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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• sparky@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not sure that really says much. I hate swasticars as much as y’all do, but like, $400 phone versus $100K car. Makes sense the fire phone sold better. And I mean, it wasn’t being pushed by a literal Nazi so that helps.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The phone was $650 at launch, carrier-locked to AT&T, and was pushed by Jeff Bezos.

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• daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I forgot the Fire Phone was a thing.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I will never forget, and I will hold onto my Fire Phones (yes, plural) until the day I die.

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    • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Holy fuck they still work? Can you run any modern apps on them? Does the 3D give you a headache?

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Update: Still Alive

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Updates stopped at a special KitKat-based FireOS version, so most modern apps are likely broken. Dynamic Perspective never gave me a headache - it’s actually pretty well implemented - but it does get boring after ten to fifteen minutes.

        I think I’ll charge one up and see how it’s doing!

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• clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  46k trucks sold so far. For comparison, rivian sells about that many of their trucks every year.

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  • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To be fair, Rivian is selling as many trucks as they can produce. Rivian could sell more vehicles if they had the line capacity.

    Tesla is an older company with more mature manufacturing lines, and they can make more Trucks, but no one wants them.

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  • salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I still can’t believe that 46k people are both that stupid and have 100k to spend.

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    • SeeFerns@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Go to Boulder CO and you’ll see plenty of rich morons with that kinda cash. I saw multiple swastitrucks a day over there

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      the vast majority of them i see around my area have branding decals plastered all over them. no doubt they are being used as a business expense or some other dumb shit.

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      • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There are huge tax breaks for…

        Buying a car for your business. Buying a car that has a 6ft bed for your business Buying a car with 6000+ lb curb weight for your business. Buying an electric car for your business. Buying a car that is wrapped or decorated to promote your business.

        When you put them all together, the CT is basically 100% tax write off.

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      • exu@feditown.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A van would be so much better for advertising. Much more space to put a logo and text plus it’s higher up and therefor more easily visible.

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    • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you’re dumb, and you can get $15-17k from selling an existing vehicle, you can get a 3 year lease down to delta of $500-$600.

      Telsa was pushing leases pretty hard because a lot of EV incentives are lease-only. I’ll bet they duped a lot of people into putting a shitload down for a lease.

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    • rezifon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      . . . and have 100k to spend.

      You can get an 84 month auto loan these days if you’re dumb enough to do it.

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      • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s still over $1000 a month to buy a fucking car

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m curious, does Tesla have its own financing division that gives out these loans?

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