• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    This has exposed the sales numbers, and impressively, it’s sold even worse than the Fire Phone.

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        13 hours ago

        To be fair, Rivian is selling as many trucks as they can produce. Rivian could sell more vehicles if they had the line capacity.

        Tesla is an older company with more mature manufacturing lines, and they can make more Trucks, but no one wants them.

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          6 hours ago

          the vast majority of them i see around my area have branding decals plastered all over them. no doubt they are being used as a business expense or some other dumb shit.

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          14 hours ago

          . . . and have 100k to spend.

          You can get an 84 month auto loan these days if you’re dumb enough to do it.

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          13 hours ago

          If you’re dumb, and you can get $15-17k from selling an existing vehicle, you can get a 3 year lease down to delta of $500-$600.

          Telsa was pushing leases pretty hard because a lot of EV incentives are lease-only. I’ll bet they duped a lot of people into putting a shitload down for a lease.

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          15 hours ago

          Holy fuck they still work? Can you run any modern apps on them? Does the 3D give you a headache?

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                11 hours ago

                I don’t have any spare SIM cards lying around, but I do recall doing a brief test a couple years ago, and apart from some problems with SMS message formats, things seemed to work fine.

                Unless you’re referring to WiFi, to which the answer is of course, as that’s how the time and date got set correctly. On boot it somehow thought it was an hour earlier and eight days ahead, but still on a Friday; I forgot to check which year, though.

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            14 hours ago

            Updates stopped at a special KitKat-based FireOS version, so most modern apps are likely broken. Dynamic Perspective never gave me a headache - it’s actually pretty well implemented - but it does get boring after ten to fifteen minutes.

            I think I’ll charge one up and see how it’s doing!