Is it just me, or is musk profiting off of selling people tech before it's actually ready?
Like, we don't have the means right now to achieve what he advertises, so he lies about it and then 'alters the deal' after taking people's money.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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That's exactly what he's been doing with all his businesses. And it works. Tesla is still hugely overvalued as a company.
Oh he’s been called out for that for over a decade now, it just got buried under the mass of starry eyed reporting.
that's been tech as an industry for the last decade. product releases, then all promised features come as a half baked update a year later... if at all. phones, games, cars, etc all use this strategy now unfortunately.
Is it just me, or is musk profiting off of selling people tech before it's actually ready?
Today's vocab word is Vaporware
selling half-assed tech, basically A scam, which is whole business model.
So he learned from the video gaming industry?
Yep.
"Games as a service" are released as a "minimum viable product" to see if it can hook enough suckers to make it profitable enough for the company to finish making.
If there aren't enough saps that take the bait, development ceases and whoever put their faith in the product look like tools.
Pray I don't alter it further.
Only a fool buys something on the promise of future upgrades and potential. Buy stuff on what it is now.
This is a bad look for Tesla for sure, but no one should be going “I wouldn’t have bought it if I knew this would get cancelled”.
It could be $15 and have the range of an ICBM, it can still sit on the lot and scare the kids walking by.
Longer range so it can get stuck further from home? 🤭😀👍
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