Cybertruck with a side of Pie

[Bill906]

 

[CyberGus]

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

That’s not what I heard from my Tesla Fax Machine

 

[Ogre]

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

The smartphone was a legacy industry disrupter.

To disrupt the smartphone Tesla would have to do something more than “More durable” or whatever it is you think is broken about smartphones right now.

Tesla producing “A better smartphone” is not disruptive at all. It is just normal competition.

If Tesla was able to get Starlink to scale down to smartphone size and get ubiquitous connectivity for an industry smashing price. That would be disruptive. But Starlink does not scale to those sizes and there is little evidence it could handle billions of client devices. Nor is it super inexpensive.

A disruptive product needs to be *much better* than the product it replaces. Not just an incremental improvement.

Maybe in 5 years Starlink will get faster, more portable, and more scalable and things can get interesting.

 

[HaulingAss]

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.

In 2018, when my wife and I took delivery of our first Model 3's, I was glad we both had Samsung phones because the 'phone as key' function (PAK) worked flawlessly, every time, once we configured our power saving/sleep settings properly, while iPhone users were all having erratic, unreliable performance that was incurable.

Did Apple ever get their iPhones to function 100% with PAK? I know iPhones have finally adopted Qualcomm radio chips now so I'm thinking it might have been fixed? I'm not sure if the problem was in hardware or software but a year after the Model 3 release iPhone uses were still having a devil of a time so I'm leaning towards the problem being hardware, otherwise Apple would have come out with a software fix. Unless Apple just hates Tesla so much they were enjoying the frustration their users were experiencing trying to use their phones as Tesla keys. But I doubt they would trade a punch to Tesla in exchange for making iPhone user experience worse.

As to the longevity of phones, ones in the last decade tend to last until you break the screen, for us that might be every 2-4 years. We don't get them repaired, we just buy new ones if the screen cracks.

 

[Crissa]

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

That seems not entirely true, being as say Apple still supports five year old phones.

-Crissa

 

[charliemagpie]

Just to speculate :

The Tesla phone will have 100% compatibility with anything Tesla, Starlink and Neuralink.

I see potential to develop and AI assistant that isnt just a nifty app, but rather a true assistant that travels with you for life. Not just simple things like keeping passwords, contacts , monitoring your health but really be a true almost general intelligent assistant.

Neuralink will interface with the phone and the cloud, and this seamless network can run online and offline with incremental backup when online.

The integration into the internet of things and maturity of assistant will be the next thing that will change our life, handy for Mars.

Tesla and Musk could be the combination to bring this. If we can develop an Autonomous car, we can develop Jeeves.

 

[Ogre]

Did Apple ever get their iPhones to function 100% with PAK?

Works well. Not sure about 100%, but 99% for sure. Enough that I’m not sure where my keycard is right now.

 

[Crissa]

Did Apple ever get their iPhones to function 100% with PAK?

Works well. Not sure about 100%, but 99% for sure. Enough that I’m not sure where my keycard is right now.

So much so that all the recent Tesla features went to iPhone first.

-Crissa

 

[Quicksilver]

Maybe Tesla is going to license their name to another company to produce the PI.

 

[HaulingAss]

So much so that all the recent Tesla features went to iPhone first.

-Crissa

Tesla alternates phone app updates between iPhone and Android. Always have. On the latest update, Android was not far behind, but I imagine some impatient people felt like it took forever!

 

[Crissa]

The last few updates involving FSD all had the iPhone getting it weeks before Android.

It's not long, but it's certainly evidence the iPhone isn't languishing.

-Crissa