You can't buy a rescue Porsche until someone else buys it new.

If you’re earning $130k a year, a watch that lasts a hundred years isn’t actually expensive at $1k. A $20 Casio that needs to be replaced every two years, for whatever reason, is $800 spent on watches. Heck, a smartphone to replace your watch can trivially cost $400 to $500.

Some people have more money than others.

Just stretch the CT6 a little and squint. I was bummed to hear the CT8 was canned.

In my world that often means they are more a fan than not. As in, professional pride plus true enthusiasm is as close to fan dedication as anyone can have.

I see an asshole and question your motive.

They adopted USB, FireWire, Thunderbolt, USB Type C, WiFi, mini DisplayPort, HDMI, and BlueTooth. The only proprietary connectors I can remember them pushing were Lightning and iPod, when no available standard existed they could use.

Considering how the USB power standard and USB Type C connector, both necessities for a smartphone, were modeled on Apple’s 2012 Lightning Connector. Maybe you forgot that until recently just about all the USB chargers phones were using were non standard? The USB standard was only 2.5W until USB3, which pushed it to…

Your nick tells me you take Detroit Iron seriously.

They set up a retail network to sell iPods and Macs. I don’t see that setting up a network of chargers for $5b is any different. If they can sell 1m cars a year for a $20k markup then they are pulling in $20b in profit a year. That means they can keep setting up networks in China, Russia, and Europe. A million cars a…

Of course it is, it's terrible that there is no equivalent to the USB standard yet.

I think the accepted view is that Apple is building a car.

1+1=2

Tesla is living proof that you do not need to team up with an established car manufacturer to become Tesla. Here is a relevant analogy. Tesla is to blackberry as Apple is to Apple.

The money is in selling a million cars a year at $20k markup.

Why should they?

Sure. And if Tesla can build a car, I’m sure Apple of all companies has the resources to do so as well. They certainly have the cash necessary to dominate the charging standard.

Your use of the word ‘many’ is confusing. Some Android phones have larger screens, some have more cores, some have better GPUs, some have better battery life, some have bettery cameras, none have better CPUs, but that translates to a handful (or a few) that have far superior hardware.

That lays out both of our…

Apple has the resources to become the dominant charging standard overnight though. If it costs Tesla a cool million to build 10 supercharging stations, Apple could trivially build 100 a week for only a half billion:

That’s not a sleeper, though. This is a sleeper: