GalacticRobot

Unihertz literally sells a dozen more powerful phones for less than $500. Their cheapest phone currently which still is a better offer is $100. And Nothing's cheapest phone currently is $419, still cheaper than this vaporware phone.

They won't ever get to 90%, they have slowly moved up from 35-40% over 20 years.

Is it? Seems data centers are able to do it quite quickly, and all at the cost of local taxpayers.

Seems pretty easy, instead of incentivizing and infrastructure around gasoline, you incentivize electric already. Data centers are already pushing this for their own use, why would it be impossible in your mind to do this for a transition to greener energy usage?

This isn't exactly correct or truthful. A new EV Bolt is only $4k more than a new Camry, and that difference is quickly made up from the gas saving, especially when gas is $4+ a gallon.

And when you want to accelerate adoption of something, you incentivize it. The US already spends $40+ billion in direct subsidies for oil (https://www.americanprogress.org/article/5-hidden-ways-the-government-rigs-the-market-in-favor-of-fossil-fuels/) Imagine instead of giving that to oil companies, you used that to accelerate the development of EV's and their roll out.

That and there’s only so much gas, once we burn it all up it’ll take millions of years to replenish.

Umm, AFAIK, we actually can't make more oil, so there isn't going to be any more gas, just work harder to find what's left. We absolutely should be moving to alternative energies to power civilization.

They are getting a lot cheaper overall. The EV Bolt is less than $4k more than a Camry. In expensive places like California, or with gas as high as it is, you can quickly make back that additional cost and get ahead over time, especially if you are able to charge from home. And TBH the Bolt isn't that bad of a car, and get's great distance per charge.

Everytime you bring it up, you get a whole lot of people with gasoline powered cars getting very angry. Sure batteries are not 'perfect', but they are a whole lot better in almost every way compared to gasoline powered vehicles.

Maybe they are using OpenBubbles or something.

Isn't there a whole lot of small volume 'phone' companies that are charging far less? Nothing Phone, or the plethora of Chinese companies like Unihertz come to mind.

Sure, they do virtual credit cards, but I haven't seen credit card companies that do it quite like Privacy does. It's super simple to make individual cards for different 'bills', then pause them or get rid of the card as needed. And you don't even need to use your actual name or information on these virtual cards, so the merchant doesn't get your information.

Is Apple's profit margins on hardware 90%? I thought it was still high but around 40%.