I'm assuming the short term fundamentals remain unchanged but from your 30+ years experience, what's the medium/long term impact spanning possible outcomes?
My naive thought is there is a singular true story followed by a tsunami of false hit pieces with an extra helping of political attacks piled on top and I can't stop thinking "why" and "why now"?
Of course and the main point still remains. Early adopters of Elon products beware, the calculations will change and typically not in the customer's favor and often with little notice. I choose not to lose anymore money to the chaos of early products he pushes. When unit economics stabilize and are reasonable, I might use them but not until then.
I was an early adopter on the beta test plan for their development and running 150-200 Mbps in 2023. Then suddenly I was "no longer their ideal customer" paying $149/mo. I still have the hardware on my roof but has been inactive for a couple years now. In retrospect, it should have been obvious I was just providing funding to their development, same thing with FSD and being a beta user at $15k cost. I've learned my lesson with early Elon products. I'm not providing funding as an early adopter just to get rugged later. I use grok build and Cursor almost exclusively every day but something about Grok Bot didn't seem right so I never installed it. Now glad I didn't.
Yet another Elon rug-pull. Happened with Starlink early adopters (bandwidth cut to 50Mbps in my city) after after SX/T-Modile announcment, happened with FSD purchases (I paid $15K in 2023) no longer transferable, happening with SpaceXSI subs now.
All great products but early adopters will always get rugged by Elon.
@CSI_Starbase@GroundTruthPics Sounds like someone has some first hand knowledge of B-1 stuff. 😏
Hypothetically, one would call the MX/flight-hour a meat grinder if they had some experience.