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TL;DR: It's about the warez "scene", specifically about music pre-releases. A decent read, but one you may have seen before.

Hell of a headline, but...

To delve into this intriguing topic, the researchers conducted an online survey with 328 initial participants, eventually narrowed down to 44 heterosexual male guitarists who were fans of metal music. The participants ranged in age from 18 to 47 years, with the majority being from the United States and Poland. The majority were single, had a bachelor’s degree, and identified themselves as middle-class – a demographic representation typical of the two most represented countries.

This is really not a study

Why can't they just copy Tesla's model? Or does Amazon operating a storefront on behalf of the manufacturer preclude that?

In at least some states, to sell more than XX cars per year, you must have a dealer license.

A company vehicle is really no different than a personal vehicle, at least not in this context. They own a truck (titled to them), they can sell a truck via private sale. They don't get any sort of dealer perks (such as not being listed in the history as an owner), they are just selling their property.

That does make a compelling campaign slogan. While I assume Musk's statement should not be taken literally, IIRC he made similar statements about Twitter. Shortly after, there were countless reports of how awful it suddenly became to work at Twitter.

~6 months ago, they were completely proprietary. It's being opened up now, but it doesn't change the history. Tesla home chargers would not work on anything else. The cars came with an adapter to allow them to use J1772 chargers. The adapters to use a Tesla level 1/2 charger on a J1772 car are still hard to find, and mostly from sketchy sources.

Tesla was also forced to adopt (or at least become compatible with) CCS2 in Europe. It's not unreasonable to think that it could happen in the US. Releasing NACS puts them ahead of the curve rather than behind.

I was referring to the chargers (home and other). I know there's a rich history, but I also know that it wasn't being released free and clear when CCS was being developed.

I acknowledge that they are now releasing NACS to the public. In other news, Apple is now using using USB-C. These may or may not be related.

You can 100% just look to Tesla to see what will happen. Tesla has been following the Apple model ("but on cars") since the beginning.

• Proprietary connectors? ✔️

• Walled garden of accessories? ✔️

• Blocking independent repairs? ✔️

• Highly integrated experience? ✔️

• Sleek and different, but not necessarily good? ✔️

• Reality Distortion Field? ✔️

It does, but that's because the 12v starter battery was already present. The electric starter predates any electronics. This just made an easy and available source of power for anything else that came later.

There's actually a movement to switch to a higher voltage, such as 48v, but there is a ton of inertia to overcome with that.

I think you missed the point. EVs also have a 12v, for the same basic reason of starting the vehicle. But the bigger factor is that EVs are often plugged in, which will automatically warm the battery.

There's always some value to vultures (and vulture capital) that want to pick over the pieces. It might even still have meaningful value as an ongoing social media platform. But the expected IPO value has dropped heavily in the past few years, and is likely to keep dropping. This really isn't because of anything at Reddit, but of the financial markets in general.

The big question is how will investors feel about the potential for returns, i.e. revenues. I expect to see (well, read about) a whole lot of enshittification over there. Much more data mining, ads, freemium features, etc.

Ostensibly? I think you mean obviously/openly.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo-elon-musk-huffman-rcna89700

It's not just similarities; Steve Huffman is openly and directly copying Musk. Honestly, given Ex-Twitter's performance, I have no idea why any investors are allowing that.