Comments by "Terje Oseberg" (@terjeoseberg990) on "Kevin O'Leary: If I were short Tesla, I'd be sweating bullets" video.

Why would Apple want to buy or invest in Tesla when they have enough money to build several gigafactories on their own without borrowing any money? If they wanted to make electric cars, they could do it without Tesla or Elon. And there's no reason they couldn't do a good job and build an awesome car either. So could Google or Facebook. I believe the reason they're not is because they're already very profitable doing what they're currently doing. If any of Google, Facebook, or Apple were to invest in Tesla it would be as a favor to Elon. Nobody would complain that it's a bad investment.
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If you have a billion dollars, it's easy. If Apple failed, then the only explanation is that they're stupid. Here's how you build a new car company with $1B. You go to Detroit and hire the best engineers and managers you can. Then you put them to work. A few years later, you'll have a car company. What's difficult is building a car company with $20 million. That's what Elon did. What's nearly impossible is starting a car company from nothing. That is NOT what Elon did.
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MyJizz UrEye, I guess you've never seen a Prius before.
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melo4217, Cars are not the same as some chat app. With an app, you can write one program and an unlimited number of people can start using it. And once they do, there's absolutely no reason to use another one. Each car is an individual choice and has nothing to do with other people's cars. I can buy any car I want and drive it on the same road as you and everyone else who bought completely different cars. With the chat app, if nobody is using the new app, it's pointless to for anyone to start using it, even if the new app is slightly better. The difficulty with apps is gaining traction. With cars, if you make one great car and sell it at a reasonable price, if someone wants it, they'll buy it. You can't compare the two things because they're absolutely different. In other words, everyone uses Snap Chat because everyone is already using Snap Chat. Everyone uses Facebook because everyone is already using Facebook. Google could easily develop a new and improved Facebook and Snap Chat, but nobody is using it, so nobody will use it.
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Yeah, but all these new electric car companies don't have nearly as much money as Apple. With enough money, you can hire people to take care of all the regulatory issues. It would be really easy for Apple to hire 100's of people who have worked in the automotive industry already and are experts. The question is, would that be cheaper or more expensive than buying or investing in Tesla. You do have a point though regarding liability with the self driving car issues. However, they could easily build a great electric car without autopilot. Why does every great electric car have to have autopilot. Tesla doesn't have autopilot either yet. All they have is lane centering and cruise control just like a bunch of other companies. It's really nothing special. The reason they keep crashing is because people believe it's more than it actually is.
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Spencer Teolis, So you're saying it's like how Nvidia has been working on hardware that can perform AI for the past 20 years and suddenly in just a year or two suddenly Tesla has a chip that's 10 times faster and costs the same? BTW, Nvidia has something that's 10 times faster and costs the same too. And it's available today. Tesla's will maybe be available next year. Because if it actually worked, it would be available now.
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