The 6502 was the processor that people who thought the M6800 was too expensive bought. The Z80 was the processor that people who thought the 8080 was too expensive bought.
Too many bean counter CEOs. Their CEOs used to be EEs. Now they are financial "geniuses" who know jack shit about the business they are supposedly running.
They don't purposefully take a 3.8 GHz processor and throttle it down to 3.2 GHz so they can sell it for less money. They sell the 3.8 GHz unit as a 3.8 GHz unit. and the one that runs at 3.2 GHz reliably is sold as a 3.2 GHz processor.
Actually Intel and other CPU vendors do this all the time. Say a vendor orders a bunch of 3.2 GHz processors. If they don't have enough low binner processors to fullfill the order they use higher binned ones and clock them lower.
Well you can never expect them to compete with Ford across the board at current battery prices. Tesla simply can't cover the bottom half of the market which is where most car sales actually are. Not most of the profits though.
Not just to investors. I was more unfortunate than that. They actually made available these blood testing services which simply provided totally bogus analysis results. Or in the case where the analysis were reliable the tests were conducted with machines other than their own.
The consensus seems to be it is not possible to make reliable testing with the minuscule amount of blood they claimed was necessary nor with blood samples taken in the finger like they claimed.
I think everyone agrees that electric cars can be made and there are several examples of that. So at least the technology is doable. If there is any bullshit with regards to Tesla it might be some of their claims about Autopilot. But it is not like the business began with that features. It is not the main reason why people buy a Tesla either I think. People buy Teslas because they like the idea of having an electric car which has high torque, nice top speed, they can charge at home, has low noise, etc. I think Autopilot was never a main concern. It is more of a gimmick than anything.
You might argue about the financial viability of Tesla or it's business model but even their competitors think their product are solid technology wise for what they are.
What they have are manufacturing and quality control issues.
It is not surprising they missed their target deliveries this quarter. Their logistics system is dysfunctional. Since deliveries this quarter were mostly for European and Asian markets, i.e. where the remaining high-end customers still to be served are, this made it even worse. Did you catch the news about a bunch of Model 3's stuck in customs in China some a couple of weeks back because of a labeling issue? Or how Elon made Tesla employees personally deliver vehicles to customers to meet their numbers? Those are just some of the issues. Their logistics suck.
It's not the same thing. Theranos advertised a product which they never actually delivered. That they could do a variety of blood tests with a small blood sample which they did not.
Tesla sells an actual product that does work as advertised.
i.e. it's the anti-Steve Jobs model. He tried to make something he would like to use himself and then sold it. Quite often before most of the market catched up.
I think someone saw the recent success of the Epic Game store recently and wanted to make a buck replicating it. I mean the business model with game "exclusives". Since we already had online game stores before. I agree that this mainly seems like an attempt to copy the people who are making money on services. Without even thinking if the product provides anything people want.
Last Apple product I bought was the iPhone 3GS. Went to Android and never looked back. I still remember the last time Apple wanted to make a business out of selling "digital" newspapers. Fact is paid print media is mostly dead. So do tell me about market trends then.
Is it? What if you used compressed air instead of gunpower to pass the sniff test and some other high resistance material other than metal on the slugs?
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The 6502 was the processor that people who thought the M6800 was too expensive bought.
The Z80 was the processor that people who thought the 8080 was too expensive bought.
There have been several lawsuits against emulators and they always fail.
Now distributing ROMs that's another thing.
Too many bean counter CEOs.
Their CEOs used to be EEs.
Now they are financial "geniuses" who know jack shit about the business they are supposedly running.
Playstation V.
Good riddance.
The people who pre-ordered the car only made a small deposit on it. They didn't pay the full amount.
They don't purposefully take a 3.8 GHz processor and throttle it down to 3.2 GHz so they can sell it for less money. They sell the 3.8 GHz unit as a 3.8 GHz unit. and the one that runs at 3.2 GHz reliably is sold as a 3.2 GHz processor.
Actually Intel and other CPU vendors do this all the time. Say a vendor orders a bunch of 3.2 GHz processors. If they don't have enough low binner processors to fullfill the order they use higher binned ones and clock them lower.
It's called artificial scarcity.
You know, the supposedly next big thing in "inexpensive" write-once storage.
Planet of the Apes.
Well you can never expect them to compete with Ford across the board at current battery prices.
Tesla simply can't cover the bottom half of the market which is where most car sales actually are.
Not most of the profits though.
Not just to investors. I was more unfortunate than that. They actually made available these blood testing services which simply provided totally bogus analysis results. Or in the case where the analysis were reliable the tests were conducted with machines other than their own.
The consensus seems to be it is not possible to make reliable testing with the minuscule amount of blood they claimed was necessary nor with blood samples taken in the finger like they claimed.
I think everyone agrees that electric cars can be made and there are several examples of that. So at least the technology is doable. If there is any bullshit with regards to Tesla it might be some of their claims about Autopilot. But it is not like the business began with that features. It is not the main reason why people buy a Tesla either I think. People buy Teslas because they like the idea of having an electric car which has high torque, nice top speed, they can charge at home, has low noise, etc. I think Autopilot was never a main concern. It is more of a gimmick than anything.
You might argue about the financial viability of Tesla or it's business model but even their competitors think their product are solid technology wise for what they are.
What they have are manufacturing and quality control issues.
It is not surprising they missed their target deliveries this quarter. Their logistics system is dysfunctional. Since deliveries this quarter were mostly for European and Asian markets, i.e. where the remaining high-end customers still to be served are, this made it even worse. Did you catch the news about a bunch of Model 3's stuck in customs in China some a couple of weeks back because of a labeling issue? Or how Elon made Tesla employees personally deliver vehicles to customers to meet their numbers? Those are just some of the issues. Their logistics suck.
It's not the same thing. Theranos advertised a product which they never actually delivered. That they could do a variety of blood tests with a small blood sample which they did not.
Tesla sells an actual product that does work as advertised.
So does Tim Sweeney think he's going to plaster ads and datamine user information like Facebook?
Having personally met and talked with the guy once I respected him more than that.
i.e. it's the anti-Steve Jobs model. He tried to make something he would like to use himself and then sold it. Quite often before most of the market catched up.
I think someone saw the recent success of the Epic Game store recently and wanted to make a buck replicating it. I mean the business model with game "exclusives". Since we already had online game stores before. I agree that this mainly seems like an attempt to copy the people who are making money on services. Without even thinking if the product provides anything people want.
Last Apple product I bought was the iPhone 3GS. Went to Android and never looked back.
I still remember the last time Apple wanted to make a business out of selling "digital" newspapers. Fact is paid print media is mostly dead.
So do tell me about market trends then.
Apple seems to be desperate. Launching so many services with either paid subscriptions or captive market models in an attempt to gain revenue.
People typically don't like shit like this though.
Is it? What if you used compressed air instead of gunpower to pass the sniff test and some other high resistance material other than metal on the slugs?
A lot of European cities already have electric (for shorter routes) and natural gas buses (for longer routes).
The overhead wires are ugly. That alone means they won't be used in a lot of places.
Well they aren't good times for an oil export driven economy. Just for everyone else.
Just look at the squeeze Saudi Arabia is doing to their wealthy class to get money now that oil is down.
It sounds like a great way to reduce insurance liability.
Nah it's probably some kind of toxin.
I mean, third generation by now, and they even have a blessed by God myth. What else do you need to call it a monarchy?