Why would we need the source? The app is a folder of files. app code separate from libraries and assets. We can see from that what's taking up space. We can't see if from looking at the source.
Large size app packages are invariably caused by sizes of assets, not code. In the case of games that's usually inevitable. But for most other apps, it usually means that no engineer has bothered to look at what assets are shipping, and get rid of the ones that aren't used, and think of ways to save space on those that are.
Nothing wrong with my maths or political knowledge, sunshine.
Those dates mean everything. No car manufacturer is going to design a car that increasingly will be banned in various countries. The early year of 2025 is only 8 years away. Car manufacturers want a longer life than that for a new car design. They'll do the odd quick makeover on existing designs, but there will be pretty much no new ICE cars designed now.
What you are going to see is similar to what happened to CRT televisions. Flat screens were around for a few years, but were too expensive for all but commercial use and a few early adopters. Then the price fell till they were close to the CRT, then CRTs just disappeared out of the stores. You couldn't buy one if you wanted one. When the mass switch over happened, it actually happened really quickly.
Ultimately there will be charge points most places that cars are parked. Every stall in a car park. Every parking spot by the side of the road.
But even as it stands right now, there are apartment dwellers that have bought EVs. It just needs more planning. If you're just doing short trips around town, you probably don't need to charge every day, but perhaps twice a week. And rapid chargers can charge batteries in a reasonable amount of time now. 30 mins gives a lot of charge.
Right now you probably need to be an enthusiast of you don't have your own off street parking. But with improving ranges and more chargers each year, and increasing charging speeds, the gap will only get smaller.
Experience seems to be that people worry far too much about battery degradation. Sure, if you buy are really old used EV it might have lost 20% of it's battery capacity. But equally an old ICE car will have lost a proportion of it's power and fuel efficiency. You have to accept that one reason an old used car is cheap is that it's not good as a new car.
You're thinking of Renault. Nissan also does it as an option on the Leaf.
It may lower the sticker price on a new car, but it's a really bad idea. First of all, battery degradation has shown not to be an issue. Pretty much the batteries tend to have a useful life the same as the car itself. And they are unlikely to have a complete failure and need replacing.
But rather than making selling a car easier, it makes it very much more difficult. People who are buying a used car rarely want to get roped in to an obligation to pay a monthly fee to lease the battery.
All in all the battery leasing experiment has been a bad one.
Not that hard? Show me another manufacturer that makes thousands of cars per month and has a 2 year waiting list of people that have paid deposits.
Of course Ford are bigger. But Ford isn't growing like Tesla. There was a time when IBM was bigger than Microsoft and Apple. Things change. And it's obvious to anyone that's paying attention than things are changing big time in the car industry.
Again your price target of $17,000 for a car like the Model 3 is moronic. The Model 3 will continue to sell like hot cakes at the price it is. It's other EVs that will fill the space below the Model 3.
Well not so long. Governments are already setting the dates when Gas powered cars will no longer be allowed to be sold.
Norway and Netherlands, 2025. India 2030. UK 2040.
And the fact that governments are going to be banning sales in the coming years, means that no car company is going to spend any time creating new ICE designs. They're going to be finishing some existing developments, but pretty much all new car developments will be EVs.
ICE vehicles are on their way out I'm very happy to say.
I've seen many videos of people driving Model S and Model X cars. And never once has the screen been unreadable, no matter what the light conditions or direction of the sun. Nor have I heard any owners complain about it.
It's almost as if Tesla knew the panel was going to be installed in a car and specced it appropriately and adjust brightness on the fly as required.
But hey, you go on coming up with the first objecti0on that enters your head, regardless of whether it's an actual problem with Tesla cars or not.
Gas? How quaint. With EVs those slowdowns on the downslopes regenerate, so there's not much in it. And provided you have the range, the electricity itself is cheap.
The places where you can't let the car either drive itself or at least control the speed are shrinking.
Personally, I have my ACC on the vast majority of the time. Just flicking the speed limit up or down when the limit changes.
In a modern car you're less concerned with speedometer speed. It used to be that you had to constantly adjust your driving to stay under the limit. Now there's either adaptive cruise control, where you set the speed limit for the road, and then you don't care again.Or there's autonomous capability that knows the speed limit via the navigation system and/or computer recognition of a speed limit sign you passed.
OK, none of this stuff is perfect yet, and there are times when you need to consult the speedo. But it is still there. Just off to your side rather than directly in front.
You can't say any of the curves are unnecessary, since you haven't taken it through a wind tunnel. (Real or virtual). Tesla have, and lowering the air resistance is a high priority.
No doubt you would have complained about the first cats that didn't have chrome bumpers (fenders).
Form follows function. EVs don't need grills. You can expect that no car in the future will have a grill. And that doesn't mean they'll be less attractive. It just means you are conservative in your taste. Your idea or what looks good is something that looks not very different from what you've seen before.
It's a car for people who want to take as little part in the driving as possible. It's designed as a car that drives itself most of the time. Even though the Tesla autonomy is not up to delivering on that yet.
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Why would we need the source? The app is a folder of files. app code separate from libraries and assets. We can see from that what's taking up space. We can't see if from looking at the source.
Large size app packages are invariably caused by sizes of assets, not code. In the case of games that's usually inevitable. But for most other apps, it usually means that no engineer has bothered to look at what assets are shipping, and get rid of the ones that aren't used, and think of ways to save space on those that are.
Yes, they are. And now you've looked it up and feel like the fool you are.
I tend to buy cars that are 3-5 years old, and then drive them into the ground. So I know where you are coming from. But I don't expect any warranty.
And with an EV I don't think I'd need one on the battery. Time has shown that they are far more reliable and long lasting than people would think.
But in any case, if you are buying cars that are 1-+ years old, you can't expect the car industry to care less what you want.
