> This is silly doomsday insanity, Apple will be bankrupt soon kind of hilarity.

Apple is probably not a good comparison here.

Apple was about three months from bankruptcy when Steve Jobs came back, and his pulling it back from the brink is regarded as a once-in-a-lifetime turnaround success. If Tesla's situation is as dire as Apple's was, that is not a good sign.

Note also that before he had time to introduce things like the iMac and iPod, Jobs had to stop the bleeding by brutally slashing unproductive businesses. I don't see Tesla doing anything like that.