Cybertruck with a side of Pie

[PointHope]

Definitely gonna get me some model Pi.
Pretty cool, looks like Apple is in deep doo doo.

 

[Quicksilver]

By the time my CT is built it will be time for a new phone to replace my Iphone.
Maybe Tesla will make it a package deal.

 

[Ogre]

Definitely gonna get me some model Pi.
Pretty cool, looks like Apple is in deep doo doo.

Someone missed the game plan.

Musk likes to solve hard problems which nobody has figured out.

Smartphones are done. They are good. A Tesla phone would be an incremental upgrade to existing ones. They have something like 99% saturation. Any market share will come only at significant expense.

EVs are 4% of the market, they are much better than ICE vehicles and getting better fast. EVs are a much bigger, much greener field and all Tesla needs to do to harvest it is out produce everyone… something they are good at.

On top of that, Musk has SpaceX, again a big green field competing against people who are mostly decades behind. Literal rocket science.

Then we have AI and computer vision… which is where FSD is evolving to.


Smartphones are work. Incremental drudgery. Nowhere near as fun or rewarding as Musk’s other pass times.

 

[FutureBoy]

Definitely gonna get me some model Pi.
Pretty cool, looks like Apple is in deep doo doo.

OMG

Rant ON:

Who on earth is starting this Pi phone crap? I’m not real deep on the phone rumors but there is so much stupid conjecture with absolutely no backing evidence in this video that I have to wonder what the angle is. Slick graphics seem to indicate that someone put some work into the video. And as often as I’ve heard people talking about the Pi phone offline, the idea is getting traction in the populace.

Yet there are so many things in the video that are just not realistic at all given current technology. Nice SciFi ideas sure. Not saying that some of these capabilities wouldn’t be possible someday. But given the current state of development, it would take over a decade to get even partial experimental implementations of the described features.

And to what end? Money? Elon is already making more than anyone else. He doesn’t need that. Mission? Elon has already stated his primary mission as being to save humanity from extinction and make us an interplanetary species. Pi phone doesn’t help with that in any way. Coolness factor? Sure Elon likes cool tech. But he seems to be more about rethinking problems in new ways so that innovative solutions can be found. What problems does a Pi phone address? How does it bring an innovative solution?

There is just no way that the above video has any connection to near term reality. To me, it’s just a fancy presentation of an idea going no where for distracted wishful fantisizers to get lost in. Much like the future tech articles in Popular Science and Popular Mechanics from back in the 1950s.

Rant OFF

 

[Crissa]

Speaking of a real phone, did anyone see the news on the new Oppo phone? Chinese company coming out of left field with a slightly better folding display implementation.

If this pans out, well, I think we'll be seeing a new golden era of Chinese tech being innovation rather than just manufacture.

-Crissa

 

[FutureBoy]

Speaking of a real phone, did anyone see the news on the new Oppo phone? Chinese company coming out of left field with a slightly better folding display implementation.

If this pans out, well, I think we'll be seeing a new golden era of Chinese tech being innovation rather than just manufacture.

-Crissa

Can someone make me an origami phone? Small enough to put in a pocket but can unfold to be at least the size of a large tablet. My eyes are getting weaker and it would be nice to have something I could actually read.

 

[PointHope]

OMG

Word Salad ON:

Who on earth is starting this Pi phone crap? I’m not real deep on the phone rumors but there is so much stupid conjecture with absolutely no backing evidence in this video that I have to wonder what the angle is. Slick graphics seem to indicate that someone put some work into the video. And as often as I’ve heard people talking about the Pi phone offline, the idea is getting traction in the populace.

Yet there are so many things in the video that are just not realistic at all given current technology. Nice SciFi ideas sure. Not saying that some of these capabilities wouldn’t be possible someday. But given the current state of development, it would take over a decade to get even partial experimental implementations of the described features.

And to what end? Money? Elon is already making more than anyone else. He doesn’t need that. Mission? Elon has already stated his primary mission as being to save humanity from extinction and make us an interplanetary species. Pi phone doesn’t help with that in any way. Coolness factor? Sure Elon likes cool tech. But he seems to be more about rethinking problems in new ways so that innovative solutions can be found. What problems does a Pi phone address? How does it bring an innovative solution?

There is just no way that the above video has any connection to near term reality. To me, it’s just a fancy presentation of an idea going no where for distracted wishful fantisizers to get lost in. Much like the future tech articles in Popular Science and Popular Mechanics from back in the 1950s.

Word Salad OFF

Pretty funny!
In the future if you are actually trying to say something; use 50% fewer words to be remotely comprehensible.
My point is; a Tesla piece of pie might be a nifty side dish to control Cybertruck evacuations.

 

[PointHope]

Someone missed the game plan.

Seems to me the game plan is to produce a reasonably priced durable product with high levels of utility.

How is a Tesla phone outside this parameter?

Meanwhile current Samsung and iPhone products are based on a 6-12 month replacement plan, which serves the manufacturer, not the end user.

 

[HaulingAss]

Seems to me the game plan is to produce a reasonably priced durable product with high levels of utility.

How is a Tesla phone outside this parameter?

Meanwhile current Samsung and iPhone products are based on a 6-12 month replacement plan, which serves the manufacturer, not the end user.

No, there is no evidence Tesa is developing a phone. that's just dumb.

8 minutes of my life I will never get back.

 

[John K]

Everyone know Tesla is not developing a phone… they are developing a pager.

 

[PointHope]

No, there is no evidence Tesa is developing a phone. that's just dumb.

8 minutes of my life I will never get back.

Have you actually researched it?
This news doesn't seem to be a hoax.

In fact the Tesla phone seems like a perfect fit as a legacy industry disruptor.

The Tesla EV's are turning legacy automakers planned obsoleteness upside down already.

The game plan is paradigm shift.

The current dominant paradigm is about to be nuked into oblivion.

Soon you won't even be able to give a petrol guzzler F150 away.

 

[braddibbnd]

Maybe they are collaborating with Neuralink? Or maybe they have an interface that won't change how you operate the phone with every upgrade to the OS.
Tesla has more than enough on their plate, so please just get my CT out the door with the 4680s.

 

[HaulingAss]

Have you actually researched it?
This news doesn't seem to be a hoax.

You have a strange definition of "news". There is no news and there is no evidence Tesla will make a phone. Yes, I've researched it and found zero evidence. And you haven't posted a shred of evidence either.


People these days...

 

[CyberCFP]

Have you actually researched it?
This news doesn't seem to be a hoax.

In fact the Tesla phone seems like a perfect fit as a legacy industry disruptor.

The Tesla EV's are turning legacy automakers planned obsoleteness upside down already.

The game plan is paradigm shift.

The current dominant paradigm is about to be nuked into oblivion.

Soon you won't even be able to give a petrol guzzler F150 away.

There is zero reputable news on a Tesla phone. Zero.

 

[Ogre]

Meanwhile current Samsung and iPhone products are based on a 6-12 month replacement plan, which serves the manufacturer, not the end user.

My last 3 iPhones have lasted 3-5 years, usually I pass them on to family members. My last one is fine, sitting on my nightstand waiting to be boxed up for my daughter after 3 years. I would keep it but I wanted better camera technology. It’s been that way with the iPhone for some years now.

Not panning any other company here, I started using Apple 10 years ago when Android makers were struggling to keep phones on the current rev and haven’t felt the need to switch.



Not sure what you do to phones which makes them last 6-12 months… but that is not normal.