Comments on: Apple, Tesla completely embarrass Microsoft whose employees should be livid, ashamed or both

By: NHL

NHL — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 03:49:05 +0000

While speaking with a Bell rep, they mentioned that I would be eligible to receive a Samsung Tablet if I did such and such.
I replied that Bell really didn’t put much value on my intelligence if they were not offering iPads.
The rep said, “Oh. You know your stuff.”

By: KenC

KenC — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:12:32 +0000

The funny thing is I’ve been thinking about buying a Tesla S, next year, with some of my Apple profits.

By: KenC

KenC — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:08:50 +0000

““Walk into a Tesla store. You see something modeled after an Apple Store,”

Of course, Tesla retail is run by George Blankenship, formerly of Apple retail.

By: cartoonasaur

cartoonasaur — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:32:29 +0000

The revolution will NOT be televised. If you think you’ve seen it all from Apple (and all of Steve Jobs ideas), think again – the development/concept of the iPad started in 1984(!) as the entire PURPOSE of the company. There is an entire ecosystem of ideas to come now that the iPhone/iPad planet has been formed…

By: Tom Bamford

Tom Bamford — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:25:03 +0000

The idiot talks his usual crap.

Go away and troll somewhere else BLN.

By: Alf

Alf — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:00:11 +0000

I had the same reaction to Musk’s comments.

I wonder what Elon thinks when he ponders the fate of his own enterprise? Some day he’ll be gone. According to his thinking, on that day it will be all over for Tesla but the shouting…

By: Alf

Alf — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:56:48 +0000

Yes, Musk should really have kept his mouth shut there. Stupid comment from a guy who seems, at least in other areas, to be very smart.

His comments were thoroughly taken down in the comments to the article about his sputterings in wallstcheatsheet.

By: Alf

Alf — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:52:47 +0000

What sucks about it, BLN? The world-leading electric range? The world-leading performance? The 5-star safety rating? The touchscreen-based operator interface?

Inquiring minds want to know…

By: HTML5 Gordon

HTML5 Gordon — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:23:36 +0000

Tech revolutions don’t happen every year. They didn’t under Steve either.

And it isn’t like Google is currently setting the world aflame with innovation lately either – other than having people walk around in public with prop Project Glass headsets that don’t actually work.

By: Sane

Sane — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:21:14 +0000

Don’t feed the troll.
Tesla rocks.
Musk is a man of vision. The Model S makes everything else out there look dated. It is expensive for exactly the same reason Macs are expensive. They’re the best you can get and people aspire to own them.

Testicle boy is just a dick with a Dell and just like the rest of the cretinous sheep that troll Apple news and videos.

By: lrd

lrd — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:19:18 +0000

Why aren’t you getting on Google’s case for copying Apple with Android, mind you to the point of flagrant patent infringement, copying iTunes, the AppStore and even phones cases! Now I read they want to copy AirPlay too.

Like Microsoft is no worse, actually better, than Google.

By: HTML5 Gordon

HTML5 Gordon — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:17:32 +0000

Yeah, Elon may be wrong about Apple vs. Google, but I certainly can’t knock him. Elon has already accomplished enough to not simply be a “footnote in history”. And I’m pretty sure he’s not done just yet.

By: Jubei

Jubei — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:48:56 +0000

BALLSMEAR is the best…EVER!

By: fricfrac

fricfrac — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:37:43 +0000

Ahhh…Stanley Kubrick, a true master.

By: Agent Provocateur

Agent Provocateur — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:32:42 +0000

Elon helped found PayPal, owns a company that beat the Aerospace giants to space on the COTS program and is producing electric cars and components for electric cars for Toyota and Daimler. I’d say he’s doing pretty damn good.

By: mossman

mossman — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:52:15 +0000

Business class IS second class.

Buy first-class tickets if you want an iPad

By: botvinnik

botvinnik — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:50:23 +0000

>Mac Plus, great visual.

