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And even the car company hasn't succeeded:
The Cybertruck is just dumb from the start, and between when Pony Stark announced the Cyberduck and today, Ford announced the electric F150, built an entirely new factory, and started churning them out.
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Yeup, Starlink will never be a big profitable business Because Physics (tm). Shannon's limit is real, which means you can only serve so many customers in a given area, and even in such an area many of those customers would be better served with point to point 802.11...