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If tomorrow, Tesla insisted that their cars will only accepted Tesla branded tires, would you be ok with it? Sure it's their car and they can do whatever they
by bitpush 1y ago
If tomorrow, Tesla insisted that their cars will only accepted Tesla branded tires, would you be ok with it?
Sure it's their car and they can do whatever they want with it, but consumers are losing choices - which is what anti-monopoly rules are for. Say, Michelin or Pirelli tires are strictly better but Tesla doing this harms consumer choice and that's why it is bad.
Imagine if this were extended to Tesla branded chargers. Or Tesla branded paint. It's your damn car so you should be allowed to do whatever you want with it.
- FredPret 1y agoIf this happened tomorrow, you'd have every right to be outraged. But if someone then bought a Tesla the day after, they'd have far less right to be outraged. And if the new tires & paint were integral to fundamental value-add of the car (the analogy breaks down here), then there's just zero grounds for it.
- baggachipz 1y agoThey don't sell parts to shops, so effectively they have a lock on repairs.
- lurking_swe 1y agoA better analogy might be: if tesla mandated tesla-only tires since day one (2012?), and they claimed it’s a perk/feature of the car, AND i bought the car anyway. Did i as a consumer not sign up for that?? There is more than 1 car manufacture after all. None of the ios consumers are hoodwinked and apple offers free returns within 2 week in the US. The locked-down app store has been apples way since (almost) day one. Consumers voted with their wallets to not buy an android phone. I think that’s the difference? IF android didn’t exist it wound be a different story, and it would also be a missing opportunity in the phone market.