Actually, all the features he mentioned are in the $35,000 base model.
You're not very informed are you.
Go on then. Show us a deal where you can get a new Ford Fusion for $17,000.
Well that was a contentless answer.
Nothing wrong with my maths or political knowledge, sunshine.
Those dates mean everything. No car manufacturer is going to design a car that increasingly will be banned in various countries. The early year of 2025 is only 8 years away. Car manufacturers want a longer life than that for a new car design. They'll do the odd quick makeover on existing designs, but there will be pretty much no new ICE cars designed now.
What you are going to see is similar to what happened to CRT televisions. Flat screens were around for a few years, but were too expensive for all but commercial use and a few early adopters. Then the price fell till they were close to the CRT, then CRTs just disappeared out of the stores. You couldn't buy one if you wanted one. When the mass switch over happened, it actually happened really quickly.
It would be bad for consumers. Only being able to use a subset of chargers is a negative. The more different incompatible systems, the worse it is.
Tesla's battery warranty isn't bad.
8 year unlimited milage on the Model S & X.
8 year 100K or 120K on the Model 3.
Ultimately there will be charge points most places that cars are parked. Every stall in a car park. Every parking spot by the side of the road.
But even as it stands right now, there are apartment dwellers that have bought EVs. It just needs more planning. If you're just doing short trips around town, you probably don't need to charge every day, but perhaps twice a week. And rapid chargers can charge batteries in a reasonable amount of time now. 30 mins gives a lot of charge.
Right now you probably need to be an enthusiast of you don't have your own off street parking. But with improving ranges and more chargers each year, and increasing charging speeds, the gap will only get smaller.
Experience seems to be that people worry far too much about battery degradation. Sure, if you buy are really old used EV it might have lost 20% of it's battery capacity. But equally an old ICE car will have lost a proportion of it's power and fuel efficiency. You have to accept that one reason an old used car is cheap is that it's not good as a new car.
You're thinking of Renault. Nissan also does it as an option on the Leaf.
It may lower the sticker price on a new car, but it's a really bad idea. First of all, battery degradation has shown not to be an issue. Pretty much the batteries tend to have a useful life the same as the car itself. And they are unlikely to have a complete failure and need replacing.
But rather than making selling a car easier, it makes it very much more difficult. People who are buying a used car rarely want to get roped in to an obligation to pay a monthly fee to lease the battery.
All in all the battery leasing experiment has been a bad one.
Not that hard? Show me another manufacturer that makes thousands of cars per month and has a 2 year waiting list of people that have paid deposits.
Of course Ford are bigger. But Ford isn't growing like Tesla. There was a time when IBM was bigger than Microsoft and Apple. Things change. And it's obvious to anyone that's paying attention than things are changing big time in the car industry.
Again your price target of $17,000 for a car like the Model 3 is moronic. The Model 3 will continue to sell like hot cakes at the price it is. It's other EVs that will fill the space below the Model 3.
Well not so long. Governments are already setting the dates when Gas powered cars will no longer be allowed to be sold.
Norway and Netherlands, 2025. India 2030. UK 2040.
And the fact that governments are going to be banning sales in the coming years, means that no car company is going to spend any time creating new ICE designs. They're going to be finishing some existing developments, but pretty much all new car developments will be EVs.
ICE vehicles are on their way out I'm very happy to say.
Those are the facts and the logic, old timer.
But they are getting cheaper. The trend is for price parity in 2020. From then on EVs are cheaper.
Meanwhile, EVs are close enough in price that people that prefer them will pay extra to get one.
But really saying that the Model 3 ought to be $17K when at $35K they have a 2 year waiting list of people that all paid a deposit. It's moronic.
I've seen many videos of people driving Model S and Model X cars. And never once has the screen been unreadable, no matter what the light conditions or direction of the sun. Nor have I heard any owners complain about it.
It's almost as if Tesla knew the panel was going to be installed in a car and specced it appropriately and adjust brightness on the fly as required.
But hey, you go on coming up with the first objecti0on that enters your head, regardless of whether it's an actual problem with Tesla cars or not.
Gas? How quaint. With EVs those slowdowns on the downslopes regenerate, so there's not much in it. And provided you have the range, the electricity itself is cheap.
The places where you can't let the car either drive itself or at least control the speed are shrinking.
Personally, I have my ACC on the vast majority of the time. Just flicking the speed limit up or down when the limit changes.
In a modern car you're less concerned with speedometer speed. It used to be that you had to constantly adjust your driving to stay under the limit. Now there's either adaptive cruise control, where you set the speed limit for the road, and then you don't care again.Or there's autonomous capability that knows the speed limit via the navigation system and/or computer recognition of a speed limit sign you passed.
OK, none of this stuff is perfect yet, and there are times when you need to consult the speedo. But it is still there. Just off to your side rather than directly in front.
Minis have always had their speedo in the centre of the car. It's never harmed their sales.
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You can't say any of the curves are unnecessary, since you haven't taken it through a wind tunnel. (Real or virtual). Tesla have, and lowering the air resistance is a high priority.
No doubt you would have complained about the first cats that didn't have chrome bumpers (fenders).
Form follows function. EVs don't need grills. You can expect that no car in the future will have a grill. And that doesn't mean they'll be less attractive. It just means you are conservative in your taste. Your idea or what looks good is something that looks not very different from what you've seen before.
That means you know fuck all about EVs. There are no EVs with this range for $17K.
It's a car for people who want to take as little part in the driving as possible. It's designed as a car that drives itself most of the time. Even though the Tesla autonomy is not up to delivering on that yet.
There's already more than 4 EVs. With a lot more arriving even by 2020, So that's not an issue.
Price is still an issue though.
Now: Take a taxi.
In the future: summon an autonomous vehicle.