AAPL!!! Good Lord.

[ztirffritz]

Tesla are now building pre-fab factories. They’ve gotten factory production down to months rather than years. There using a tech industry trick to be first to market. Grab as many fistfuls of mindshare as early as you can. In 3 years they’ll be making millions of cars/year. People won’t be able to write them off as a novelty. Should be interesting.

[Carnos Jax]

Yup, they are hard core innovating wherever they can....reminds me of Apple.

[Speedy]

Carnos Jax wrote:
Yup, they are hard core innovating wherever they can....reminds me of Apple.

Yes, and we all know how Apple turned out.

[d4]

GGD wrote:

I firmly believe that Apple carefully considered the date they do anything significant, and the timing of the split is no different, last day of August.

In Sept they'll likely announce new hardware and ship new software. Then the quarter will end at the end of Sept, results will be announced sometime in Oct with the first hint of how the new hardware is selling.

Then they'll have a full quarter of sales with results sometime in Jan, which will include the holiday season.

Every move they make seems to be timed to keep momentum going.

This ain't Apple's first rodeo. Hah. When Steve Jobs handed the reins over to Tim Cook I'm sure this was discussed. Elon Musk on the other hand, needs to take notes rather than spouting off on social media saying, "Tesla stock price is too high imo". :confused:

[GGD]

d4 wrote:
This ain't Apple's first rodeo. Hah. When Steve Jobs handed the reins over to Tim Cook I'm sure this was discussed. Elon Musk on the other hand, needs to take notes rather than spouting off on social media saying, "Tesla stock price is too high imo". :confused:

Yes, Jobs was a master at timing and it continues after him.

Speedy wrote:
[quote=Carnos Jax]
Yup, they are hard core innovating wherever they can....reminds me of Apple.

Yes, and we all know how Apple turned out.
Maybe Elon needs to get kicked out of his own company like Jobs did, and use that time to learn from his mistakes and come back more determined and mature for a second chance. Do we think AAPL would be where it is today if Jobs hadn't left in 1985 and spent time at Next and Pixar?

[pdq]

Waaay back in the day, largely because I was an Apple fan, I had a large number of shares of AAPL in my retirement account. Working out the splits since, it would have been an outrageous number today. But my confidence faltered in the dark days, and I dumped most of them.

If I had just kept those shares, I wouldn’t be writing this post today - I’d have one of my many personal assistants do it for me.

I kept enough to feel fortunate now, but often think how much better I’d be off if I had just gotten hit on the head and forgotten about them.

I’m still amazed though. A year ago, I told my wife we could think about selling those AAPL shares; it was already a trillion-dollar company, and I couldn’t see it doing much more- what was it going to do, double to $2T?

Yep.

[ztirffritz]

GGD wrote: Maybe Elon needs to get kicked out of his own company like Jobs did, and use that time to learn from his mistakes and come back more determined and mature for a second chance. Do we think AAPL would be where it is today if Jobs hadn't left in 1985 and spent time at Next and Pixar?

He was. He was ousted from x.com/PayPal.

[sekker]

ztirffritz wrote:
[quote=GGD]Maybe Elon needs to get kicked out of his own company like Jobs did, and use that time to learn from his mistakes and come back more determined and mature for a second chance. Do we think AAPL would be where it is today if Jobs hadn't left in 1985 and spent time at Next and Pixar?

He was. He was ousted from x.com/PayPal.
Like Jobs being kicked out of Apple, this was the best thing that ever happened to Musk.

[d4]

sekker wrote:
[quote=ztirffritz]
[quote=GGD]Maybe Elon needs to get kicked out of his own company like Jobs did, and use that time to learn from his mistakes and come back more determined and mature for a second chance. Do we think AAPL would be where it is today if Jobs hadn't left in 1985 and spent time at Next and Pixar?

He was. He was ousted from x.com/PayPal.
Like Jobs being kicked out of Apple, this was the best thing that ever happened to Musk.
100%

Business Insider reported that in October 2000, Musk wanted to switch the PayPal servers from a Unix platform to a Microsoft Windows platform, but the other cofounders didn’t like the idea.

While he was on his way to Australia for a vacation, Musk was fired by PayPal’s board.

It was during that time that he was inspired to found SpaceX and Tesla. He founded Tesla in 2003 because it would solve the problem of sustainable energy and he founded SpaceX in 2002 because it would help “make life multi-planetary,” he told the Caltech graduates.

In 2005, he told Fast Company that at SpaceX, his private aerospace company, failure is expected. “There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA,” he told the magazine. “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

“I gave both SpaceX and Tesla a probability of less than 10 percent likely to succeed,” he said.

[davester]

d4 wrote:

100%

Business Insider reported that in October 2000, Musk wanted to switch the PayPal servers from a Unix platform to a Microsoft Windows platform, but the other cofounders didn’t like the idea.

While he was on his way to Australia for a vacation, Musk was fired by PayPal’s board.

It was during that time that he was inspired to found SpaceX and Tesla. He founded Tesla in 2003 because it would solve the problem of sustainable energy and he founded SpaceX in 2002 because it would help “make life multi-planetary,” he told the Caltech graduates.

In 2005, he told Fast Company that at SpaceX, his private aerospace company, failure is expected. “There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA,” he told the magazine. “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

“I gave both SpaceX and Tesla a probability of less than 10 percent likely to succeed,” he said.

There's a problem with that quote. Musk did not found Tesla.