Remember how the Apple Macintosh was going to get crushed because lots of other people would be able to make PCs? Remember how HTC was going to get crushed because lots of other people would make Android phones?
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They did get crushed and Bill Gates saved them.
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Hasn’t this already started? Why is the Model 3 still crushing the Bolt in sales? I hear Benedict’s argument, but I think he underestimates the strength of the vertical integration in building a better product. He thinks this is Apple 1980 and I think it’s Apple 2008.
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Or maybe 2006, but you get the point
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I get your metaphor, but it is ill recieved considering apple products are not really good products with little memory and ill capability of gameplay purposes, apple did well because they marketed well. I hardly call copying Elementary OS UNIX "innovation "
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The sales would disagree with you. There’s so much more to a product than raw specs
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Again, i stand by my statement : i never claimed they did not do well, I claimed they did well because they created a culture around apple. Marketing.
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I disagree. The experience of using an Apple product is (or at least was) fundamentally better
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I agree, user interface has always been cleaner since then, until windows 10 rolled out and android started focusing on their design aspect. You got me there.
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A pisteriori prophets . All of you.
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The one thing that I think is completely underplayed is how
@Tesla changes the way you buy a car. Everyone hates the outdated dealer model which is a legacy issue for traditional auto makers who are trying to compete with Tesla. -
Saturn did the same and they are no longer. Dealers make money from servicing vehicles, not sales.
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Saturn was owned by GM. Tesla is not.
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indeed, but the sale was not from "dealerships". so the similarity of signing docs and driveway remains
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Have you listened to this
@a16z podcast? https://a16z.com/2018/09/17/hallway-conversation-tesla-disruption/ … Excellent breakdown of the Tesla advantages (and disadvantages) -
Such interesting analysis rarely reflects how markets pan out. Tech markets are inherently unpredictable, analysing trajectories always runs risk of missing new advances that make such analysis obselete. People analyzed how FB can't beat MySpace or lyft can't survive uber
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Sure. But it's still a useful exercise and interesting to listen to.
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and that's why I said interesting analysis. The exercise itself is most useful in further thinking about the issue. The danger is getting overconfident that the analysis will surely come to pass (the speakers in the podcast did NOT display this). -
Totally agree
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