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Bob Lutz, car-guy-to-the-max, former VP of GM and Chrysler, with time at BMW before that, wrote this recent article --
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a26859/bob-lutz-tesla/
The opening paragraph is gloomy:
Tesla's showing all the signs of a company in trouble: bleeding cash, securitized assets, and mounting inventory. It's the trifecta of doom for any automaker, and anyone paying attention probably saw this coming a mile away. Like most big puzzles, the company's woes don't have just one source.
and the prognosis goes downhill from there mentioning competition from Audi, the lack of enough dealers to attract more buyers and other problems.
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You will have a long and boring life.
(Score: 2) by novak on Monday November 02 2015, @01:46AM
It's more of a thing with PCs.
Ah... No. A five year old desktop is still completely functional and overpowered for most applications (not high end gaming, photo editing, HPC, but most stuff). And most of those PCs could easily be upgraded cheaply to do at least some higher end functions.
Apple consistently gets the highest customer satisfaction scores in the industry.
So 99% of the industry is crap. I don't especially mean the hardware industry- but Apple isn't just in the hardware industry, and their hardware doesn't play with any other software. To me, that's already user hostile. On top of that, Apple's software lately has been floundering, to say the least. I've never been impressed by their UIs (unlike many, admittedly) but lately they've been packing in even more eyecandy for zero benefit. That's the definition of "change for change's sake," and what broke some of the old iphones, if I recall. I suppose Apple is less user hostile than google and microsoft, if that's what you're arguing.
novak