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vfx said:Tony wrote:
"One might think of the Tesla Roadster as the Apple II of electric cars."
interesting analogy.
So Electric cars with only gain 7 percent of the market.
I really dont think the Apple II is a good analogy then. If the Tesla were a 4door sedan priced around 30K I'd say it's the apple II but the roadster isn't a vehicle the average person can buy and doesn't fit the needs of the average person. The Roadster is a mixture of a design study, weekend toy, and publicity stunt. I want one for it's unque perfomance and novel ideas, not becuase it would be terribly practical in the IL winters I'm used to or on the longer road trips I frequently take. I have my MINI for those situations. A Tesla fits 3/4s of my needs for 3/4s of the year and I'm single with no children or pets, far more "free" in selecting my vehicles than the average consumer. The roadster is an elite vehicle that will only be owned and appreciated by a select few. What they come out with next will hopefully be the car that's "polished enough and...usable by ordinary people".tonybelding said:vfx said:Tony wrote:
"One might think of the Tesla Roadster as the Apple II of electric cars."
interesting analogy.
So Electric cars with only gain 7 percent of the market.
What do you mean by that? I think you completely misunderstood me.
I mean, the Tesla Roadster is like the Apple II because the Apple II was the first really successful microcomuter for ordinary people -- and now they're everwhere. There were earlier computers like the MITS Altair, but the technology wasn't quite ready yet, and they weren't polished enough and made usable by ordinary people. There were also companies that came along later with great products, like Commodore Amiga (or NeXT or Be), but failed because other companies (Apple and IBM) had already locked up the marketplace.
vfx said:The analogy is partially valid but I would submit that back then no one had a personal computer. They had to sell the entire concept of owning/needing a product that they never owned before.