"You are probably retarded enough to think that the hardware for full self driving comes on every Tesla too."
well it's retarded to have listened to what musk said like 3 years+ ago so yes.. anyways. tesla made a purposeful pump of cars in the last quarter to make it look good, at expense of quality and customer care.
and yes the promises of being able to produce model 3 at 35k cost while making profit was a big deal and teslas not hitting that. and come on, waiting 1-2months to get a certified preowned car from tesla is apparently normal right now too due to the organization being totally fucked up.
which makes the experiment line just a bunch of bullshit.
they rolled out ads for some people on new tab. it's bullshit.
it's already at the point where I'm quite near to going back to chrome for a while at least.
Just make the browser actually fucking lighter. that's what people want. don't mess with the window styling. don't mess with the api's. give options to disable web push, web workers and all of that shit easily.
like, right now I have facebook and slashdot open. it's using 1800 megabytes of ram. WHAT THE FUCK GUYS WHAT THE FUCK?
The general state of ordering anything like grab, mcdonalds etc in Thailand is pretty shitty as far as addresses go.
McDonalds for example has a thing on their website where you can in fact put your location on a map - the only problem is that once you do geocoding on the location and then locate that again on the map it's usually 1-10 kilometers away from the place you chose and the system does _not_ retain the original submitted gps coordinates which would make everything super simple.
foodpanda is the same way and it sucks, you can only choose an address on the map that automatically geocodes into something. this makes half the addresses unchoosable. you can write whatever you want though, as long as it resolves to _some_ location. it's not going to be the location you're at though so once again, they will call you where the place is.
So what they do pretty much always is call you for instructions. those instructions then get saved on the system.
but it is really rare just generally that you have an address line and you can look that up on the map and that it would show you where that place actually is on the map.
the roads are usually marked positionally allright, but they're either unnamed or with straight up wrong names. city names are reused quite a lot even inside same province - and the names on say nokia maps and google maps show can be entirely different or if not entirely different then at least usually written differently as there is apparently no official listing of city names into western characters - so a city can have the name written one way on the west side entrance of the city and slightly differently on the east side entrance - apparently this also extends somewhat into writing them in thai characters as well. Imagine extreme engrish and that's what you get.
anyways, maps are pretty horrible, but you can navigate with them somewhat. the bigger problem is looking up an address on a map which is just plain impossible for most addresses - sure you can get a general idea around where the address might be, but that's if you're not unlucky and theres a matching placename 100km away in the same province and the address line didn't include extra qualifiers to tell the two apart.
well if you're worrying where to get some pants and a few bucks for noodles for the week you kinda give up. HOWEVER a lot of it is just scale of things. se asia recycles a lot more than you would think, simply due to it being profitable enough for the really poor to sort out other peoples trash for different kinds of metal, plastics and glass.
and well. those rivers have been under large population centres for millenia. they've been full of feces for a long time anyways, people haven't regarded them as that clean for a long long time..
would a what would have been called a featurephone be okay? those have internet too.
6310i has j2me, possibly the first phone to do so. so would it be okay?
or can I just haul my laptop around?
also the whole concept is fucking stupid exactly due to there being people who don't use one anyways. for me, I need to use them for development even if I participated. but then again it's just a publicity stunt.
it's just the same thing they've been bullish or whatever crap for 15 years.
they can't fucking come up with a good cost efficient cpu nowadays and now we should expect them to actually come up with a fast gpu?
I mean for 15 years they've been touting the same line of "oh in a year you don't need an extra gpu, our will be just sooo fast!" and then it comes to the market and is like a budget gpu from 5 years before. literally that's what they do.
another alternative is that it'll cost even more than a 2080 and work like a budget integrated amd gpu.
so that you, not them, are responsible when it goes up in flames after it can't manouver automatically some place and can't fallback to user control either and can't let the passenger out.
look this idea is SIMPLE AF, but the FUCKING PRACTICALITIES ARE IN IT'S WAY. this is whats wrong with modern inventions mostly. that they are neither modern nor practical.
anyhow. the whole asking for permission, calling the police etc - that's a distraction to sell this idea as something new. here is what the idea is, in practicality: to have all cars on remote control from the state on demand.
what you do with that then is an extension of that idea. but that autonomous cars can technically be remotely controlled then is not really any sort of an idea worth publicizing even as an idea.
