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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by maxxxxx on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:26PM (#19744170)
Dream on. Cars aren’t software.
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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by bobsil1 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:10AM (#19744910)
Nope. Car differentiators are going to be tablet screen + special-purpose AI. Dumb cars = vinyl.
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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by maxxxxx on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:53AM (#19745093)
A car is a thing to get from A to B in a reliable manner. Screens and AI are secondary.
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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by bobsil1 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:32AM (#19746137)
“A phone is for voice calls.”
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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by maxxxxx on Thursday April 25, 2019 @09:57AM (#19748145)
Current smartphones are an evolution of the PDA idea that started with the Apple Newton, Palm Pilot and others. People always dreamed of a handheld device that would enable them to communicate and get information. What do you expect a car to do other than carting people around? Once it can go autonomously from A to B what else will people use a car for?
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