Looking at a touchscreen isn’t a big deal, people look down and around their cabin all the time while driving. People here sound like you have to be staring at the road without blinking to drive. In reality people are always looking around the cabin while driving for all sorts of reasons.
I love driving a Tesla with no buttons. I hate buttons. The two multipurpose buttons on the steering wheel are enough for me. I don’t even like having a HUD. Just useless information in front of my face. Just give me a big touch screen and I’m happy.
Absolutely. My theory is that most of the people hating on touchscreens in this thread are using horrible solutions provided by manufactures other than Tesla.
It's similar to when everyone claimed that touchscreens on phones wouldn't work. They were right until they weren't. Touchscreens on phones didn't work until Apple fixed that. Tesla has done a proper job on car touchscreen UX, but everyone else is putting out garbage.
Sure, phones are a marvel ans show what you can do with touchscreen apps but that is nothing like driving. I also can't play games on a phone well without a controller (or keyboard and mouse for FPS) for the same reason (computer aim/walking assistance is cheating, why bother?!). I use an external mechanical keyboard even when on the road (Keychron K7) because I don't find even the M1 Macbook Pro's keyboard good enough for real work.
So yeah, the touchscreen puts me off getting a Tesla (alongside a bunch of other cars) almost as much as the amount of remote control they have over their cars. No thanks, as much as I love the idea of owning a Tesla.
It’s funny how I’m the opposite. I play FPS games on my phone as good as with a mouse and keyboard. I like low profile laptop keyboards because I can type faster with minimal down distance and force per finger. In the car the touch screen is so much bigger and nicer than any button interface in a legacy car.
Would you use a PC without any of keyboard hotkeys?
I’m not fanatical about this, I would use it if I would be forced by circumstances. But I would not be happy about it.
And I still would try to educate/convince older colleagues that hotkeys make things quicker/easier/“reliabler”.
From your speculation of source of touchscreen hate, I see that you feel that tesla has superior car touchscreen experience. And I don't doubt that. But however good you can be with touchscreen, you can do even better if you also have bunch of physical buttons (in addition to touchscreen/must look then point device).
> Would you use a PC without any of keyboard hotkeys?
That's not a good analogy. The main interface to the car is not the controls/screen, it's the steering wheel and pedals. The controls and screen are interacted with only intermittently. There is more information available allowing for automating most of the controls, and voice control for the rest, meaning the screen is mostly just used for visualization and the occasional action.
I like Robinhood and I have no problem with them having technical issues when users a flash mobbed a meme stock. In the end they learned what to do next time.
They weren’t technical issues; they were financial, business, and policy issues. And many people people either lost or think they lost a lot of money because of it.
Robinhood branded themselves as bringing power to the people but as soon as the people got the upper hand in a market, Robinhood turned around and screwed them. It’s a lot worse than a young startup struggling to keep up with explosive demand.
I guess when you give power to the people that means flash mobbing meme stocks. Not something traditional institutions have had to deal with before. Traditional users as well who don’t see what happened as good behavior. Robinhood handled it as well as could be expected.
Each PHP file is a magic hot swappable component. Not some bulky binary you have to full compile/deploy on every tiny change. What other web technology compares?
What an intelligent and educating response. My comment may come as salty, but if you make an effort to visit the linked gallery, maybe you will have more "fresh perspective":)
If someone wants to pay a lot of money to a professional to create their brand identity that option is always there.
If someone else just needs something simple and passable there is Dalle.
And I’m sure there is every option in between where someone can use Dalle as a starting point and pass it to a pro, or a pro would even use Dalle as a way to brainstorm options.
Dalle is a tool that has empowered everyone. It shouldn’t be seen from a stereotypical luddite perspective as in your first post.
The practical use case is pretty simple - being able to hold large sums of money yourself securely while being able to move it to who/where ever you want in less than an hour, 24/7, no questions asked.
Before Bitcoin it was practically impossible to do this without a bank as an intermediary and even then would require large fees, talking with people, lots of hang ups, just to manage your own money.
Say you want to move $ from service A to C, before Bitcoin it was not possible without a bank intermediary (B). There is processing time, high fees, business hours, etc.. So you’re handholding the process A to B then B to C.
With crypto I can move money directly A to C at 4am on a weekend, any amount, without talking to anyone for a tiny fee.