bitcoins stich was drugs, thats what provided the need for it for transactions. this provided value.
it's not so much of a hard store of value as some people think. the main use was not a store - the main use providing value (need to have transactions) was/is moving irl money from person to person. as a store it's ONLY backed up by a need for it by other people(those transactions). otherwise it's just a collectible numbers game.
without the need of bitcoin to use in transactions it has no value beyond collectability/score. this is what people holding major bitcoin reserves should aim their development/investment efforts towards. it needs to have a practical use in the real world, otherwise it is just the same as having wow gold(or worse).
it might be around, might not. might have value might not. thats not very solid compared to owning something with a practical use.
it could very well go under 1000, it might not. point being, at current, it's a high risk investment to just buy it for investment.
I don't buy Apple products. Only reason I use some is that I get paid to do so, it's kinda hard to do builds for iOS without osx.
Actually I'm saying people are stupid to keep paying more for less, but I see people glamoring for them all the time. I guess it's same as was with ibm in early '90s.
however there are reasons for why developers jumped on the iOS bandwagon so easily and it was simply that it was super cheap super easy to start making cash on it. that's the vital part that android copied from them. that was the thing developers wanted - it doesn't matter how terrible the os would have been to code for.
It was really fucking hard to monetize anything on symbian as a smalltime developer. I kid you not it would have cost thousands to get the usually used license manager/billing software that most symbian software used at the time(same as Nokia used on their maps before making them free). and for 1 dollar purchases a lot worse than losing just 30% like with apple. compared to that the 100 dollar yearly developer fees from apple/google were really, really cheap.
One Indian company got absolutely hosed buying that license manager company I tell you that much... wasn't a bad place to work for a while.
You need to insert the dns because you can't configure a custom dns on a gprs/2g/4g connection on phones. so what to do? well create a local vpn and intercept the dns there. the vpn doesn't need to "go" anywhere.
You cannot filter/block the dns requests otherwise on the phone itself. this situation sucks and is deliberate. this is a janky workaround to combat that.
This idea of doing filtering like this is years old. there's a bunch of apps like this on play store.
- on a related note, samsung for example has actual api's to configure the actual firewall, those apis aren't free to use but behind a licensing deal(your phone check the developers key when you use an app that has done the licensing with samsung).
or, of course, you could just root your phone. I mean that would be the most sensible thing to do. you can't configure these vpn's to be "always on" anyways - and fucking android lets some built in stuff bypass the always on vpn setting anyways.
You would be amazed how much of hong kong is actually non developed land.
it's a political choice problem, which has roots in.. well. you need to still have facilities to handle all the extra population. where the income generators are tends to end up being expensive to live.
like, inexpensive housing is already really really inexpensive. but it's not in the right place. way under 100km from hong kong you can rent a house for the same money that gets you a literal metal fence box in hong kong. like a real house with bedrooms, bathrooms and stuff. a hut that does for a dwelling is a lot more inexpensive than that then again.
anyhow, that a trillion dollars worth of food just spoils tells that spoiling food is actually really cheap, hence it ending up spoilt and not eaten.
The thing the smartphone market was missing was a good universal(NOT CARRIER RUN SEGMENTED JUNGLE OF SHIT) before apple. that 30% and 100 bucks was a pretty goddamned good deal(getting stuff signed for symbian or j2me cost way more - per one release! and the shops you could sell on gave you shit percentages).
Appstore and google play store fixed that. If you've wondered what really killed Nokia this was a major factor in it, as their attempts were so half hearted because they didn't want to go against operators. They had their Download! etc but.. you would be really, really surprised on what kind of a budget those attempts were ran(displaying nokias motivation) and what kind of money you needed to sort payments for them(again displaying nokias motivation level - you wouldn't believe how good deal that 100$ bucks starting developer fee from apple was compared to the sums you needed to get a popular symbian os licensing platform and accepting payments on it - both in startup cost and per transaction cost for typical mobile payment sizes).
