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Old 01-03-24, 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Blaze876
Their new park assist seems to be pretty good vs their first release which was a mess. I think where the confusion lies was when you pointed out similarities with Apple and Tesla. Imo when Apple releases a new feature, "it just works" and works well, usually better than the competition. When Tesla does its half baked and hot garbage (sometimes), until updates fixes it over time....some features are still worse than current vehicles and hopefully updates will get it up to par.
I didn't mean exactly like Apple, I probably should have worded that better. The thing is, Tesla has gotten better with releasing updates, so far getting on average two to sometimes three updates per month since May, my Tesla has only gotten better. Now if you want to see buggy software, you don't have to go any further than my Polestar, which I also love, BTW . Computer on wheels, that's the best way to describe a BEV.

As I stated earlier, I don't agree with everything they do, but at this point I'm all in, no regrets

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Apple did some nice work with their CPU design but mostly they iterate, nothing new from them. What they excel at is keeping people hostage in their ecosystem.

The "Tesla" group of companies is attempting to solve far, far more difficult problems.
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this thread should have the year number removed from the title, or maybe we should start another for 2024.
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We Jim Cramer'd Apple stock by singing their praises.




Meanwhile TSLA continues to go absolutely nowhere.


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Originally Posted by LeX2K
We Jim Cramer'd Apple stock by singing their praises.




Meanwhile TSLA continues to go absolutely nowhere.
I actually sold about a quarter of my Apple shares ....and put it in TSLA at around $209 . I'm waiting for TSLA to hit around $300....then I'm going to sell about half, and wait for it to drop again. With my luck, it will just shoot sky high LoL
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Old 01-04-24, 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by AMIRZA786
I actually sold about a quarter of my Apple shares ....and put it in TSLA at around $209 . I'm waiting for TSLA to hit around $300....then I'm going to sell about half, and wait for it to drop again. With my luck, it will just shoot sky high LoL
You're a genius like me!
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Had a near useless investment finally expire (couldn't get out of it without penalty) interest rate was 0.9%. I guess that was good at one time. Anyway went straight into TSLA @197.97 per.
Disclaimer: I'm not a genius.
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Originally Posted by AMIRZA786
On another note, just got my first referral. My coworker is trading in his 3 series for a Model Y Long Range, and just placed the order today! Not sure how many points I'll get from Tesla, but once he does all financing and paperwork, everything will be good to go! I'll probably get the referral points once he takes delivery
I hope for you that this is wrong, but on the Tesla forums they're claiming there are no referral bonuses at present. They stopped on 1/1.
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Originally Posted by Mike728
I hope for you that this is wrong, but on the Tesla forums they're claiming there are no referral bonuses at present. They stopped on 1/1.
You get 10,000 credits for referrals:



I got 500 credits for his test drive referral:

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Don't know if referrals are valid for me but even if they are not gonna happen. Pretty much everyone I know is anti EV, 99% of the reasons are misinformation.
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Originally Posted by AMIRZA786
You get 10,000 credits for referrals:



I got 500 credits for his test drive referral:

You need merch!

I hope you got some for that.
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Originally Posted by Margate330
You need merch!

I hope you got some for that.
I'll probably use it for supercharging for when I travel. Or I could use it for 5 months FSD
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Originally Posted by AMIRZA786
I'll probably use it for supercharging for when I travel. Or I could use it for 5 months FSD
Get some cyber beer!
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Tesla getting in bed with Samsung.

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Tesla just announced their API for rest of their products, so I am sure now everyone will be integrating this into their own apps.
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Saw on the Tesla website that Model Y is available in stealth gray instead of the midnight gray. But nothing else seems to be changed.
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