Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range

gradual@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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• Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  selling half-assed tech, basically A scam, which is whole business model.

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• Azal@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So he learned from the video gaming industry?

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  • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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”.

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• Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pray I don’t alter it further.

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• LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is it just me, or is musk profiting off of selling people tech before it’s actually ready?

  Today’s vocab word is Vaporware

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• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s exactly what he’s been doing with all his businesses. And it works. Tesla is still hugely overvalued as a company.

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