There is no easy way currently to break in a new smartphone platform in.. Android is already too well established in the lower(and higher too) end.
also there's kaiOS but thats a transitory ecosystem, just like tizen.
windows phone failed due to not matching features. launching a smartphone platform with featurephone capabilities was a dumb AF move. it was also tragically funny having ms and nokia people lobby for ports of apps onto the platform that were literally impossible to do at the time on the platform. then when escalating through ms dev relations the answer came back as "you don't need to do that". well, okay then. thanks for the free phone and food I guess.
anyways about apple, they're making cheaper and cheaper devices and selling them for higher and higher price. It's not their fault that people buy it. they will continue to make them cheaper and cheaper to make.
also somehow they manage to sell 3 year old devices that will have support dropped in like 1 year. that should be illegal (they do this in asia. apple actually has mid tier phones and has had for years. they just keep selling the old models - and this is new in box models through operators, a lot of it in asia. no refurbs. but new in box phones of 3 year old phones. thats their 200 dollar segment). apple sells them and doesn't give a fuck that the sw support is due to be dropped in just a little while.
I don't think he is a good choice as what they need right now is someone who would be profit driven and somewhat technically inclined to make some calls about which spending is going to actually bring in profit.
Or perhaps they regard it as a media company or something like that. might just as well.
the point is that vpn'ing around it doesn't make half the software you use break like letting it pass the mitm does(unintentionally mind you). any sw that does any attempt at detecting a mitm and doesn't take the certs to trust from the operating system just breaks.
also. "corporate installed encryption breaking software breaks encryption". yeah who would have thought.
and if you're using a decent vpn client then yeah you would know because it wouldn't trust the corporate certificate in the first place.
you can't have autonomous for decade or few decades in Hondas main markets.
This autonomous driving race is stupid waste of money. You can't fundamentally make assists into a good enough autonomous driver. the assists are feasible but they're assists.
Elon sold his assists as autopilot with promises of being autonomous ready EVEN THOUGH THEY DON'T FUCKING KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO BE AUTONOMOUS READY(but he needed some more funding so whatever, sell promises to investors)
they'll deal with it with "certain locations" not including places where they get robbed for parts, wheels and such. herding cars. think about it, you can learn to herd them to a side alley and rob it for parts and nobody will care.
is waymo really saying they'll do fully autonomous taxis? whats their "certain locations" - airport parking lots? it just sounds so much bullshit. even 2025 sounds bullshit.
I live in Thailand and 2090 is optimistic for "certain locations" to be included into Thailand. with all the dogs, motorbikers(going wrong way), normal drivers(driving unexpectedly expectedly, u turns being the norm for highways instead of multi level intersections), road markings that lead off the road(literally, they move the road but don't take out the old markings) and all.
What you can have is busses doing slow speed pre-set routes as far as self driving unattended goes - and that includes not having any roadwork etc going on in the route while they operate.
driverless cars work in limited, pre arranged pre setup pre programmed stretches of travel where nobody decides to fuck with them with traffic cones or whatever.
Anyhow, generic self driving has been hyped through the moon, not least due to tesla using it to raise funding(oh our cars are "ready" for it!)..
assists are relatively simple to code. braking assist is useful. but if people are so fucking stupid as to not look at a road, I think they would read the newspaper while driving even without assists.
however the blind spot warning kinda took me by a surprise. I mean it's right there in the name that it warns of anyone in the blind spot. It's not like it's a lane change warning, so, uh, why the fuck wouldn't they check the NON BLIND spot when changing lanes?
Apple makes cheapo products and sells them at premium price.
Tesla makes luxury products(production costswise) and sells them at upper premium price.
Again, I'm no saying that it's stupid to buy a tesla car. just that it would seem stupid, based on the numbers we have, to invest money into the company. These two are different things. If a company constantly sells out, but it's prices remain same, and they're not making steady cash(one time investments etc taken out), there's something wrong with it.
Lining up to Tesla events isn't really that different from people lining up to Ferrari events too. It doesn't tell anything about the health of the companys product.
Last time I checked the website promised 4 weeks delivery for model 3 though, couple of weeks ago. I don't know how that equates to years? or are they simply lying on their web order when they take downpayments on the cars?
Tesla is in a make or break situation right now - if they cannot get their cashflows positive investors are getting really itchy. And this is even without the looming competition, even if the competition isn't in the business of selling cars at a loss.
Teslas capital raising would be in a very different position if they could show investors that they were making 30% on every car, that number is simply bullshit - or if true,it doesn't count any other ongoing expenses of the company which would explain such a number and why their top level book guys seem to have a habit of running off.
