The thing is, I would have thought that Tesla's stance on repairability alone would have made their brand radioactive to the average Hacker News commenter, way before the Pedo Guy accusations or Elon Musk burning a bunch of money to make Twitter worse. Tesla is everything we claim to hate about Apple.
If Apple owned Tesla, there wouldn't be enough room in this comment to list all the reasons HN would hate it:
1. What do you mean, the OS and all its software is proprietary? Why can't I sideload my own fart app?
2. Highest margins in the industry? No we won't praise their business genius, we'll complain that they're charging a Tesla Fanboi Tax.
3. Like you said, RIGHT TO REPAIR, this is John Deere stuff, only it's a car and not a tractor.
4. Shit build quality would have us raving about butterfly keyboards 2.0.
And so on, and so forth. Steve Jobs had a "reality distortion field." So does Elon Musk, and it's aimed squarely at a certain very obvious demographic.
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The thing is, I would have thought that Tesla's stance on repairability alone would have made their brand radioactive to the average Hacker News commenter, way before the Pedo Guy accusations or Elon Musk burning a bunch of money to make Twitter worse. Tesla is everything we claim to hate about Apple.
If Apple owned Tesla, there wouldn't be enough room in this comment to list all the reasons HN would hate it:
1. What do you mean, the OS and all its software is proprietary? Why can't I sideload my own fart app?
2. Highest margins in the industry? No we won't praise their business genius, we'll complain that they're charging a Tesla Fanboi Tax.
3. Like you said, RIGHT TO REPAIR, this is John Deere stuff, only it's a car and not a tractor.
4. Shit build quality would have us raving about butterfly keyboards 2.0.
And so on, and so forth. Steve Jobs had a "reality distortion field." So does Elon Musk, and it's aimed squarely at a certain very obvious demographic.
From a business perspective, a demographic bigger than the HN readership.