Typically ICE cars will offer variants of the "same" motor with different cams or pistons or even cylinder heads for the higher hp models alongside that better tune though.
> It's your phone that you bought from Apple with full knowledge of the restrictions beforehand. If you wanted a phone with more freedom you could have bought another device and voted with your wallet, but you didn't.
This is an unfair argument. No consumer can be expected to do hours of research on every purchase they make and understand the implications of everything. Manufacturers can say almost anything they want as "marketing" and can/do change the terms at anytime they wish.
> Software limitations are not exclusive to Apple. They're everywhere. For instance, manufacturers intentionally kneecap CPUs/GPUs so they can sell the same chips from the same wafer at different price points. Why aren't they targeted too? You bought the whole chip but you don't get to use it.
Yes and motherboard manufacturers have also offered BIOS options to bypass those kneecaps. I remember having fun unlocking the fourth core on my AMD Athlon II x3 455 and getting the "whole chip".
It's not quite the same scenario though. Some of those CPUs/GPUs have hardware issues such as an unstable core and the company is making the best of it by selling them as lesser models instead of trashing them.
> No consumer can be expected to do hours of research on every purchase they make and understand the implications of everything.
And yet you expect them to do that research for EVERY APP someone on the phone tells them to install?! That is how scammers walked my grandma through installing a fake banking app on her android phone, and stole all her money. Luckily iOS stops that!
Sorry to hear about your Grandmother but just because someone has an Iphone doesn't mean the scammers will give up. They'll just pick another attack vector.
> And yet you expect them to do that research for EVERY APP someone on the phone tells them to install?!
No, we're expecting people who don't want to do that research to only install from an official, vetted source, like the Apple App Store.
> That is how scammers walked my grandma through installing a fake banking app on her android phone, and stole all her money.
That genuinely sucks, but I don't think keeping people from fully owning their devices is the answer to that problem.
Put another way, if this is your position, then you should also support the idea of Apple also locking down macOS so it will only run apps installed through the Mac App Store. And Microsoft should do something similar with Windows. But I sincerely hope you wouldn't support that... that's just absurd.
The funny thing is that directing people to malicious websites is generally a lot easier than getting them to sideload a malicious app. If Android were to suddenly start disallowing sideloading, I'm sure the people who tricked your grandmother would have based their scam on a malicious website instead. If she trusted some rando on the phone to download and install a malicious app, I'm sure she would have been tricked by that same rando directing her to a malicious website.
But I guess we can just ban web browsers too, right?
Semi-agree. I've had 2 mx525s fail within ~6 months of purchase but I've also had a mx anywhere 2s that I bought used and got 3 years of usage out of it before I had to replace the switches.
Three years is below what should be considered acceptable, let alone impressive. I got a bit over ten years of really heavy use out of a dirt-cheap Genius mouse ($3-4) before it had to be replaced, and not because of the switches but because of the physical wear of the case.
I know every dealer is different but I've worked at several and never heard of gps trackers for inventory purposes. Dealers don't usually kept track of where the cars are very well.
On the flip side smaller questionable used car dealers have definitely installed trackers to help with repoing a car in the event the buyer stops paying, or even worse lock down the car so it won't start.
Why can't it be both? You can work hard and the business can still flop due to things outside of your control.
I started a business a year before Covid hit. I worked hard and did multiple weeks of working 6 - 7 days. Then Covid popped up and my customer base slowly dried up due to people struggling to make ends meet. Working hard wouldn't have prevent Covid.
The two most important factors that determine whether a business will succeed are good decision-making and capital.
For example, if you'd had enough cash to finance three years of operating at a loss, your business probably could have survived Covid.
That's how many businesses survived Covid: they had a lot of cash in the bank, and they made the good decision of cutting costs to the bone until demand returned.
There are a hundred little decisions that need to be made wisely, and the businesses that fail are usually the ones that made the wrong choices. Anything that affects margins or your competitive advantage is a huge deal. Smart accounting is the backbone of any business that's built to last.
What type of business to start, of course, is one of those key decisions.
Hard work is remarkably ineffective at moving the needle once you scale up a bit. That doesn't mean you don't have to work hard, you still do, actually when you have something good going on, you tend to realize that you'd be an idiot to screw it up through laziness.
But you only have to hit about a dozen employees to be at the threshold where your personal time makes little difference beyond maybe a few key accounts or something. What will make the difference in the long run is the systems you put in place, which of course comes down to some very nuanced decision-making.
Luck, well of course it helps, until it doesn't, no one's lucky forever.
So I maintain that the name of the game is making consistently good decisions and having access to enough cash to weather any storm.
One of the products I built was profitable because I sent a tweet to some guy, he answered, gave me the contact to some other guy that was in charge of purchases and he told me send me a proposal, which he later accepted.
I would call that 99% luck, because I had done that before in multiple occasions but no one answered.
Hard Work +
Market Analysis +
(Massive Luck OR Large upfront funding OR Large and relevant network of personal connections) +
Luck IRT externalities that can impact your business
I wasted my 20's because I didn't understand the formula above. I worked for a small startup and I thought the idea was great. I worked 80 hours a week and churned out massive improvements to the product as they pivoted over and over trying to find a foothold in the market. But now I realize that the failure was because of both a lack of market analysis and a failure in that third term: we had neither luck nor upfront funding nor a network of REAL connections that could make things happen for us. It was a recipe for disaster: for wasted effort and a wasted era of my life before I woke up and realized how unlikely it was that we would turn the ship around.
The unfortunate part is that the third factor - the Luck or funding or connections factor - is mostly only influenceable by how successful you already were before you started the venture. It is the "success begets more success" factor that is unpopular to talk about among people who want to believe that their success came exclusively from the sweat of their brow.
Yea, it certainly isn't all one or the other, but people are on average quite bad at estimating the precise degree to which we have control over uncertain outcomes, and tend to wildly over or under estimate based on emotions, biases and superstitions.
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