They are most definitely NOT making 30% on their cars. not on ANY of them. even they admitted the reason they weren't selling the cheapo 3 was that they would have taken a loss on every cheapo 3 they would have sold.
Tesla would be in a really, really, really different place if they could be making 30% on production that's 100% full. they aren't at that place and if they were they would be making weekly press statements about it.
Look, I wasn't even talking about the money they sell them for. it's obviously too low and has been for years. it's a pricepoint meant to keep the order books 200% full, which frankly is stupid business. There's two reasons for why it's too low 1) their books don't show a continuous operating profit from making and selling them(other costs out of that) and b) their order books are 100% full, supposedly.
The point is, that it's not a viable long term market to go mass produce. and really man, you're exactly the kind of person who I was referring to when I said that some people think that 80k is cheap, somehow, in global scale. It really isn't. it's a luxury niche market in volume of car production.
and anyways, 4 weeks delivery is not that full. thats what their website claimed anyways. HOW THE FUCK IS THAT YEARS OF BACK ORDERS?
What's electric cars being the future has to do with TSLA's viability as a company? VAG, BMW, etc have literally tens of billions of money sitting waiting to convert their shit over if it becomes financially a good proposition to do it - they have tens of gigafactories - their ENTIRE EXPERTISE that has enabled them to remain viable car companies is based around production and logistics around it - the Tesla gigafactory seems puny in comparison and indeed it is, it's just called giga for marketing reasons - vag doesn't need to "market" it's factories, so they don't, but there's a reason why they're still alive and not bailed out for the tenth time.
The thing with Tesla is that.. they don't really have any special technology. They just sold it at a price that didn't make any fucking sense for them to be doing, since they were selling all production(supposedly) and still losing money(even after one time book shenigans). The reason Musk is under enermous pressure is that now is the time the company has to start making profit, not another 10 years into the future because electric cars are the future. Basically his promises that his supermodernhyper Gigafactory can churn out production cheaper than VAG etc's factories can need to be kept right now.
Lucid motors also however, a shit grade investment. Their car? a fucking 1000hp sedan. good luck selling that 20 000 - 130 000 units in a year. They're not sitting on any technology unique to them and they don't have decades of expertise in manufacturing.
So yeah, Saudis putting money into it - whatever. Call the market up when they have some special sauce to make 20 000 dollar cars people want to buy.
And of course teslas are nice cars, they cost an arm and a leg and still are sold for too cheap so they better well should be, but the technology really isn't all that special, whats special is putting them into a product and selling it at the price.
Why do american car companies insist on building stuff people can't afford anyways en masse? don't they realize that 80 000 dollar + cars are an extreme luxury, just because they live rich themselves? is it because they can't optimize their production for worth shit? because Musk sure as fuck sold the cheapo model of the 3 but can't deliver.
The chinese probably view it as business as usual, as you sure can't buy consultation from amazon themselves on what you can sell, what exact documents do you need to prove yourself and all that(photos, company registrations, proof of location, house book, hope your dynamic ip or vpn provider was never attached to any other seller and so forth).
Like, Amazon puts on a face like that they tell you enough on their website, but they really don't and they do that on purpose to battle scammers, but they also screw over legit sellers. Because they really can't be bothered to tell the two apart, it's just too much work.
SO.. legit high volume sellers will think and resort to paying someone at Amazon to make their account work like it should - REGARDLESS OF IT'S A SCAM OR LEGIT SALES.
That's why there's huge 3rd party forums and services related to selling on Amazon. Because even legit sellers from Asia have hard time listing their products.
It's easier to sell counterfeit pirate Nintendo cartridges that are _CLEARLY_ counterfeit on amazon, ebay and etsy than it is to sell shirts that you made yourself and don't infringe on anybody's IP. Same goes partially for ebay. Anyhow, due to it being hard and semi(or fully secret) how your account must look a lot of american sellers can just buy any crap from Asia and throw it on Amazon/Ebay because they're not from Asia.
Want to sell cheapo sneakers on Amazon that you commissioned from some factory in Thailand, totally not infringing on any trademarks? good fucking luck with that.
