Because I'm sure they don't have the tried-and-true PIN entry available still, just like OMG WHAT IF I'M WEARING GLOVES AND IT CAN'T READ MY FINGERPRINT?!
It's not like it takes a room full of PhDs to figure that one out...
Gee, you don't think it's because everybody plays tech stocks with the strategy of "buy on rumor, sell on news" do you?
No, I'm sure it's because the tech geniuses at the hedge funds think these new products are terrible, and that Apple is going to sell zero units and burn through their hundreds of billions of dollars in their Scrooge McDuck Money Bin on the new Campus in the next quarter...
Well, saying that they are temporarily giving you an option on your vehicle that you had (and still have) the option to purchase and didn't... it kinda is out of the goodness of their hearts.
Who's forcing Tesla customers to do anything at all? You're talking like someone put a large caliber gun to their head and said "buy this car, and not the one that costs 5% more for 20% more battery, or I'm going to turn your head into a canoe"
They bought the capacity that they bought, with the specs listed. And I think you'll find that the number of Tesla owners that are complaining about this is astonishingly small. The only people grousing about this are people that won't buy a Tesla to begin with and just want to bitch and moan.
Plus, it brings down the cost of manufacture if they have fewer hardware options to build and store in a warehouse until someone buys it. I guess people around here don't like cheaper, right-sized solutions that also can be scaled for out-of-norm loads. Clearly we should be buying more expensive snowflake servers that have shorter lifetimes and require labor hours and further expenditure to upgrade and replace because randoms on Slashdot say so.
You can protest any time you want, but if you want to use city property and expect the city to help you (e.g. close streets) then yes, you need a permit. If you don't close the streets and obstruct traffic with your protest, you are committing a crime - your rights to free speech don't come above others' rights of freedom of movement, or established municipal code.
Feel free to walk around on the sidewalk with a sign and have your protest with no permit, no law enforcement will say a word.
Yes, you have the right to free assembly, but you do not have the right to assemble wherever you wish. If you plan on using municipal property (including public streets that would need to be closed), then you need to get permission from the city. This is not a restriction of free speech or free assembly, it is a restriction on land usage, and a request for the use of city services for public safety.
You are always free to assemble on property that you own, with whomever you wish as long as their rights are not restricted in some legal way (e.g. they are in prison).
So a company that nobody has heard of, who makes / performs a product or service that nobody here can identify, laid off 15 people and that rates the front page of Slashdot now?
Your phone was not "permanently" installed into the car at the time of sale, so your analogy doesn't fit. This device was wired into the car, and could be considered an anti-theft immobilizer device (that's what it is, after all) and a security feature of the vehicle being purchased.
As with all things accounting, the devil lies in the details. I guarantee that in their accounting system, there is a "waterfall" logic applied to any payments - where fees and taxes are paid first, interest second, and principal last. When he paid the payoff of the lease, it paid the $300 early buy out fee, any taxes, this stupid, allegedly undisclosed, and unbelievably unethical $200 fee, and left $200 of principal on the account.
In any legal proceeding, I guarantee this is what the stealership will claim - the car was not paid in full because all fees settle first, and here's a 20 page contract of legal administrivia with the plaintiff's signature on it...
The problem with that is one created of success: if you want to include a new feature on iPhone, it needs to be a feature you can manufacture 200 million of, or you just get tagged by pundits with being unable to follow through, can't execute, overly ambitious, etc.
So, reduce the market by raising the price tag. Now they only need to manufacture 60 million of them, which may be more reasonable for a cutting-edge hardware widget of some kind until the yields come up, at which point they can drop the price to increase demand.
I'm not saying that is what they are doing - they could just be amazingly greedy fuckers that want to bleed customer wallets of every drop they can. But it is a problem that you can't be as agile as a smaller competitor when you require the volume that Apple does, and can't multiple-source because of the lead time of building part factories. You can only manufacture completed products as fast as your supply line can get you the scarcest component.
There's no less than two companies (and maybe more, I just haven't been looking that hard) that make better MacBook Pros than Apple, with the single feature they can't do better is that you can't (legally) run macOS on them.
Both have better displays, better GPUs, better RAM capacity, better CPU options, and are maybe slightly heavier, but not when you figure on all the dongles you'll have to pack around with you on the Mac to plug in shit you already own, or may run across.
Oh, they are also massively cheaper, even before the overpriced dongles. Apple is just behind, and it's by their own doing. And I say this as someone who has used an Apple laptop since the PowerBook 5300.
