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Apple announced AirPower and then didn’t end up shipping it. In a “functioning economy” should Tim Cook be indicted for misleading investors? Obviously not. Th

by Dig1t 3mo ago

Apple announced AirPower and then didn’t end up shipping it. In a “functioning economy” should Tim Cook be indicted for misleading investors? Obviously not. The only decent argument for the criminal case you are talking about would be if it was an outright lie with no intent whatsoever to deliver on the promise, but there’s obviously a huge effort to deliver on the robotaxi promise. Just ask any of the thousands of employees who work on the Tesla robotaxi and self driving software every day, just visit Austin and observe the ubiquitous cybercabs driving around the city. They obviously haven’t realized the dream yet but it doesn’t mean that they won’t eventually, especially when you can physically see the progress first hand. Your argument seems mostly driven by your disagreement with the founder’s politics instead of any rational argument against their technology.

xocnad 3mo ago
As the comment you are replying to does not, on its face, seem to have a political bia you should be explicit about where/how you identified that bias. Without this you are the one injecting politics not the OP.
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DemocracyFTW2 3mo ago
> disagreement with the founder’s politics Are you talking about the guy who did a double-down Nazi salute to celebrate Trump winning the election?
- rayiner 3mo ago
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  - simonh 3mo ago
    Because being in a building Nazis have been in is just like making an actual Nazi salute. Twice.
    - rayiner 3mo ago
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  - UncleMeat 3mo ago
    I don't recall her agitating for a race war online. Maybe I missed it. If the salutes were one weird thing it'd be one thing. But Musk spends all day online talking about how much better white society is than everything else and how foreigners are destroying society and need to be dealt with extremely harshly.
    - rayiner 3mo ago
      “White” has nothing to do with it, but you can’t understand the argument because your intellectual toolbox has only two ideas in it: blank-slate cultural relativism, and Nazism. If it’s not one it must be the other. Thus, the only way you can explain a country like Bangladesh is to chalk its predicament up to exogenous factors that wouldn’t carry over in migration. And anyone who has a different view must be a Nazi, obviously.
      - UncleMeat 3mo ago
        “These populations are simply worse people undeserving of any respect or kindness. Oh and they happen to have a consistent racial component.” George Wallace said this shit too.
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        rayiner 3mo ago
        If you assume a dichotomy between blank-slate cultural relativism and nazism, then you’re correct that everyone who thinks 100,000 Bangladeshi immigrants is materially different than 100,000 Americans must hold that view solely due to skin-color prejudice. If you take it as axiomatic that America would have turned out materially identically if Bangladeshi settlers had been on the Mayflower rather than British Puritans, then yes, everyone who doesn’t agree with you in immigration is in fact a Nazi.
        UncleMeat 3mo ago
mixdup 3mo ago
AirPower would've been a fraction of a fraction of a single percentage point of Apple's accessory sales Apple is facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit over Siri features it promised, that it would not charge for or make money off of, but didn't deliver
JumpinJack_Cash 3mo ago
> > Apple announced AirPower and then didn’t end up shipping it. In a “functioning economy” should Tim Cook be indicted for misleading investors? Obviously not. Apple doesn't have a history of having to pump the stock to survive. Also it's a pretty ubiquitous company and they delivered a pretty life changing product for all of us. On the other hand Tesla has a history of lying constantly and also life and customer experience is pretty much the same in the sectors of the economy that they attacked , as a matter of fact a 2002 Mercedes (the year in which Tesla was founded) is better in many departments compared to a 2026 Tesla
Danox 3mo ago
No Lidar, no chance…

by Dig1t 3mo ago

xocnad 3mo ago

As the comment you are replying to does not, on its face, seem to have a political bia you should be explicit about where/how you identified that bias. Without this you are the one injecting politics not the OP.

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DemocracyFTW2 3mo ago

> disagreement with the founder’s politics Are you talking about the guy who did a double-down Nazi salute to celebrate Trump winning the election?

rayiner 3mo ago
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- simonh 3mo ago
  Because being in a building Nazis have been in is just like making an actual Nazi salute. Twice.
  - rayiner 3mo ago
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- UncleMeat 3mo ago
  I don't recall her agitating for a race war online. Maybe I missed it. If the salutes were one weird thing it'd be one thing. But Musk spends all day online talking about how much better white society is than everything else and how foreigners are destroying society and need to be dealt with extremely harshly.
  - rayiner 3mo ago
    “White” has nothing to do with it, but you can’t understand the argument because your intellectual toolbox has only two ideas in it: blank-slate cultural relativism, and Nazism. If it’s not one it must be the other. Thus, the only way you can explain a country like Bangladesh is to chalk its predicament up to exogenous factors that wouldn’t carry over in migration. And anyone who has a different view must be a Nazi, obviously.
    - UncleMeat 3mo ago
      “These populations are simply worse people undeserving of any respect or kindness. Oh and they happen to have a consistent racial component.” George Wallace said this shit too.
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      - rayiner 3mo ago
        If you assume a dichotomy between blank-slate cultural relativism and nazism, then you’re correct that everyone who thinks 100,000 Bangladeshi immigrants is materially different than 100,000 Americans must hold that view solely due to skin-color prejudice. If you take it as axiomatic that America would have turned out materially identically if Bangladeshi settlers had been on the Mayflower rather than British Puritans, then yes, everyone who doesn’t agree with you in immigration is in fact a Nazi.
        UncleMeat 3mo ago

mixdup 3mo ago

AirPower would've been a fraction of a fraction of a single percentage point of Apple's accessory sales Apple is facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit over Siri features it promised, that it would not charge for or make money off of, but didn't deliver

JumpinJack_Cash 3mo ago

> > Apple announced AirPower and then didn’t end up shipping it. In a “functioning economy” should Tim Cook be indicted for misleading investors? Obviously not. Apple doesn't have a history of having to pump the stock to survive. Also it's a pretty ubiquitous company and they delivered a pretty life changing product for all of us. On the other hand Tesla has a history of lying constantly and also life and customer experience is pretty much the same in the sectors of the economy that they attacked , as a matter of fact a 2002 Mercedes (the year in which Tesla was founded) is better in many departments compared to a 2026 Tesla

Danox 3mo ago

No Lidar, no chance…