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"You are probably retarded enough to think that the hardware for full self driving comes on every Tesla too."
well it's retarded to have listened to what musk said like 3 years+ ago so yes.. anyways. tesla made a purposeful pump of cars in the last quarter to make it look good, at expense of quality and customer care.
and yes the promises of being able to produce model 3 at 35k cost while making profit was a big deal and teslas not hitting that. and come on, waiting 1-2months to get a certified preowned car from tesla is apparently normal right now too due to the organization being totally fucked up.
which makes the experiment line just a bunch of bullshit.
they rolled out ads for some people on new tab. it's bullshit.
it's already at the point where I'm quite near to going back to chrome for a while at least.
Just make the browser actually fucking lighter. that's what people want. don't mess with the window styling. don't mess with the api's. give options to disable web push, web workers and all of that shit easily.
like, right now I have facebook and slashdot open. it's using 1800 megabytes of ram. WHAT THE FUCK GUYS WHAT THE FUCK?
The general state of ordering anything like grab, mcdonalds etc in Thailand is pretty shitty as far as addresses go.
McDonalds for example has a thing on their website where you can in fact put your location on a map - the only problem is that once you do geocoding on the location and then locate that again on the map it's usually 1-10 kilometers away from the place you chose and the system does _not_ retain the original submitted gps coordinates which would make everything super simple.
foodpanda is the same way and it sucks, you can only choose an address on the map that automatically geocodes into something. this makes half the addresses unchoosable. you can write whatever you want though, as long as it resolves to _some_ location. it's not going to be the location you're at though so once again, they will call you where the place is.
So what they do pretty much always is call you for instructions. those instructions then get saved on the system.
but it is really rare just generally that you have an address line and you can look that up on the map and that it would show you where that place actually is on the map.
the roads are usually marked positionally allright, but they're either unnamed or with straight up wrong names. city names are reused quite a lot even inside same province - and the names on say nokia maps and google maps show can be entirely different or if not entirely different then at least usually written differently as there is apparently no official listing of city names into western characters - so a city can have the name written one way on the west side entrance of the city and slightly differently on the east side entrance - apparently this also extends somewhat into writing them in thai characters as well. Imagine extreme engrish and that's what you get.
anyways, maps are pretty horrible, but you can navigate with them somewhat. the bigger problem is looking up an address on a map which is just plain impossible for most addresses - sure you can get a general idea around where the address might be, but that's if you're not unlucky and theres a matching placename 100km away in the same province and the address line didn't include extra qualifiers to tell the two apart.
well if you're worrying where to get some pants and a few bucks for noodles for the week you kinda give up. HOWEVER a lot of it is just scale of things. se asia recycles a lot more than you would think, simply due to it being profitable enough for the really poor to sort out other peoples trash for different kinds of metal, plastics and glass.
and well. those rivers have been under large population centres for millenia. they've been full of feces for a long time anyways, people haven't regarded them as that clean for a long long time..
how is it safe when you can get banned for participation if you happen to show a nipple and whoever moderates it thinks that you look female enough?
thats what interests me about this.
would a what would have been called a featurephone be okay? those have internet too.
6310i has j2me, possibly the first phone to do so. so would it be okay?
or can I just haul my laptop around?
also the whole concept is fucking stupid exactly due to there being people who don't use one anyways. for me, I need to use them for development even if I participated. but then again it's just a publicity stunt.
it's just the same thing they've been bullish or whatever crap for 15 years.
they can't fucking come up with a good cost efficient cpu nowadays and now we should expect them to actually come up with a fast gpu?
I mean for 15 years they've been touting the same line of "oh in a year you don't need an extra gpu, our will be just sooo fast!" and then it comes to the market and is like a budget gpu from 5 years before. literally that's what they do.
another alternative is that it'll cost even more than a 2080 and work like a budget integrated amd gpu.
is tesla making money with them?
It's not like gm wasn't selling cars.
look. yank car companies just don't know how to run a business as they never had to learn how to run a business as government kept bailing them out.
well.. that and.. well.. pretty sure you would need a warrant to commit copyright, trademark etc fraud.
so that you, not them, are responsible when it goes up in flames after it can't manouver automatically some place and can't fallback to user control either and can't let the passenger out.
look this idea is SIMPLE AF, but the FUCKING PRACTICALITIES ARE IN IT'S WAY. this is whats wrong with modern inventions mostly. that they are neither modern nor practical.
anyhow. the whole asking for permission, calling the police etc - that's a distraction to sell this idea as something new. here is what the idea is, in practicality: to have all cars on remote control from the state on demand.