By: Toast

Toast — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:43:16 +0000

If you think Apple with its billions in R&D spending each year doesn’t have another couple key products in the pipeline which you have never heard of you’re not following their history and the history of “launches”.

There is the launch (iPod) followed by the build-out upgrades, while other products (iPhone) come stealthily in from below with no notice.

Their terrific engineers know what products they want to see in their lives and they are designing a number of them. We will see.

By: althegeo

althegeo — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:41:37 +0000

Apple has been making Macs for 28 years. It’s been 28 years of speed bumps and better hardware and software.

iPod, iPad and iPhone will be done the same way.

The next big thing, when it arrives, will be a new idea.

Until then it will be speed bumps and better hardware and software. WTF is wrong with that tried and true method? No other company can do that simple thing. They can do speed bumps, hardware or software, not all three.

By: Four More Years

Four More Years — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:34:54 +0000

I smell that you just pulled that out of you ass…..it’s dripping too.

By: Xug

Xug — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:26:41 +0000

I’m with Elon here. Lately it has started to dawn that Apple may be running out of ideas. You cant just speed bump iPads and phones for years to come.

Note: before Forstall was let go, he was said to be sending emails to others at Apple, asking for ideas. That doesn’t sound like a good sign.

By: Daily Reader

Daily Reader — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:21:50 +0000

Yes…and American Airlines hands out Samsung tablets to Business Class passengers on some long haul flights. I think it’s foolish. When I’ve been handed a Samsung tablet by a well-meaning AA flight attendant I can’t help but wonder why AA management thinks it’s OK to give me a second class device. If they truly value me as a customer…they should give me the gold standard…an iPad.

I’m quite serious. It feels like they’re being cheap and that’s NOT the message AA (or Emirates) should be sending to their premium paying passengers.

By: hannahjs

hannahjs — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:17:40 +0000

But both of those chaps are aspirational exemplars of business acumen compared with the revolving-door leaders of Nokia, Research in Motion, and now HP.

By: Darwin

Darwin — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:16:00 +0000

Emirates is your example?

By: Four More Years

Four More Years — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:15:49 +0000

Elon says that Google will topple Apple. My estimation of him went way down after that. And, No! He does not come close to Steve Jobs.

By: Critic2

Critic2 — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:14:26 +0000

I would bet a good amount of money that Emitates is being paid to do so by Microsoft. Apple has never had to pay for product placement

By: iAppleTennisU:-)

iAppleTennisU:-) — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:13:53 +0000

Heehaw

AAPL will go up to $829 in 2013 …

By: Four More Years

Four More Years — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:08:22 +0000

Emirates thinks otherwise. They are adopting windows 8 tablets for their planes.

By: sherm66

sherm66 — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:06:08 +0000

Check out the misguided responses at that article. It’s hilarious, and disturbing that there is a large part of our society that are actually THAT dumb!

By: RP

RP — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:06:07 +0000

I am in awe of Telsa and Elon Musk, as much as I am of Apple and Steve Jobs. Kindred spirits.

By: xil

xil — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:00:31 +0000

Too bad that Telsa is run by a mindless twit who thinks that Google and Android will win the day b/c Larry Page is in charge and Steve Jobs is dead. We will see, Elon, who wins the day and who is a footnote in history.

By: Sucker

Sucker — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:52:20 +0000

…said the testicle that wished someone had sucked it.

By: greggthurman

greggthurman — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:50:12 +0000

Neither Gates, nor Ballmer, have vision of the future. One is an accomplished bureaucrat, while the other was an effective thief. When the thief could no longer steal, he left with his riches. The other isn’t smart enough, or care enough, to recognize that he’s out of his element, and should his mentor.

By: Ballmer's left nut

Ballmer's left nut — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:50:02 +0000

Tesla Motors sells $100,000 suckage.

By: MrMcLargeHuge

MrMcLargeHuge — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:45:57 +0000

MDN: great, great picture.