Bluefalcon to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoTIL How Elon Musk Picked Tesla's Strange Charge Port Placementwww.pcmag.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down115
arrow-up123arrow-down1external-linkTIL How Elon Musk Picked Tesla's Strange Charge Port Placementwww.pcmag.comBluefalcon to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-squarehalcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·6 hours agoOther companies being unwilling to accept the licensing terms doesn’t mean the option was unavailable. Either way though, none of that has anything to do with port placement, which is what the article is trying to claim is strange for whatever reason.
minus-squarespongebue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoYou could put a price tag of eleventy billion dollars on something and say it isn’t unavailable. When you’re effectively handing over your business for it, it practically is.
Other companies being unwilling to accept the licensing terms doesn’t mean the option was unavailable.
Either way though, none of that has anything to do with port placement, which is what the article is trying to claim is strange for whatever reason.
You could put a price tag of eleventy billion dollars on something and say it isn’t unavailable. When you’re effectively handing over your business for it, it practically is.