what you do with that then is an extension of that idea. but that autonomous cars can technically be remotely controlled then is not really any sort of an idea worth publicizing even as an idea.
bitcoins stich was drugs, thats what provided the need for it for transactions. this provided value.
it's not so much of a hard store of value as some people think. the main use was not a store - the main use providing value (need to have transactions) was/is moving irl money from person to person. as a store it's ONLY backed up by a need for it by other people(those transactions). otherwise it's just a collectible numbers game.
without the need of bitcoin to use in transactions it has no value beyond collectability/score. this is what people holding major bitcoin reserves should aim their development/investment efforts towards. it needs to have a practical use in the real world, otherwise it is just the same as having wow gold(or worse).
it might be around, might not. might have value might not. thats not very solid compared to owning something with a practical use.
it could very well go under 1000, it might not. point being, at current, it's a high risk investment to just buy it for investment.
I'm not shilling for them.
I don't buy Apple products. Only reason I use some is that I get paid to do so, it's kinda hard to do builds for iOS without osx.
Actually I'm saying people are stupid to keep paying more for less, but I see people glamoring for them all the time. I guess it's same as was with ibm in early '90s.
however there are reasons for why developers jumped on the iOS bandwagon so easily and it was simply that it was super cheap super easy to start making cash on it. that's the vital part that android copied from them. that was the thing developers wanted - it doesn't matter how terrible the os would have been to code for.
It was really fucking hard to monetize anything on symbian as a smalltime developer. I kid you not it would have cost thousands to get the usually used license manager/billing software that most symbian software used at the time(same as Nokia used on their maps before making them free). and for 1 dollar purchases a lot worse than losing just 30% like with apple. compared to that the 100 dollar yearly developer fees from apple/google were really, really cheap.
One Indian company got absolutely hosed buying that license manager company I tell you that much... wasn't a bad place to work for a while.
You need to insert the dns because you can't configure a custom dns on a gprs/2g/4g connection on phones. so what to do? well create a local vpn and intercept the dns there. the vpn doesn't need to "go" anywhere.
You cannot filter/block the dns requests otherwise on the phone itself. this situation sucks and is deliberate. this is a janky workaround to combat that.
This idea of doing filtering like this is years old. there's a bunch of apps like this on play store.
- on a related note, samsung for example has actual api's to configure the actual firewall, those apis aren't free to use but behind a licensing deal(your phone check the developers key when you use an app that has done the licensing with samsung).
or, of course, you could just root your phone. I mean that would be the most sensible thing to do. you can't configure these vpn's to be "always on" anyways - and fucking android lets some built in stuff bypass the always on vpn setting anyways.
You would be amazed how much of hong kong is actually non developed land.
it's a political choice problem, which has roots in .. well. you need to still have facilities to handle all the extra population. where the income generators are tends to end up being expensive to live.
like, inexpensive housing is already really really inexpensive. but it's not in the right place. way under 100km from hong kong you can rent a house for the same money that gets you a literal metal fence box in hong kong. like a real house with bedrooms, bathrooms and stuff. a hut that does for a dwelling is a lot more inexpensive than that then again.
anyhow, that a trillion dollars worth of food just spoils tells that spoiling food is actually really cheap, hence it ending up spoilt and not eaten.
The thing the smartphone market was missing was a good universal(NOT CARRIER RUN SEGMENTED JUNGLE OF SHIT) before apple. that 30% and 100 bucks was a pretty goddamned good deal(getting stuff signed for symbian or j2me cost way more - per one release! and the shops you could sell on gave you shit percentages).
Appstore and google play store fixed that. If you've wondered what really killed Nokia this was a major factor in it, as their attempts were so half hearted because they didn't want to go against operators. They had their Download! etc but .. you would be really, really surprised on what kind of a budget those attempts were ran(displaying nokias motivation) and what kind of money you needed to sort payments for them(again displaying nokias motivation level - you wouldn't believe how good deal that 100$ bucks starting developer fee from apple was compared to the sums you needed to get a popular symbian os licensing platform and accepting payments on it - both in startup cost and per transaction cost for typical mobile payment sizes).
