To the contrary, this is only viable if you wrench yourself, otherwise it’s a bankruptcy mobile. You have to buy this in full knowledge it is likely to be in pieces on your garage floor at some point.

Since Tesla’s stock price has no meaningful correlation to the company’s performance it is therefore entirely reliant on a continued influx of new investors/investment to keep driving the stock up. This is very similar to Bitcoin’s massive rise a couple of years ago as it gained more mainstream exposure and people…

Wait, so raising $30 Billion of capital and using another $50 Billion in public subsidies... and magically building a couple of car models out of it is “a spectacular achievement”?

You’re thinking about this in way too black-and-white of a fashion. The question is not “Is Tesla a great company?”. I think most people would agree that their success speaks for itself. The question people should be asking is “How much is this great company worth today?” 100 billion dollars? 200 billion dollars? F***i…

Because they probably didn’t fit without a bunch of customizations that would have completely stalled the project, from a budget standpoint. Also, keep in mind that the LA engines were big iron truck motors and—while definitely in the spirit of a classic American hot rod—likely wouldn’t have delivered a practical…

It won’t stop there. They are firing missiles into the Philippine exclusive economic zone. They are claiming land that the US ceded to Philippines. Meanwhile our OWN Hollywood studios kiss their ass for a few dollars. Nixon made a horrible monster. All the worst aspects of Communist and Capitalist in a growing…

Psssst... Digital is physical, too, and susceptible to all of those things.

*sighs* ...And yet again, more reasons why physical will always be king.

So what makes Kotaku think this “report” has enough merit to pass along?

Regarding the legality? The argument by Epic is that this is more about antitrust laws, that Apple has such a large portion of the market and absolute control over everything that happens on their devices that it’s allowed them to use one monopoly (that iOS is the only operating system allowed on iPhones and iPads) to…

I think part of the issue is that it’s Epic that is using it. Epic isn’t some plucky upstart struggling to make money, they are one of the people that 1984 is warning about. At least back when Apple originally made the ad, they could be considered the underdog. This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black and…

It reminds me of that Proud Boy who shoved a dildo up his ass to own the libs. 

But it is crossing a line. It’s literally using the principles laid out in 1984 to get its users to fight against another company in the Brand Loyalty Wars.

There’s more than one type of monopoly. For example: Many cable and ISP companies have regional monopolies. In many areas there’s only one or two companies you can choose from. And they often work together to overcharge their customers at the same rates as each other. This is NOT real competition.

It’s also blindly obvious how they’re trying to manipulate their audience by framing it in the game world. Whether people get it or not, the ‘Evil Apple’ is a bad guy and that’s why you can’t have your game on your phone. It’s pretty gross and honestly worse than what Apple is actually doing.

Except only a small handful of people will remember Apple used the commercial, but a large majority know what 1984 was. It’s stupid on Epic Games part when we have such serious issues going on with our socio-political atmosphere to try to frame their contract-breaking fight-picking as some kind of ideological battle.…

In many people’s view it’s a monopoly because it’s a specific closed market, not an entire sector. For instance if there’s only one cable TV company providing service in a state for example there may be others nationwide but it’s an effective monopoly because there’s no competition. So because Apple enforces a trading…

Many Fortnite players, and maybe even some of the people who birthed Fortnite players, were not alive for Apple’s famous masterstroke of corporate propaganda commercial.

My neighbor has bought into the conspiracy.

I find a well timed eggplant/sweat emoji combo causes ample confusion that they just ignore you.