Oh he’s been called out for that for over a decade now, it just got buried under the mass of starry eyed reporting.
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gradual@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Is it just me, or is musk just profiting off of selling people tech before it’s actually ready?
Like, we just don’t have the means right now to achieve what he advertises, so he lies about it and then ‘alters the deal’ after taking people’s money.
mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 2 months ago
LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 2 months ago
that’s been tech as an industry for the last decade. product releases, then all promised features come as a half baked update a year later… if at all. phones, games, cars, etc all use this strategy now unfortunately.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 months ago
selling half-assed tech, basically A scam, which is whole business model.
Azal@pawb.social 2 months ago
So he learned from the video gaming industry?
gradual@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Yep.
“Games as a service” are released as a “minimum viable product” to see if it can hook enough suckers to make it profitable enough for the company to finish making.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 months ago
Only a fool buys something on the promise of future upgrades and potential. Buy stuff on what it is now.
This is a bad look for Tesla for sure, but no one should be going “I wouldn’t have bought it if I knew this would get cancelled”.
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pray I don’t alter it further.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
That’s exactly what he’s been doing with all his businesses. And it works. Tesla is still hugely overvalued as a company.