Electric cars also existed 100 years ago, but that doesn't mean Tesla doesn't deserve credit for completely reestablishing the category.
Not an insult. I'm highlighting a business branding issue. A mistake Apple, for example, would never have been so careless as to make.
It’s like bringing Sams Club soda to a picnic when people are use to Coke and Pepsi
See, it's a vicious cycle, the aggressive M&A strategy leads to a need to increase sales, which leads to a larger marketing budget, which finally trickles down in to the price. Now price is actually segmented itself, in terms of up-front elasticity and "walled-garden" elasticity, which Apple can monitor independently of device sales through marketing novelty through the app store and seeing if the nibbles are elastic onto services, say like Apple+. Historically they also have segmented product (XR, Pro XR) to get more data points for the degree of price elasticity, which is probably most responsive because they're the most expensive thing on the broad market.
Even Apple’s cheapest phone - the iPhone SE is over $100 more expensive than the average Android phone sold in the US.
Apple has usually sold this years model, last years model and the year before that concurrently. Sometimes when the n-1 model is too expensive to sell at a discount they introduce a new phone (ie the iPhone 5C)
Sorry it’s got nothing to do with classism, just objective differences.
thinking of the South Park fart smelling prius meme.
FTR - I have no problems with EVs, but I do give myself a good chuckle when I see someone who was proud enough of their vehicle purchase to turn their it into a billboard advertising something / someone (Musk) who has fallen from social grace.
Both the Nissan Altima and Tesla Model 3 sell very well and are entry level ("entry level" here meaning entry level for the class of vehicles one is looking for, there are entry-level Mercedes' for instance) sedans with power behind them. So you have a lot of them both on the road, and thus more people who likely treat them as disposable and thus drive them recklessly. Any car that is super popular usually is popular enough that enough of the wrong kind of drivers have it, and so you can start stereotyping them. I think Model 3s have a lot of the wrong kind of drivers on the road. Maybe many of them care about saving the environment but they don't drive like they care about the car.
How do you say you’re in a bubble without saying you’re in a bubble…
I guess maybe a Camry? That’s a boring practical car that doesn’t carry much stigma.
You choose who and what you associate with in this world, and your car is one of the things which, whether you like it or not, will define perceptions of you.
A premature rocketulation man-baby is not who I want to associate with or help fund.
The stereotype in the US is anyone driving a BMW, and any sort of lifted pickup. A non douchey vehicle, as a class of vehicles, would probably be a minivan, a Camry, or a Civic.