruit are matched to those for international trade. So if Brussels restricted some food, chances are it's the fault of a non-EU country.
I'm not going to accuse you of anything, but on the notch..., yes it's a problem. The difference between your examples of a second screen vs extending the screen around some other element of the phone is one of visual context.
We are accustomed to screens that follow general geometric shapes, specifically rectangular. This dates back to scrawling text on rectangular tablets. The mind sees black in an unexpected place and translates it to something in the way, or worse a faulty screen with some dead pixels. Putting the notch in the status bar further highlights the mental problem. How many icons are there? I mean I KNOW that Apple aren't dumb enough to draw the screen without an exclusion zone, but instinctively I can't help but feel ... is there another notification icon behind that black non working part of the screen?
Their video demonstrations show that quite well too. Rather than bounding the video or images to a rectangular section in the middle of the screen they fill the screen. The rounded screen edges then make you lose the mental connection to the edge of the frame. Are you looking through a hole? Should you be moving closer to the hole so you can see the entire video? Are you missing something in the corner? And what is with the black dot in my field of view?
This isn't an Apple thing. The Essential phone got itself instantly on my no buy list for this reason alone, as will every other phone that is coming out with these trendy notches (Sharp and LG are both producing one too). Even the Galaxy S8 is marginal with it's rounded screen edges, but at least there's a bounding box top and bottom. The S7 edge didn't have this problem.
Interestingly I also notice this is a meh / hate kind of thing. People either completely don't care or outright hate the look of it. I haven't seen too many people being mildly annoyed. Could be an OCD thing too, or maybe a creative vs analytical thing.
Either way, I have trouble processing the fact that the notch isn't a major screen defect worthy of an RMA
But is it really? Trolls are deliberately offensive posts with the singular goal of upsetting people. This seems like a very clear list of reasons why many people think Apple has fallen from grace.
Just because a few fans will get upset that their favourite religion is attacked doesn't mean the article is automatically a troll article.
but there's this free application called VLC for the mac that'll play all kinds of video formats
And you have just managed to reiterate the point of TFS. Macs used to just work. Now you need ${SOFTWARE} combined with ${DONGLE} and a ${WEIRD_GESTURE) thrown in for good measure to do ${BASIC_STUFF}.
If you hit UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A all the USB-C ports morph into USB-A ports, the touch bar turns into actual buttons, and the notch on the iPhone X flips up to reveal a headphone jack.
From TFA:
But don't let that stop a good Apple ass-whoopin'... carry on.
There's a fundamental difference there. Very few windows machines are eco-system controlled. i.e. There's a metric shitload of firmware updates out there for motherboards but in general they just don't get applied, because it's not a process that is automatically handled by a single vendor through a single update system.
e.g. I put a new graphics card in my 6 year old computer recently and it failed to POST. Just before crying foul I decided to try a BIOS update. It seems that I was running release 5 of my EFI firmware. I upgraded to release 21. I neither knew nor cared about all the intermediate releases in the past 6 years.
On the flipside my Surface Pro which is a vendor managed device with a single update system seems to get EFI firmware updates every 3 months or so. It's quite obvious because the installation process of an updated EFI firmware looks very different to that of a windows patch.
Namely, that whenever news comes out of Europe about anything tech-internet, it almost always is about court actions, fines, and the like. Hardly ever does something appear about a European startup, or how such-and-such out of Europe is transforming an industry, or how the Europeans are taking over something. I saw article this morning about a French company that was apparently pretty good at machine vision...and how Apple was buying them.
That's something called observation bias. There are plenty of positive stories from Europe, in some cases even about startups, AND covered on Slashdot Mind you we don't expect the USA to get too much coverage of European startups and innovations. Your culture is so fundamentally different than many startups in Europe work their way down to Australia before they even bother trying the USA market which is fundamentally different from the rest of the western world. Plus with double the population here there really isn't that much rush.
But hey the view through your lens is pretty cool too. America can keep it's supposed innovation and industrial transformation built on the backs of outsourcing and fucking over the people. We'll just sit here eating cheese and sipping wine.
Maybe if you did some research into Europe from something other than a USA based news site with a mostly USA readership with stories submitted mostly about USA based companies you may get mocked less about your sheltered view of the world.
What should Europe say? Butt in on the local problems of a country? Nothing here is happening that is against any EU laws, and I'm not sure the rest of Europe really gives too much of a damn.
