>Apple has $250 billion in cash, so this doesn't strike me as a huge concern.
It's not their money, it's the shareholders. It might be tough to make a case to them to jump into this market.
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It's not their money, it's the shareholders. It might be tough to make a case to them to jump into this market.
Perhaps not "insurmountable"...
...but you realize that what Apple currently manufactures is equivalent to one single, near-insignificant component of what goes into a car: the on-board navigation system.
Building a car is hard. I don't think Apple can't do it, but I'm convinced they won't find it "worth it".
You make it sound as if the government is just dying to simplify this stuff, but Intuit won't let them.
Intuit lobbies in its self interest. There is nothing wrong with that. The damage is done by the politicians who listen to the lobbying effort and play along.
Which is odd, because I've used Turbotax (and others) in Canada and it's also been a breeze.
I bet if they knocked her unconscious and dragged her from the pool, they'd be in trouble too. At least I hope so.
Isn't the whole point of police training to learn to deal with these situations safely and as peacefully as possible? If you can just shoot or punch everyone who's causing a disturbance, what do you need any training for?
I assume the OP means he's probably doing well enough to not want his teeth kicked in for a payday. Like most of us here.
Pretty much. If you're at war you need that materials to feed the war machine, which includes the metal to build the plane as well as the computers that go in the cockpit (and let's not forget the knowledge to build it all).
Thankfully we have enlightened people among us to guide the sheep, right?
>that it's not EU versus US versus China but rather corporations versus the people
Corporations have zero ability to act by themselves. So where do you propose to draw the between the "corporation team" and the "people team"?
I agree with you. But there's a pretty heavy burden of proof on any denigration of Tesla around here. That and I think some of the old guard of auto manufacturing would love to stick it to Musk.
I agree.
My point is that unless those employees choose to sell their stock at below market prices (for whatever reason), then market prices won't budge. Stock prices don't fall because lots of people decide to sell; people are selling stock all day, every day, yet prices rise. It's all about that price and company prospects.
I probably being overly pedantic.
And those in the public school system are juuuuusssst fine...
You expect the employees to start dumping their stock at fire-sale prices? Otherwise, how do prices tumble in a market? The buyer and seller have to agree on price.
The combined market cap of these companies for which digital advertising is the main product is staggering...and sad.
Have you read these threads? There are people here who claim to have invested all their savings into TSLA, and yet seem fairly clueless about the industry in which Tesla competes. The more things that get announced, the more they want in.
Tesla haven't yet proven that they can reliably build a cheap, profitable vehicle at scale, but still people talk about the next one and the next one...
Meanwhile, the Bolt is out, reviews are positive, and HN doesn't talk much about it. Not Elon, I guess.
http://www.motortrend.com/cars/chevrolet/bolt-ev/2017/2017-c...
That Jeff Bezos is "allowing" counterfeit goods on Amazon to ruin the customer experience? Yes, that's untrue.
I'm sure if he could snap his fingers and fix the problem, he would. But the problem is a bit more nuanced than that, and can't be solved over night (perhaps ever, if the analogy is digital piracy).
If there is no potential for harm (like with medications), throw it out there and see what happens. The market will validate the technology, one way or another.
Also time. Something like a fundamental travel industry shakeup could take decades. Here's hoping. As a Canadian, crossing that border is getting less and less appealing.
Not me, or most people here.
Yet Google and Facebook are things.
Interesting. I guess my poor attitude makes that 30 karma threshold a tough row!
There's a big benefit for Panasonic supplying a company with hot products, like Tesla. But outside of whatever contractual obligations they have, there's nothing stopping them.
I implore you to look around at these industries from other sources. If you only read HackerNews, you'd think Tesla is the only company that can make a decent EV (even though motortrend said the Bolt performed nearly as well, had longer range and was $30k cheaper than the Model 60), that no one is close with self-driving and that Tesla are the only one providing this type of solar panel or battery storage solution. These are all hyper competitive, low margin spaces.
Tesla is doing some very cool things, but the unjustified hype is going to blow up in people's faces. Expectations are too high.
It's even more mind-blowing that you think Musk is infallible, and that he's poring over the schematics of every in development.
Precisely my point in bringing it up. Someone, who apparently worked at John Deere, offers an opposing view and some clown shouts him down like a bully. Why should anyone listen to the arguments of hypocrites?
If you're against this sort of thing, you're against it.
Maybe you are.
>Farmers complain that they have to wait for an authorized JD mechanic to fix even the most simple stuff
Actually, it says in the article that they can fix simple things.
And real pay to go along with it?
Are you unable to change these components on your John Deere vehicle?
FTA:
""Maybe a gasket or something you can fix, but everything else is computer controlled and so if it breaks down I'm really in a bad spot,"