Re:Ask HN: How did Apple manage to create such a better chip...
by fstopmick on Saturday December 12, 2020 @05:56PM
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> How did Tesla manage to create this when GM has been making cars for decades and that is the singular focus of the company?
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I think it's the power of vertical integrations. When you aren't cobbling together a bunch of general-purpose bits for general-purpose consumers, you don't have to pay as many taxes. Sort of like SRP in software - a multi-purpose function is going to become super bloated and expensive to maintain, compared to several single-purpose alternatives.
(replaced the subjects with auto-industry corollaries)
I think it's the power of vertical integrations. When you aren't cobbling together a bunch of general-purpose bits for general-purpose consumers, you don't have to pay as many taxes. Sort of like SRP in software - a multi-purpose function is going to become super bloated and expensive to maintain, compared to several single-purpose alternatives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-responsibility_principl...
Vertical integration is like taking horizontally-integrated business units and refactoring them per SOLID principles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID