I highly doubt that a company that just DDoS'ed its main service less than a month ago will be able to offer such broader functionality. This is just vapourware and inane marketing at its finest, like only Elon Rush could muster. 🤦♂️
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Or that. Hey, it's indeed a great asset, and if Tesla ever goes into liquidation, it's something that one of the other big automakers, or maybe one of those oil companies trying to greenwash themselves, would love to get their grubby little hands on. Win-win situation.
Except if he didn’t piss off customers , he would have more customers. Achieving only a portion of your total potential success is not good business.
Also, record deliveries after record price cuts is a metric that should be expected, but isn’t a good indicator of overall strength.
Good grief.
How big of a temper tantrum is he going to throw when everyone continues to call it twitter and refer to tweets as.. tweets?
SMFH
How big of a temper tantrum is he going to throw when everyone continues to call it twitter and refer to tweets as.. tweets?
SMFH
Not only that, humans in general HATE change. It's not being averse to, and not an autistic thing or whatever. They subconsciously HATE it and react very badly to it. As such, any and all rebrandings the I've ever known of (almost always forced by mergers and acquisitions, and almost NEVER self-initiated) always consisted of transitional periods where BOTH brands were present, with the prominence between brands gradually switching, or at least in two bigger stages, in tune with their obviously binary ordering. In Twitter's case, it could've been “Twitter > Twitter/X > X/Twitter > X”, accompanied also by a transition in palettes and messaging, by widespread media campaigns, etc.
Musk did it this way, extremely and insanely abruptly, instead because a) he's an idiot, doesn't know any better and no one could really save him from himself because, well, he's the owner, b) he and his company are broke, or c) a combination of both. Duh.
This reeks of Stockton Rush's statement regarding breaking rules and being remembered for that, and it could very well turn into the Titan sub of rebrandings. Elon has no more control over basic human psychology than Stockton had over basic physics, and we'll soon see the very predictable results of his hubris.
Everyone will Know X was Twitter , most know already in less than 24hrs, X.com is already redirecting there
I think the deliveries number was more or less to be expected given Tesla's significant price cuts, discounts and incentives plus the fact that many of their cars in the U.S. again qualified for $7,500 federal tax credits
Tesla price reductions and discounts combined with potential federal, state and local EV tax credits had brought the price of a new Model 3 down to as little as $25,000 or less in some places. Without the major price cuts and government credits, Tesla would not have seen the kind of delivery numbers they did.
this 'logic' always amuses me. We call people out for not having thick skin but not those perpetuating hate lol.
Anyway, back on topic, musk is crazy lol. We all knew that. I am curious to see how all this plays out lol. What benefit does anyone have to use X or whatever for payment options, for example. Even FB pay is not something commonly seen or used in day to day life.
… and he'll end up unaliving it even quicker in the process. He's the sorcerer's apprentice incarnate and has finally finished his taxpayer-funded “level of incompetence any% speedrun” (as per the Peter Principle).
I'm not sure how my gf (or my ex's for that matter) are going to take this at first....
Are we ignoring that multiple sources at Space X and Tesla have stated that there are people (execs) there that essentially keep him from doing dumb things to those companies? Like that's part of their job.
What we are seeing now with X/Twitter is Elon without guard rails.
And boy, is it not pretty.
If you follow Elon much then you know these kinds of statements have been applied to both SpaceX and Tesla at varying points…. He has always turned them around, The first year was the year of cutting, this 2nd year will be transformation
He didn't create Tesla or SpaceX, either. About the only company he created from scratch was the OG “X”, which then became PayPal. Credit (lol) where credit's due: that was an ingenious idea, but Musk is clearly this one-trick pony that has been living on borrowed time and fooling everyone around him into thinking he was some sort of business savant, by buying up fledgling companies and managing to hire decent VPs and executives and not running them straight into the ground by giving said hires way more authority and leeway than his constant media appearances led us to believe.
He thought he could do the same with Twitter much later in the game and mostly on his own, despot-style, because… I don't know, manbaby temper tantrum, anyone? In any case, hubris got the best of him and the mask has fallen. In the meantime, we all had plenty of opportunities to learn about Gwynne Shotwell's and NASA's subsidies' crucial role in SpaceX's continued “success”, and see just how crappy his cars actually are when compared with properly made EVs from mainstream automakers (again, credit where credit's due: I distinctly recall Musk saying something a few years ago to the effect of having invested in Tesla just to get other automakers to take EVs seriously and transition entirely onto them, and that it being a successful company was just a bit of a bonus… Oddly prescient – or maybe self-fullfiling – admission of incompetence, much like his comments regarding a potential Twitter bankruptcy post-acquisition) and how many empty or otherwise failed or delayed promises he could spew.
Here we are, poor imposter syndrome-stricken ADHDers, other nondescript NDs or just plain old NTs living under a crushing capitalist system, highly competent people but constantly doubting ourselves and our abilities because our existence in the grand scheme of things may not indeed amount to much, while this naked imperial buffoon pettily burns billions of dollars (with a B) and is constantly called a “genius” by an army of cryptosimps. This circus ends now, I'm afraid; influential or not, we're not taking that bs lightly or silently anymore.
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Your sounding kind of unhinged there 😂 I’d say Elon is a pretty successful guy… odds are X will be very successful too, i’ll Support it!