Or if I want to move it into my wallet and hold it personally I can do that do. Before Bitcoin that was literally impossible without physically walking into a bank.
In my experience (UK traditional banking system) I can move money directly A to C at 4am on a weekend, any amount, without talking to anyone for a NO fee. That's just how online banking works, and I'd have to increase the sums of money involved by an order of magnitude or two before having to walk into a bank. What sorts of values of A, C and $ do you have in mind where a bank isn't cheaper, faster and more convenient than crypto?
This is the “works on my machine” of the banking world. Local transfers in the UK work well but if you try to do the same transfer to a non-UK bank account, you will no longer have those same features. This is because each country implements it’s own banking protocols. In crypto, there is a single protocol that all users agree on, and so you can trade ETH, USDC, and other tokens all in the same way regardless of your physical residence.
First your bank can’t move money from A as it doesn’t control A. A and C and services or even my personal wallet, not banks. The point is a bank is not needed to facilitate the transfer.
Instead of having to move money from wallet to bank to stock exchange, money can move directly from wallet to exchange and vice versa, no bank.
Tesla has significantly increased prices and such an increase lowers the ability of scalpers. I don’t know about Tesla’s policies on warranty transferability and I don’t know if that plays into things. Unlike other cars Tesla can remotely disable a car so maybe the secondary market for Teslas is different. I don’t know.
There are definitely scalpers for other brands. People are special ordering Mavericks from Ford and get them after 6 months or so and then reselling.
Increasing prices has nothing to do with scalping.
Just like Microsoft and Sony should of done with game consoles, but never did - Tesla has centralized buying which allows it to easily prevent scalping.
I don’t think you understand the market forces at play if you really believe this. If product A sells at MSRP direct from the company that produces it for $x and people are willing to pay $y for it where y is sufficiently bigger than x then there will be a reseller market for the product. If y is close enough to x then there won’t be much of a reseller market. Of course if the company has the ability to otherwise diminish the value of the product post sale then that too can distort the reseller market should the company use its power to do so.
Increasing prices has much to do with whether or not there is a reseller market. You are very much wrong.
You should about market dynamics and pricing power and whatnot. When there is an imbalance between MSRP and what buyers are willing to pay there, provided the latter quantity is sufficiently bigger than the former, then an opportunity arises. Someone along the chain will seek out the potential profit. Tesla has massively raised prices. So what if their public statement is that it is because of inflation? The publicly stated reason matters not. What matters is that they raised their prices in accordance to market forces.
There is a large reseller market for PlayStation 5 because the price Sony sells at is much less than what the market is willing to pay. So scalpers step in seeking the potential profit. There are a number of reasons Sony doesn’t raise MSRP. The main one being goodwill and future buyers. If they raise their prices to $1,0000 the psychological effect will be long term detrimental. So they don’t raise prices. But there is a market for scalpers because of this.
I’ve posted links demonstrating there is a scalper market for some new cars. Indeed, dealerships are often times, in effect, becoming scalpers by raising prices. If all dealerships sold at MSRP this would not benefit consumers in the least. Scalpers would just take over and buying a car from a scalper is a lot worse than buying it, at a premium, from a dealer.
Call it price gouging, scalping, theft or what have you. The words used don’t matter. All that matters is that there is enough potential profit to be had at the imbalance between MSRP and what buyers are willing to pay for cars that someone will be attempting to take that profit. It’s either going to be the manufacturer (Tesla), the dealer, or a third party.
Show me a report, anything that says people are buying lots of Teslas to resell them for a profit.
Oh wait you can’t. What’s your argument, raising prices was a preemptive strike against scalping? That makes sense. Really your point was disproven like 5 posts ago. Inflation across the supply chain is obviously the reason for price increases.
Sorry it’s not all a conspiracy with Tesla lying about their motives. Maybe that’s easier to believe than accepting that you could be wrong.
Microsoft and Sony both sell direct and both implement anti scalping technology into their direct sales. (only allowing one purchase per registered account, IP detecting technology to make sure same user isnt buying over and over, et cetra). Sony got me a PS5 launch day direct ship to home at no additional cost within 12 hours after purchase (I was pretty impressed that Sony was able to pull that off)
They just dont want to burn their bridges with traditional retailers quite yet Im guessing.
