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  • They are going to have the same problem they had with their original phones. No apps. They could never get enough developers to care about the OS without a user base. You also can’t get a user base without apps. That’s what killed the windows phone.
    Amazon tried to use the kindle formula on a cell phone. The problem is that the main reason the kindle was successful was there was no real competition. They also only need to provide books not apps for the kindle. The cellphone market was a lot more mature with a ton of options. They came in with a mediocre phone that had less apps and less configurability. They tried to do the Apple walled garden on an Android phone. Clearly they didn’t understand their market.










  • Phones have to easily repairable before you can blame consumers for upgrading. Cell phones are pretty essential for modern life and most of us don’t want to be without them for long. The upgrade allows for people to not have to worry about what to do when something out of warranty breaks. It is like fixing your car. In warranty, the manufacturer or dealer takes care of things. Out of warranty, you have to find a repair shop. Finding a repair shop is difficult. Trying to get a second or third quote on a broken car is difficult and costly.

    The alternative is to make repair shops have transparent prices and make it easy for them to get oem parts. The other option is to force companies to warranty their phones for longer. Until the government does one of those you can’t blame consumers.


  • I think social platforms should be allowed to regulate who they allow on their platforms. It is similar to not allowing a naked person to eat at a restaurant. As long as it isn’t a protected group that they are dismissing, it should be allowed.
    I do think sex work should be legalized but I don’t think businesses should have to cater to that industry. Currently, you can choose to not let smoking products advertise on your website. I also think it is difficult to argue that social media is essential infrastructure. A person can easily live in our current society without it.


  • I can’t find any reviews of the chip itself, just announcements. It is too early to say they succeeded. Also intel did make a 5G modem for phones. It just was a couple of years behind Qualcomm’s chip. There is a good chance that Huawei’s 5G chip will be the same. If you look at the phone they are going to sell with the new 5G chip, it has a main processor that is performing at the standards of two years ago. The 5G modem could be the same way. Furthermore, Huawei could be breaking patents and be fine as long as the phone isn’t sold outside of China. The main difference is that Apple doesn’t want to put a worse 5G modem in their products and can’t pretend that patents don’t exist.



  • I think you answered your own question. It wasn’t good. Apple isn’t willing to sacrifice battery life since it has been one of their biggest selling points on the iPhone for years. As far as why they haven’t figured it out yet. It is probably pretty difficult. Intel spent tons of money on it and couldn’t succeed. A chip maker gave up. That should tell you how difficult the process is. The 5G modem industry is basically a monopoly so there are a ton of companies that would be trying if it were easy to do.




  • Yes, but it would require changing the limit for the car. There is no way for the cars to know the limit of the circuit. If one cars is pulling 50A and you plug in the second, it will try to pull the max also. That will trip the breaker. Teslas limits can be set in the software and the Tesla charger itself. They can also be set on a schedule.

    It should be safe to have it attached to your garage. The new Tesla chargers can also be set to only allow your cars to charge. The garage door may not close with the cable there. Most newer doors have a senor to make sure it doesn’t crush you. Any resistance and the door reverses.


  • In theory they could share a breaker circuit. The problem is for them not to constantly trip the breaker you will have to limit the charging by half the total amps. So if you current circuit is 60A you want to keep it around 50A. That would make it 25A per car. This would work but would cut the charging speed of each car in half. How big is dependent on how fast you want to charge each car.

    When I got my charger installed, I was limited by my breaker box. The total amps going to the breaker box is limited by the electrical ordinances in your area. The second box and line would have cost me $6000 more so it wasn’t worth it for me.

    I don’t have experience with outside chargers but I had seen options for weather proof boxes for them. I stayed at a hotel several weeks ago that had the tesla consumer chargers outside without any additional weatherproof around them. I guess it is technically possible. The main problem is going to be the electrical connection. Outside lines require trenching and often additional permits. It is probably feasible just not cheap.