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Interesting. I would have assumed the correlation is with the rise of the internt and smartphones, but it looks like the drop precedes that.
I was pretty pissed when I went off to college and my parents threw away my 80s computer that would now be considered a classic.
that's irrelevant. They're selling panels at a profit and are churning them out by the millions daily.
Some of them, esp in central/eastern Europe, were rudely woken up in 2022 when Russian tanks rolle into a neighboring country. Others still have their heads buried in the sand and will not wake up even when Chinese robots march in Taipei in a few years.
But the solution to this should be to simplify the tourist experience and to allow payments from foreign banks and cards. Traveling to China has a huge hassle in the late 2010s due to everyone local switching to WeChat/Alipay but it not being available for tourists, but in the last few years (I last visited in 2023), you could use WeChat/Alipay with a non-China bank card.
Twitter posted a profit in only two of its eight full fiscal years (turning profitable in 2018 and 2019)
In its last year (2021), Twitter reported a net loss of $221 million on $5.1 billion in revenue.
Tell that to the millions of people in EU and China who have EVs as their only car. I swear Americans live in the 50s in 2026.
At the same time, western manufacturers are closing factories and begging for EU bailouts.
I don't understand how this works when the models are evolving so fast that your burned ASIC is outdated (or at least not top of the line) in a few weeks.