Hate to tell you dude, but just because you believe something DIDN'T happen, doesn't mean it's NOT true
Indeed. That's why we have tests that we apply to these thought experiments. Occam's razor is a good start, as is reading the law you're actually accusing him of breaking despite negotiation of salaries having zero to do with insider trading.
So STFU, whose side are you on?
Neither. Notice how I made no comment on the person's character and didn't express any opinion on the situation at hand other than tell you how these contracts are typically negotiated and what would constitute insider trading. If I had to pick a side it would be the one of logic and reason, rather than whatever the hell you call your side.
The Linux community is toxic to any sort of drive to make Linux acceptable or usable as a general purpose it just works desktop device. Look at how everyone collectively frothed at the mouth over pulseaudio. Well guess what, intelligent and seamless audio switching is an actual use case for many on the desktop. Event based service management is also a requirement for a machine that goes in and out of sleep and bounces from network to network. As is some basic crap like trusting that the lock screen will actually lock the computer.
Yet with every change to make Linux desktop friendly the vets feel like they get personally attacked (and to be fair, they are being). The hacker desktop we love is not compatible with the general user desktop case.
Sure on a desktop PC or a server I'd agree with you. But Linux dominates the embedded world where a simple kernel upgrade may break an untold amount of bespoke hardware. Providing an LTS version with only critical fixes being applied makes it easier for companies of custom hardware to keep supporting that hardware.
He clearly waited to tell the public about the breach until after he'd arranged for his 'golden parachute', so I say that should qualify as insider trading.
Hate to break it to you dude, but just because you believe something doesn't make it true. There's zero evidence of this. Insider trading however would apply on the stock he sold the day before the breach was announced. But golden parachutes are not negotiated at the time of a disaster. They are negotiated long before (i.e. when you're hired) and then re-negotiated as the board asks you to leave.
but one thing I see surprisingly frequently on the Surface Pro is EFI firmware updates.
That can be seen as a good thing and a bad thing. One would hope these are feature updates and not such a long list of critical vulnerabilities but .... Microsoft.
For this to happen, the electric car must be roughly equivalent to the combustion engine powered car.
No it doesn't. For this to happen the electric car must meet people's use cases. Very few people have a use case for being able to drive 600km twice with only a 10minute break in between. Those few that do find themselves in a head-on collision with a tree after falling asleep at the wheel.
An electric car with a 200km autonomy and 4 hours recharge is fine if you have a garage to store and charge it, most people just don't have that possibility.
No one in my street has a garage. There are however 6 owners of fully electric cars. Public infrastructure is a thing.
Combustion engines are so successful because you can charge them to 1000km autonomy in less than 5 minutes.
No. Combustion engines are successful because they were the best thing we had to replace the horse. At the time they neither filled in 5 minutes, nor made it to 1000km.
I don't say that this wouldn't exist in 10 years, but until then, there is no practical replacement for at least 50% of trips.
Currently electric cars can easily cover 95% of existing trips. You're just applying unrealistic requirements to your car simply because an alternative can do better. It's like saying that a 256GB SSD won't be suitable while 10TB HDDs are on the market. It's stupid to compare two different things and completely ignore the use case.
And you are not supposed to buy 2 cars, 1 electric for small commutes and 1 combustion for larger ones or where you won't have easy electricity to charge them.
Why would you buy anything for the odd occasion that you use it? I own a small little 4cyl 1.2L buzzbox. That doesn't stop me going camping on a sand island 3 times a year accessible only by SUV, and it sure as heck doesn't mean I need to buy that SUV to do this.
If people didn't like that, wouldn't they move?
What a classic case of assuming that people and jobs are as fungible as free market idealism.
Clearly people love paying a fortune for silicon valley housing otherwise they wouldn't be there struggling to make ends meet.
Or maybe there's a lot more to people's motivation in living in an area than ${THING_WE'RE_DISCUSSING}.
Just because I don't move away from a city with smog doesn't mean I'm happy breathing it.
But it doesn't run on oil, which is only slightly less sacred than Jesus.
What are they going to do, strand millions of lower-income people who can't afford to replace their $2000 clunker with a $30,000 new car?
No, because they are clearly talking in the context of the similar policies in EU and China which are only on new cars. The article doesn't spell this out, but it does make the link.