You don't even have to be in a high performance car to hit the brakes hard enough to send everything flying to the dash - anything with anywhere close to modern disc brakes and good tires will do.
I'd bet that the "smart" features come with a lower price because they're able to sell that information gathered by the "smart" or the advertising space available through the "smart" to other people besides you. Taking that away deprives the company who made the thing of another revenue stream, therefore you will need to pay more up front.
That sounds like a product I *must* not buy. Defective by design - my ISP is having trouble, and now I can't watch OTA content or optical disc storage that has worked without an Internet connection for 20 years?
Why do you assume that Tesla hasn't talked to experts in the industry before going all the way to prototype on this? Especially when the summary (and the article) says that they have?
Do you think that the logistics industry conspired to have some fun with Tesla and get them to spend millions on a prototype that nobody wants? Or, do you possibly think that they sat down and came up with the requirements of such a product, and then Tesla worked to deliver those requirements... just like any other engineering effort ever?
If you were a trucker, then you would know that all trucks are not used for long-haul. In fact, a sizeable fleet of trucks with 53' foot trailers are used for intra-city delivery to large stores. To say otherwise is pure horse shit.
Why would you think it would take a full day to recharge, when any logistics center you stop at would have access to a nice beefy 480V triple-phase power connection on the grid, and plenty of cement on which to build a big beefy charging center right next to their big ass diesel tank and pump? No EV takes a full day to charge, why would this one?
You make an incredibly detailed and informed point.
No wait, you just made a ludicrous statement with absolutely nothing to back it up other than ad hominem attack.
Why can't the batteries be in the trailer? Please, give an actual engineering reason why a suitably smart group of electrical engineers couldn't make it happen.
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Because I'm sure they don't have the tried-and-true PIN entry available still, just like OMG WHAT IF I'M WEARING GLOVES AND IT CAN'T READ MY FINGERPRINT?!
It's not like it takes a room full of PhDs to figure that one out...
Because I'm sure it doesn't have a backup PIN, exactly like the fingerprint thing already does.
Gee, you don't think it's because everybody plays tech stocks with the strategy of "buy on rumor, sell on news" do you?
No, I'm sure it's because the tech geniuses at the hedge funds think these new products are terrible, and that Apple is going to sell zero units and burn through their hundreds of billions of dollars in their Scrooge McDuck Money Bin on the new Campus in the next quarter...
Hint: this happens on every launch day.
Sued for what? Selling the customer exactly what they purchased?
How dare they!
The customer bought a 60kWh battery, and they get 60kWh of electricity out of it. Please tell me what is actionable under any current law.
Well, saying that they are temporarily giving you an option on your vehicle that you had (and still have) the option to purchase and didn't... it kinda is out of the goodness of their hearts.
Who's forcing Tesla customers to do anything at all? You're talking like someone put a large caliber gun to their head and said "buy this car, and not the one that costs 5% more for 20% more battery, or I'm going to turn your head into a canoe"
They bought the capacity that they bought, with the specs listed. And I think you'll find that the number of Tesla owners that are complaining about this is astonishingly small. The only people grousing about this are people that won't buy a Tesla to begin with and just want to bitch and moan.
Plus, it brings down the cost of manufacture if they have fewer hardware options to build and store in a warehouse until someone buys it. I guess people around here don't like cheaper, right-sized solutions that also can be scaled for out-of-norm loads. Clearly we should be buying more expensive snowflake servers that have shorter lifetimes and require labor hours and further expenditure to upgrade and replace because randoms on Slashdot say so.
It was a joke. I've had a 55" 1080p 120Hz LED for like 7 years now. No reason to move away from it yet.
I'm still on NTSC CRT with a fine tuning knob!
You can protest any time you want, but if you want to use city property and expect the city to help you (e.g. close streets) then yes, you need a permit. If you don't close the streets and obstruct traffic with your protest, you are committing a crime - your rights to free speech don't come above others' rights of freedom of movement, or established municipal code.
Feel free to walk around on the sidewalk with a sign and have your protest with no permit, no law enforcement will say a word.
Yes, you have the right to free assembly, but you do not have the right to assemble wherever you wish. If you plan on using municipal property (including public streets that would need to be closed), then you need to get permission from the city. This is not a restriction of free speech or free assembly, it is a restriction on land usage, and a request for the use of city services for public safety.
You are always free to assemble on property that you own, with whomever you wish as long as their rights are not restricted in some legal way (e.g. they are in prison).
