• @[email protected]
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    1872 months ago

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

    • Clay_pidgin
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      932 months ago

      46k trucks sold so far. For comparison, rivian sells about that many of their trucks every year.

        • @[email protected]
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          442 months ago

          . . . and have 100k to spend.

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

        • Jesus
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          252 months 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          142 months 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.

          • exu
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            72 months ago

            A van would be so much better for advertising. Much more space to put a logo and text plus it’s higher up and therefor more easily visible.

            • @[email protected]
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              92 months ago

              You could put a blinking neon light ad all over the entire night sky, but if someone farted, you would still look around and ask “who farted?”.

              The Tesla is so stupid ugly that it attracts attention the same way.

              • @[email protected]
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                52 months ago

                I saw a local restaurant with its branding on it the the other day. Well, there’s one restaurant I never need to try.

          • @[email protected]
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            There are huge tax breaks for…

            Buying a car for your business.

            Buying a car that has a 6ft bed for your business

            Buying a car with 6000+ lb curb weight for your business.

            Buying an electric car for your business.

            Buying a car that is wrapped or decorated to promote your business.

            When you put them all together, the CT is basically 100% tax write off.

        • @[email protected]
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          72 months ago

          Go to Boulder CO and you’ll see plenty of rich morons with that kinda cash. I saw multiple swastitrucks a day over there

      • Jesus
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        452 months 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        242 months ago

        I will never forget, and I will hold onto my Fire Phones (yes, plural) until the day I die.

        • @[email protected]
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          162 months ago

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

              • @[email protected]
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                32 months 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.

            • @[email protected]
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              02 months ago

              Daaang, I forgot about the 4 (!!!) front cameras. Super creepy. Like, one is already bad and accepted but four…

              • @[email protected]
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                41 month ago

                The four cameras on the corner were lo-rez IR cameras used exclusively for head tracking for the Dynamic Perspective feature.

          • @[email protected]
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            192 months 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!

                  • @[email protected]
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                    The entire UI.

                    The corner cameras (of which only 2 would be in use at any given time) were IR cameras used for head tracking to determine the user’s position and gaze in order to render the 3D interface effect.

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      62 months ago

      I’m not sure that really says much. I hate swasticars as much as y’all do, but like, $400 phone versus $100K car. Makes sense the fire phone sold better. And I mean, it wasn’t being pushed by a literal Nazi so that helps.