Comments by "ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn" (@ke6gwf) on "Undecided with Matt Ferrell" channel.

  1. The problem I have always had with Apple is that they try to control what you can do with their computer or phone. Limited app and software availability, locked down user experience, etc. They want to be in charge of the user experience for the customer. The equivalent would be if Tesla wouldn't let you go on certain roads, or vetted your passengers before opening the door. Lol So Tesla creates a holistic user experience, but it's just the foundation. You then are allowed to customize and use it how you want, with no danger of it being disabled or limited (unless you are messing with the innards, which they are getting better about, but only effects a few people lol). Also, Apple tries to limit your options, keep everything minimalistic, and based on their desires. Elon listens to the users directly and is constantly adding new toys and features and options to it, and while he keeps the basic minimal design, he adds lots of features within that design.
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  2.  @richardblais5232  always happy to help! Smirk
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  3. By Apple's vertical integration, do you mean them not manufacturing a single part, and having various Chinese and other Asian manufacturers built parts for them to be assembled by Foxconn? Lol Displays by Samsung and LG, processors by Samsung and TSMC, OK, I guess the glass is made in the US, and possibly some of the radio chips, but most of it is manufactured overseas, and none by Apple. Yes, they design their own chips sometimes, and then have someone else make it. So not sure what you mean by their vertical integration..
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  4. Well, since none of the other companies have really come out with a compelling system (car plus charging and service), I am not worried about Tesla keeping them from thriving. If these mediocre designs did well, then no one would have motivation to invest in better designs. So let the compliance attempts go bust, let the companies that choose to invest the minimum in it go bankrupt, so that the consumers end up with good options, instead of just a bunch of junk. And in the mean time, Tesla will continue growing and providing the best cars for everyone, until finally some others invest and go all in on making good electric cars to actually compete with Tesla, and if they are new companies, or the reorganized old companies, it doesn't matter, but they are going to have to learn a new way of doing things, and the consumers will win in the end when they finally start making cars as good or better than Tesla.
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  5. One thing you didn't mention about the mud house was what they add to harden the mud so rain doesn't wash your house away. And assuming it's some sort of cement, what's the benefit over making bricks etc with the same formula and skipping all the complicated robots? They have simple machines that can produce bricks much faster than this machine makes walls, and they can be built locally too. It also seems that doing repairs to the walls down the road or making any modifications would be hard, you can't recreate the texture perfectly, so it's going to look ugly, and getting a repair to be water proof and structurally stable would be difficult. Also, with zero reinforcement, how safe are they in earthquakes, cyclones, etc?
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