Slack has emoji!
So a company that nobody has heard of, who makes / performs a product or service that nobody here can identify, laid off 15 people and that rates the front page of Slashdot now?
Seriously?
Your phone was not "permanently" installed into the car at the time of sale, so your analogy doesn't fit. This device was wired into the car, and could be considered an anti-theft immobilizer device (that's what it is, after all) and a security feature of the vehicle being purchased.
As with all things accounting, the devil lies in the details. I guarantee that in their accounting system, there is a "waterfall" logic applied to any payments - where fees and taxes are paid first, interest second, and principal last. When he paid the payoff of the lease, it paid the $300 early buy out fee, any taxes, this stupid, allegedly undisclosed, and unbelievably unethical $200 fee, and left $200 of principal on the account.
In any legal proceeding, I guarantee this is what the stealership will claim - the car was not paid in full because all fees settle first, and here's a 20 page contract of legal administrivia with the plaintiff's signature on it...
The problem with that is one created of success: if you want to include a new feature on iPhone, it needs to be a feature you can manufacture 200 million of, or you just get tagged by pundits with being unable to follow through, can't execute, overly ambitious, etc.
So, reduce the market by raising the price tag. Now they only need to manufacture 60 million of them, which may be more reasonable for a cutting-edge hardware widget of some kind until the yields come up, at which point they can drop the price to increase demand.
I'm not saying that is what they are doing - they could just be amazingly greedy fuckers that want to bleed customer wallets of every drop they can. But it is a problem that you can't be as agile as a smaller competitor when you require the volume that Apple does, and can't multiple-source because of the lead time of building part factories. You can only manufacture completed products as fast as your supply line can get you the scarcest component.
There's no less than two companies (and maybe more, I just haven't been looking that hard) that make better MacBook Pros than Apple, with the single feature they can't do better is that you can't (legally) run macOS on them.
https://www.razerzone.com/gami...
http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop...
Both have better displays, better GPUs, better RAM capacity, better CPU options, and are maybe slightly heavier, but not when you figure on all the dongles you'll have to pack around with you on the Mac to plug in shit you already own, or may run across.
Oh, they are also massively cheaper, even before the overpriced dongles. Apple is just behind, and it's by their own doing. And I say this as someone who has used an Apple laptop since the PowerBook 5300.
You don't even have to be in a high performance car to hit the brakes hard enough to send everything flying to the dash - anything with anywhere close to modern disc brakes and good tires will do.
Deceleration is no joke.
You heard it here first! It's Harry Truman's fault that a Samsung executive has yet again been convicted of bribery, embezzlement.
Thanks, Truman! You long dead asshole!
I'd bet that the "smart" features come with a lower price because they're able to sell that information gathered by the "smart" or the advertising space available through the "smart" to other people besides you. Taking that away deprives the company who made the thing of another revenue stream, therefore you will need to pay more up front.
That sounds like a product I *must* not buy. Defective by design - my ISP is having trouble, and now I can't watch OTA content or optical disc storage that has worked without an Internet connection for 20 years?
Fuck that, and fuck Vizio.
Why go through connecting it to your network, and then actively blocking it?
Just don't set up any wireless / plug in any ethernet. Hey look, updates are disabled!
And, if they included some ridiculous cellular connection just for updating, you're fucked anyway - don't buy it.
Why do you assume that Tesla hasn't talked to experts in the industry before going all the way to prototype on this? Especially when the summary (and the article) says that they have?
Do you think that the logistics industry conspired to have some fun with Tesla and get them to spend millions on a prototype that nobody wants? Or, do you possibly think that they sat down and came up with the requirements of such a product, and then Tesla worked to deliver those requirements... just like any other engineering effort ever?
If you were a trucker, then you would know that all trucks are not used for long-haul. In fact, a sizeable fleet of trucks with 53' foot trailers are used for intra-city delivery to large stores. To say otherwise is pure horse shit.
Why would you think it would take a full day to recharge, when any logistics center you stop at would have access to a nice beefy 480V triple-phase power connection on the grid, and plenty of cement on which to build a big beefy charging center right next to their big ass diesel tank and pump? No EV takes a full day to charge, why would this one?
Don't spread FUD.
You make an incredibly detailed and informed point.
No wait, you just made a ludicrous statement with absolutely nothing to back it up other than ad hominem attack.
Why can't the batteries be in the trailer? Please, give an actual engineering reason why a suitably smart group of electrical engineers couldn't make it happen.