Gosh, Microsoft will optimize just like they did for the ARM Surface!

Oh, wait....

Windows: Now trailing edge technology.

Sorry. Forgot for a moment.

To be fair, you're one of the better shills - your lies tend to be subtle you use quite a bit of the truth to assemble them.

But you're getting desperate - and that leads to stupidity:

Nice strawman - but affordable to who?? No new car is affordable to those without money.

What are you smoking?? Luxury cars are their car market - and if Elon chooses to enter it (by offering better interior build quality), he'll do so (he clearly hasn't needed to so far).

The fundamentals of a Tesla (chassis, powertrain, suspension) are every bit as impressive as that of an Benz or an Audi; again, it's only their interiors that are economy-class - and we know from the likes of Jaguar that luxury interiors are hardly rocket science.

You're projecting meaningless bullshit; prestige follow capability - produce a bad-ass car and the market will view it accordingly.

When Tesla needs to spend dollars on marketing, they will.

More tinfoil, clearly.

Moronic. There are to many reasons to list why doctors should not be able to give a patient anything they ask for, but I'll start with the most fucking obvious: if that was how things should be, why have prescriptions at all? It's fascinating watching the contempt for specialized competence eat the United States from within.

Hyping, pimping, influencers, shills, PACs, it's all designed for profit. Sadly, it works. Unless you're playing that game, you're an outsider. This is the value of social media, boosting ticket sales, mushrooming events--> FOMO.

The rest of us just glide along, watching the piles of money burn, the booze sold, the hotel rooms, the cities vying for sports and entertainment events, the gambling revenues, the Lambos, People buy into that shit. It's an alt.economy, all based on FOMO and greed.

But yeah, you can't buy a house in many cities because the real estate is owned by organized speculators, or hindered because of NIMBY property values. You breed a dichotomy of people living in the street, packed like sardines in their parent's homes, working wage-slave jobs. And so they gamble. They want a piece of the pie. But the distance to the pie ever-increases. So they buy myths and social media propaganda....and the twelve-hour pre-game is just part of that smoke and mirrors, and budget drain.

It's part of a pretty sorry set of values, quiet desperation, not unlike what Emerson implied.

I'm a 25+ years of experience C++ programmer, and Rust is great. Entrenchment will mean C++ will be around in meaningful amounts for awhile, but I have no qualms about Rust increasingly eating its lunch.

It's a very serious insult to their clientele to write the ToS, and still worse to play them for fools when they have to claw it back. Someone needs better crisis management and better still, better legal counsel. Will they do THAT? Somehow, I doubt it.

Seems like an other CEO, baffled that his BS was found out. Lots of that going around....

what a dystopia

Post something Ron DeSantis doesn't like online?

Yeah, nobody has every done that before under their public name. *rolls eyes*

I don't think you fully appreciate the difference between marketing and "being made aware of". You'd hope the billions of dollars companies spend on both improving their ability to influence decision making, and analyzing the performance of their marketing mandates would clue people in to the fact that the vast majority of advertising is not designed to "make you aware" of a product, let a lone a whole class of products as per your analogy.

There's nothing more racist than replacing a meritocracy with race quotas.

Now fuck off and die, Stupid Drooling Shill.

So it came down to a choice between being a nerd or an inner-city gang member. Right...

You're right that they're not good business tools, but Jobs and his teams were ridiculously focused on consumers-- the end purchasers.

I'm not an Apple fanboi, and far from it, but a lot of dogged work produced a clear and early market leader that sustained its leadership-- if by monopolizing its ecosystem.

Much as I'd like to see Apple open up, I believe the DoJ (in this segment) has a very flawed argument. Google isn't a hardware company, for one. Microsoft doesn't know hardware (Balmer totally blew the Nokia acquisition), either, and is still worse at supply chain. Lenovo's purchase of Moto phones remains one of the better alternatives.

Is the barrier to entry really high? Yes. But just like there are new and bothersome competitors to Tesla coming from China, Apple will have to work hard to maintain their throne-- they've been greedy and control freaks to the max to their developer monetizing networks. If nothing else, Jobs taught the market how to do phones, did it, and left competition in the dust. This said, I use an Android phone. It's not inferior to Apple, but my phone vendor could give a flying fuck about me.

Ultimately, apps rule this space and Apple controls its ecosystem with draconian and maniacal care. You'll have to pry their fingers away, one by one, to get control. Citing the stupidity of Microsoft/Nokia, LG, and others is not going to convince a judge.

actually, people being too lazy to take an hour out of their day to recycle their waste is about the same as people being too lazy to take 10 minutes to look into the most basic facts of an issue before they voice an opinion is to blame

people are lazy and problems shared among all people means nobody or anything specific is "at fault"