MagSafe is an inferior product to what AirPower was meant to be, and to this charger released by Tesla. MagSafe is just a standard qi charger with a few magnets to align it. It’s not rocket science and it doesn’t charge more than a thing at once.
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Yeah, they seem to have gotten some Model Y's out the door but I can't seem to find volume numbers on the Y. It's interesting though that they delivered 78k, 80k, and 93k Model 3s in the last 3 quarters of 2019, then fell back to 76k and 80k combined volume of 3's and Ys in the first two quarters of 2020. It seems like maybe they weren't shipping many Ys those first couple quarters and those they did ship caused their production to choke up. Given Tesla's history, I wouldn't put it past them to ship one and call it success.
And I seem to remember there was a lot of talk of low cost models, but that bait was switched with $60k+ versions.
But yes, they at least announced the Model Y shipped a couple quarters early, so they must have delivered some. So I guess your point was that "similar was said about the 3, the Y, the Semi, and the Cybertruck" and they were maybe wrong once.
volume is irrelevant as they said model y would begin deliveries in fall.
also model 3 wasn't late either.
The power online blogs have to literally shape public opinion is crazy to me.
Musk‘s made some poor decisions with Twitter in regard of user policies, but they’re ultimately very low level decisions and were quickly reversed. I mean looking at it, what are the big mistakes he’s actually made? Enforced an unworkable policy in a misguided attempt to ban doxxing? Oh no! The horror, the horror!
When putting aside all of the clickbait blog nonsense, he managed to reduce the workforce by 80% and maintain the same technical service on Twitter - saving the company hundreds of millions of dollars. He opened a new revenue stream in Twitter Blue, which is still developing. He’s actually laid out a path for Twitter’s development as a business into an ‘everything app’ to rival YouTube, Instagram, etc. He revealed they’ve been undertaking further cost cutting, identifying that the company was haemorrhaging money to SMS suppliers for 2fa, many of which were fraudulently using bots to make requests. He even managed to get literally all of the advertisement revenue to come back to Twitter following one of the most severe media attacks I’ve ever seen against a company.
On top of all of that, he’s also attempting to pioneer a new way in running a tech company. He’s actually giving service users an active voice in shaping how the company is run (although his sole biggest mistake was running the poll on whether he should step down - he did so at the worst possible time). I mean imagine Apple let service users have a say in whether they continued to use slave labour, etc? It would be revolutionary.
Musk‘s made some poor decisions with Twitter in regard of user policies, but they’re ultimately very low level decisions and were quickly reversed. I mean looking at it, what are the big mistakes he’s actually made? Enforced an unworkable policy in a misguided attempt to ban doxxing? Oh no! The horror, the horror!
When putting aside all of the clickbait blog nonsense, he managed to reduce the workforce by 80% and maintain the same technical service on Twitter - saving the company hundreds of millions of dollars. He opened a new revenue stream in Twitter Blue, which is still developing. He’s actually laid out a path for Twitter’s development as a business into an ‘everything app’ to rival YouTube, Instagram, etc. He revealed they’ve been undertaking further cost cutting, identifying that the company was haemorrhaging money to SMS suppliers for 2fa, many of which were fraudulently using bots to make requests. He even managed to get literally all of the advertisement revenue to come back to Twitter following one of the most severe media attacks I’ve ever seen against a company.
On top of all of that, he’s also attempting to pioneer a new way in running a tech company. He’s actually giving service users an active voice in shaping how the company is run (although his sole biggest mistake was running the poll on whether he should step down - he did so at the worst possible time). I mean imagine Apple let service users have a say in whether they continued to use slave labour, etc? It would be revolutionary.
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Not just rumors, didn't the XS ship with references to the AirPower literally in the quick start documents?
I heard they were shooting for something much smaller and more nimble than a pickup truck, to be named the Apple Cart.
Volume is everything.
To which I agreed:
Planned 100k units in 2017 and delivered less than 2% of that...
He is trying to turn Twitter from being heavily advertising funded to being more user funded. The problem is that his rate of ~$100/yr for paid user accounts is less than Twitter made from advertising for those same users.
Even if that weren't true, you would expect someone try to try for a smooth transition (even if they were trying to execute quickly because they piled debt on in a leveraged buyout). There have been very few wins (and tons of losses) in maintaining existing advertiser relationships. This includes laying off the account reps, leaving these advertisers with no mode of contact (except I suppose hoping Elon notices they 'at' him).
