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"So how can Tesla persuade car giants to all work together to improve the world’s electric vehicle infrastructure? By licensing its tech to its competitors, in
by robot 13y ago
"So how can Tesla persuade car giants to all work together to improve the world’s electric vehicle infrastructure? By licensing its tech to its competitors, in the same way that Google gives Android away to every phone-maker in the world."
Wrong comparison. Google gives away android only to increase its ad spaces and make more money. I don't think licensing technology enables such a platform for Tesla.
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- cromwellian 13y agoGoogle gives away Android as a competitive moat to both a) increase the amount of time spent on Google Services and b) decrease the threat of a mobile monopoly changing the default search engine (Imagine the threat of an Apple with 80% of the market and the negotiating power they'd have for the setting of default mobile search) A fragmented, federated mobile ecosystem with more players results in more people using Google services even if competitors can take Android and strip out the Google-installed services (e.g. Amazon). For Tesla, making electric cars in general a success will increase demand for electric infrastructure investment, and in turn, a robust electric infrastructure, along with cultural normality of electric cars, means increased demand for their own products. Android really hasn't increased ad space all that much. If people use mobile more than desktop, the likely result is mobile is leading to decreased ad spaces, just from the mere fact that the screens are smaller. So if anything, it is a defense against a downward sloping trend.
- venomsnake 13y agoTesla want small slice of huge pie and not huge part of non existent one.