thegeneralist

This is truly a foolish idea. Do they not see how their customers use their car? And carplay?

Will definitely hurt GM sales, big time, and probably take several years to undo the damage. The innovation and speed to launch new services on carplay dwarfs whatever GM can do on its own, even with google, given the slowness of OEM software development and testing.

This article misses the larger point. A drone costs $200. Why do missles cost $3 million? Yes, this is a cold war era missile. But with drones, the last thing we need is more cold-war era kit.

Imagine a theater of war with $100 million worth of $200 drones in it. That's 500,000 drones.

Or 1 f-35 joint strike fighter.

I think I'd rather have the drones.

True, though a key difference is retailers (Walmart especially) aggressively negotiate against manufacturers to lower prices. For high end manufactured brands sold in retail, like soap, trash bags, etc., store brands are created by competing manufacturers in part to add negotiating leverage against a P&G or other major manufacturer. And there are few CPG categories without significant competition.

With pharmaceuticals, production capacity is hardly an issue. It will, ironically, cost Mylan more to make the "generic" new brand (pay for new branding, packaging, etc.) than it will to make and package the existing brand.

seems like this worked, being at the top of HN and all...