Xiaomi, which produces smartphones and consumer electronics, delivered 135,000 E.V.s last year after tapping China’s robust manufacturing supply chain.
Chinese cars are a known data privacy nightmare with proprietary software/ecosystems.
Tesla is much the same in the US… I’ve heard it analogized as “Tesla is the Apple of the automotive industry” and it is hard to argue they’re not. Like the iPhone at its first launch, Teslas were the “new hotness” until they became so ubiquitous they are now the most basic bitch car ever. They’re massively overpriced for what they are, they promise lots of features that often fall flat in execution, they are terminally online and reliant on proprietary cloud services. They collect tons of user data and do lord knows what with it.
All that said, can you imagine if Apple itself had successfully launched a car in the US market? Its fanbase would be beyond insufferable and it would likely have all the worst issues of both Chinese cars and US EVs.
Chinese cars are a known data privacy nightmare with proprietary software/ecosystems.
Tesla is much the same in the US… I’ve heard it analogized as “Tesla is the Apple of the automotive industry” and it is hard to argue they’re not. Like the iPhone at its first launch, Teslas were the “new hotness” until they became so ubiquitous they are now the most basic bitch car ever. They’re massively overpriced for what they are, they promise lots of features that often fall flat in execution, they are terminally online and reliant on proprietary cloud services. They collect tons of user data and do lord knows what with it.
All that said, can you imagine if Apple itself had successfully launched a car in the US market? Its fanbase would be beyond insufferable and it would likely have all the worst issues of both Chinese cars and US EVs.
Apples data handling policies are pretty clear.