There is no easy way currently to break in a new smartphone platform in.. Android is already too well established in the lower(and higher too) end.
also there's kaiOS but thats a transitory ecosystem, just like tizen.
windows phone failed due to not matching features. launching a smartphone platform with featurephone capabilities was a dumb AF move. it was also tragically funny having ms and nokia people lobby for ports of apps onto the platform that were literally impossible to do at the time on the platform. then when escalating through ms dev relations the answer came back as "you don't need to do that". well, okay then. thanks for the free phone and food I guess.
anyways about apple, they're making cheaper and cheaper devices and selling them for higher and higher price. It's not their fault that people buy it. they will continue to make them cheaper and cheaper to make.
also somehow they manage to sell 3 year old devices that will have support dropped in like 1 year. that should be illegal (they do this in asia. apple actually has mid tier phones and has had for years. they just keep selling the old models - and this is new in box models through operators, a lot of it in asia. no refurbs. but new in box phones of 3 year old phones. thats their 200 dollar segment). apple sells them and doesn't give a fuck that the sw support is due to be dropped in just a little while.
I don't think he is a good choice as what they need right now is someone who would be profit driven and somewhat technically inclined to make some calls about which spending is going to actually bring in profit.
Or perhaps they regard it as a media company or something like that. might just as well.
the point is that vpn'ing around it doesn't make half the software you use break like letting it pass the mitm does(unintentionally mind you). any sw that does any attempt at detecting a mitm and doesn't take the certs to trust from the operating system just breaks.
also. "corporate installed encryption breaking software breaks encryption". yeah who would have thought.
and if you're using a decent vpn client then yeah you would know because it wouldn't trust the corporate certificate in the first place.
you can't have autonomous for decade or few decades in Hondas main markets.
This autonomous driving race is stupid waste of money. You can't fundamentally make assists into a good enough autonomous driver. the assists are feasible but they're assists.
Elon sold his assists as autopilot with promises of being autonomous ready EVEN THOUGH THEY DON'T FUCKING KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO BE AUTONOMOUS READY(but he needed some more funding so whatever, sell promises to investors)
well.
they'll deal with it with "certain locations" not including places where they get robbed for parts, wheels and such. herding cars. think about it, you can learn to herd them to a side alley and rob it for parts and nobody will care.
is waymo really saying they'll do fully autonomous taxis? whats their "certain locations" - airport parking lots? it just sounds so much bullshit. even 2025 sounds bullshit.
I live in Thailand and 2090 is optimistic for "certain locations" to be included into Thailand. with all the dogs, motorbikers(going wrong way), normal drivers(driving unexpectedly expectedly, u turns being the norm for highways instead of multi level intersections), road markings that lead off the road(literally, they move the road but don't take out the old markings) and all.
What you can have is busses doing slow speed pre-set routes as far as self driving unattended goes - and that includes not having any roadwork etc going on in the route while they operate.
driverless cars work in limited, pre arranged pre setup pre programmed stretches of travel where nobody decides to fuck with them with traffic cones or whatever.
Anyhow, generic self driving has been hyped through the moon, not least due to tesla using it to raise funding(oh our cars are "ready" for it!)..
assists are relatively simple to code. braking assist is useful. but if people are so fucking stupid as to not look at a road, I think they would read the newspaper while driving even without assists.
however the blind spot warning kinda took me by a surprise. I mean it's right there in the name that it warns of anyone in the blind spot. It's not like it's a lane change warning, so, uh, why the fuck wouldn't they check the NON BLIND spot when changing lanes?
you know whats different between Apple and Tesla?
Apple makes cheapo products and sells them at premium price.
Tesla makes luxury products(production costswise) and sells them at upper premium price.
Again, I'm no saying that it's stupid to buy a tesla car. just that it would seem stupid, based on the numbers we have, to invest money into the company. These two are different things. If a company constantly sells out, but it's prices remain same, and they're not making steady cash(one time investments etc taken out), there's something wrong with it.
Lining up to Tesla events isn't really that different from people lining up to Ferrari events too. It doesn't tell anything about the health of the companys product.
Last time I checked the website promised 4 weeks delivery for model 3 though, couple of weeks ago. I don't know how that equates to years? or are they simply lying on their web order when they take downpayments on the cars?
Tesla is in a make or break situation right now - if they cannot get their cashflows positive investors are getting really itchy. And this is even without the looming competition, even if the competition isn't in the business of selling cars at a loss.