Meanwhile, the Blue checkmark devastated their trust in the platform to maintain their brand value, while him reinstating accounts has caused a lot of advertisers to be reluctant to risk having their brand associated with the platform in general.
Twitter is hemorrhaging revenue at a time where they have dramatically increased their debt. For ~200 million monetizable users pre-acquisition, they need to get about 10 million of them (~5%) to buy into Twitter Blue just to offset the interest on their new debt, without taking into account paying employees, hosting, or trying to get out from under that massive lead balloon.
That is why the advertisers backing out and even non-advertising brands leaving Twitter was such a big deal - he needs all that advertising revenue AND needs an unheard-of conversion to paid accounts in order for Twitter to survive.
Independent reference for that 80% number?
Twitter Blue already existed. He just raised the price, and promised a few features which either haven't actually shipped or which got pulled back for being horrible ideas (which I suppose is also his Tesla playbook).
I'd love an independent reference for this as well.
This Qi charger isn’t going to make up for this disastrous failing Semi truck that it being ripped by truckers.
www.hotcars.com
Or Musk himself almost getting mashed by his own car.
Here's Why Real Truckers Don't Like The Tesla Semi
The all-electric Tesla Semi is proving unpopular with professional truck drivers due to long charging times and impractical seating configuration.
www.hotcars.com
Or Musk himself almost getting mashed by his own car.
But... it hasn't been released. It's been announced and they're taking money, but it hasn't been released.
Like the truck.
You are of course joking? Elon didn't invent EV's.They been around centuries! Elon didn't invent lithium batteries and Tesla batteries are from Panasonic. Tesla didn't invent vacuum tube travel. That's been around a century too. he couldn't even invent a name for his company, he had to usurp the name of a great inventor (who must be turning in his grave). Elon struck lucky with Pay Pal...that's it.
Although Apple didn't progress with the charger, I would be very surprised if they don't still own the patents.
Make that same charger white, round some corners and slap an Apple logo on it and suddenly even Apple could get away by charing $300 for it. Sure, some people would still complain but they always do whether its the wheels for Mac Pro or adding a height adjustable Pro Display stand on their display product.
If Apple had released their own version of this back when it was supposed to released, I'm sure they would have priced it at $199 or $250. Now considering the current inflation etc, I'm sure they would not hesitate to slap 299 for the markets outside US for a similar product like this.
And for another $8/month, they'll even paint it blue.
Are they still selling it or it’s now made of fake meat?
Volkswagen banned meat in their cantins in trying to become woke. So better get a Tesla next time.
Like him or not, Musk is an industry pattern shaker, quite similar to Jobs in that respect. It is a pity Apple & Tesla do not get along, they could have done wonders working alongside.
you wrote 5 paragraphs before you wrote this line, you absolutely care whether people like a billionaire or not lol
Looks like they’re trying to go for easy revenue there: Take existing third-party technology, put it into a housing with a Tesla label, and hope that enough people are willing to pay a premium for the branding.
A couple of years ago, that would probably have been an almost guaranteed success. However, Musk’s current antics may well have hurt the brand too much for it to work. (They definitely have in my little bubble of tech-interested people, but I don’t know about the sentiment in the broader population.)
Ultimately the entirety of your post is in regard of the advertisement revenue. You make a fairly spurious claim about Twitter transitioning from being advertiser funded to user funded but there isn’t much to respond to there, because I think it’s fairly clear the intention is to be both user and advertiser funded.
Whilst I’m sure not all of the advertiser revenue has returned, the largest advertisers have, which includes Apple and Amazon. https://news.sky.com/story/big-adve...zon-returning-to-twitter-says-report-12761312
Even analysts predict that advertiser revenue will stabilise. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/16/pub...-get-back-to-twitter-on-these-conditions.html
Musk has laid out his rationale for turning Twitter around, expecting to get into a break even position next year. https://www.reuters.com/technology/...be-cash-flow-break-even-next-year-2022-12-21/
PS- as per the above sources, Twitter currently sits at 2000 employees, down from over 7500. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/04/twitter-layoffs-elon-musk-revenue-drop
There’s an old adage in finance ‘Nobody knows anything’.
Predictions about future revenues and market directions are almost always worthless. A month ago those analysts on CNBC said there would be a Xmas bull market rally. Instead the market went south.
And Musk himself is the Clown Prince of predictions.