This scenario always reminds me of Apple's ~$300B in cash reserves. Let's assume, which likely won't be true however I don't have experience with infrastructure

This scenario always reminds me of Apple's ~$300B in cash reserves. Let's assume, which likely won't be true however I don't have experience with infrastructure scaling, that Apple Watch will take a total of $10B to develop to its "full" version and bring to full scale of expected sales. That leaves a lot of unallocated resources. In certain circumstances it does work to wait for a model to mature enough before copying/making your own version of it, leveraging your audience as a marketing channel, such as Apple did with Apple Music - and it perhaps can work with vehicles as well; it won't take a $300B injection of capital, though Apple will be sitting pretty if they make all of the right moves, I hope along side with Tesla - though Elon's "bad boy" ways are turning him from someone I have considered a great role model, into viewing him as someone who's not done enough emotional work, healing emotional wounds, and could spiral dangerously out of control if he doesn't find non-medication forms of help and practices for self-care, to gain and maintain his health; physical-mental-emotional-spiritual.