Teslas capital raising would be in a very different position if they could show investors that they were making 30% on every car, that number is simply bullshit - or if true,it doesn't count any other ongoing expenses of the company which would explain such a number and why their top level book guys seem to have a habit of running off.
look, do not link electrek on tesla stories.
They are most definitely NOT making 30% on their cars.
not on ANY of them. even they admitted the reason they weren't selling the cheapo 3 was that they would have taken a loss on every cheapo 3 they would have sold.
Tesla would be in a really, really, really different place if they could be making 30% on production that's 100% full. they aren't at that place and if they were they would be making weekly press statements about it.
Look, I wasn't even talking about the money they sell them for. it's obviously too low and has been for years. it's a pricepoint meant to keep the order books 200% full, which frankly is stupid business. There's two reasons for why it's too low 1) their books don't show a continuous operating profit from making and selling them(other costs out of that) and b) their order books are 100% full, supposedly.
The point is, that it's not a viable long term market to go mass produce. and really man, you're exactly the kind of person who I was referring to when I said that some people think that 80k is cheap, somehow, in global scale. It really isn't. it's a luxury niche market in volume of car production.
and anyways, 4 weeks delivery is not that full. thats what their website claimed anyways. HOW THE FUCK IS THAT YEARS OF BACK ORDERS?
What's electric cars being the future has to do with TSLA's viability as a company? VAG, BMW, etc have literally tens of billions of money sitting waiting to convert their shit over if it becomes financially a good proposition to do it - they have tens of gigafactories - their ENTIRE EXPERTISE that has enabled them to remain viable car companies is based around production and logistics around it - the Tesla gigafactory seems puny in comparison and indeed it is, it's just called giga for marketing reasons - vag doesn't need to "market" it's factories, so they don't, but there's a reason why they're still alive and not bailed out for the tenth time.
The thing with Tesla is that.. they don't really have any special technology. They just sold it at a price that didn't make any fucking sense for them to be doing, since they were selling all production(supposedly) and still losing money(even after one time book shenigans). The reason Musk is under enermous pressure is that now is the time the company has to start making profit, not another 10 years into the future because electric cars are the future. Basically his promises that his supermodernhyper Gigafactory can churn out production cheaper than VAG etc's factories can need to be kept right now.
Lucid motors also however, a shit grade investment. Their car? a fucking 1000hp sedan. good luck selling that 20 000 - 130 000 units in a year. They're not sitting on any technology unique to them and they don't have decades of expertise in manufacturing.
So yeah, Saudis putting money into it - whatever. Call the market up when they have some special sauce to make 20 000 dollar cars people want to buy.
And of course teslas are nice cars, they cost an arm and a leg and still are sold for too cheap so they better well should be, but the technology really isn't all that special, whats special is putting them into a product and selling it at the price.
Why do american car companies insist on building stuff people can't afford anyways en masse? don't they realize that 80 000 dollar + cars are an extreme luxury, just because they live rich themselves? is it because they can't optimize their production for worth shit? because Musk sure as fuck sold the cheapo model of the 3 but can't deliver.
What's economy doing great have to do with people not having money to spend on eating out?
The chinese probably view it as business as usual, as you sure can't buy consultation from amazon themselves on what you can sell, what exact documents do you need to prove yourself and all that(photos, company registrations, proof of location, house book, hope your dynamic ip or vpn provider was never attached to any other seller and so forth).
Like, Amazon puts on a face like that they tell you enough on their website, but they really don't and they do that on purpose to battle scammers, but they also screw over legit sellers. Because they really can't be bothered to tell the two apart, it's just too much work.
SO.. legit high volume sellers will think and resort to paying someone at Amazon to make their account work like it should - REGARDLESS OF IT'S A SCAM OR LEGIT SALES.
That's why there's huge 3rd party forums and services related to selling on Amazon. Because even legit sellers from Asia have hard time listing their products.
It's easier to sell counterfeit pirate Nintendo cartridges that are _CLEARLY_ counterfeit on amazon, ebay and etsy than it is to sell shirts that you made yourself and don't infringe on anybody's IP. Same goes partially for ebay. Anyhow, due to it being hard and semi(or fully secret) how your account must look a lot of american sellers can just buy any crap from Asia and throw it on Amazon/Ebay because they're not from Asia.
Want to sell cheapo sneakers on Amazon that you commissioned from some factory in Thailand, totally not infringing on any trademarks? good fucking luck with that.