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> > That doesn't diminish what Apple did, but this idea that what they did was something revolutionary that wouldn't have happened in some variant without them
by JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
> > That doesn't diminish what Apple did, but this idea that what they did was something revolutionary that wouldn't have happened in some variant without them is bizarre.
My bad, Tesla is revolutionary instead, 150 year old automotive industry, 5000 year old history of the wheel.
Literally reinventing the wheel for political purpose. A true revolution in the history of virtue signaling and subsidies milking /s
- vidarh 3y agoYou're the one obsessing over an imaginary need for them to be revolutionary to add value, while having given examples of companies that largely have had successes without doing anything revolutionary other than in sales and marketing, like you've criticized Musk for.
- JumpinJack_Cash 3y agoLook , at the global level I have been a 1%er my whole life. Then I became a 1% at the country level. My first Pc was a Dell with pirated XP My first smartphone was an iPhone My first social media was Facebook My first online purchase delivered at home was Amazon. My first car was my dad 2000 BMW. After all the talk I have stepped and driven a Tesla, it’s the same experience of back in the BMW, and the same experience my dad had the first time he drove a car back in the 70s. The hype is not warrented by the underlying product whereas the other stuff I mentioned produced a big leap in the quality of life of the majority of the population, even though they were not the first of their kind and you fancy 0.1%ers had access to the very early iterations in the form of products made by companies that have now ceased to exist.