The article mentions that some party has the chance to reinvent the car, and that qualcom is really making the fully connected digital chassis.

Here's my problem with it all - I don't car about your chassis if you can't figure out how to replace batteries easily. Inevitably, EVs will take over. I want a way to change the battery in a few hours, not weeks.

By extension, this also means that hopefully you would be able to purchase a new cabin of a vehicle and swap it onto your existing platform. Sick of your interior? Keep your platform but buy a new cabin.

That's my pipe dream. A few sled types (small medium or large) that you then, can then add cabins to. Future cars will be more like horse carriages.

Malls? What is this, 1983? Even out here in the Midwest where you need indoor shopping with heating when it’s under 20° and AC when it’s over 100°, malls are dead. We had so many, now we’re down to 3, and only 1 of them ever has any people at it. The other two are half vacant units too

I had to look it up, I was just following his designation scheme haha.

You know you guys are real nerds for specifying the full designation with /IN. Who knows the full ship names like that?

But about that return to office, we still need you in at least a few times a week.

Man it’s hard to keep up with these now lol

This sounds like an article in an Silicon Valley episode about Pied Piper.

Those need special permitting and they usually can't be in spaces designed for offices without a ton of construction. So yes it could be done, but it would be super expensive in an already ass expensive area. It's why a ton of biotechs are moving to Texas.

Apple comes late, but they brings better optimization then rivals.

Note: Haven't read the article, responding based on the title.

Poor tech companies, hopefully our government gives them a bailout.

**Someone already replied but I'll put it again, BayArea owners keep on voting against to put more residential buildings to protect their overpriced real estate.

This is the reality tbh.

So you might see these spaces mostly getting converted to some kind of mall or something else which doesn't effect the house prices**

My team and coordinate when we will go into the office. And sometimes we go weeks without going in and sometimes we have to go in everyday for a few weeks. Really depends on where we are on a project. Go in during initial brainstorming. WFH doing the bulk of the early software development. Back to the office to do bring-up and debug on new hardware.

"How much do you tip your landlord?" vibes.

That's a way to do it. Changing zoning still has issues with NIMBYs fighting against it.

I almost asked if you were going for something like that. I thought it was a meme I hadn’t seen.

For software. For hardware, I have to go to work. I can’t properly bring up and debug hardware at home. Just don’t have the required equipment.

A better idea would be to introduce regulation for big-banks to price property rentals at or slightly below market rents with high fees for keeping properties vacant to drive up the cost of rentals.

They'll quickly realize they're not making as much money as they want and will sell the properties themselves.

I was going for a gag:) like the teacher that says read all the directions on a test before starting then the last question says do nothing… and then we play Heads Up 7 Up.

I was with you till your last sentence. They’re both exactly 1000 times each other, though.

The residents that ensure these zoning laws care more about their home prices being elevated then the growth of the area.

Investement stimulates economic activity. As a super simple example, it can make it possible to start a business without already having the necessary capital. The alternative to investing money is simply hoarding it, which benefits no one but the person who has it. Money really only exists when it is in motion, and investment keeps it in motion. I'm sorry the world isn't as simple as you would like it to be.

And, if you are launching a new startup you’re no longer gonna commit to big leases when you could use that money for R&D.

Downtown Dallas has started doing this recently. All those downtown office skyscrapers are being converted into housing which is definitely a nice step to reinvigorating downtown to a place people live instead of just commute to

I'm guessing that he's mostly concerned with, and talking about, skyscrapers where they're so tall that the water pressure can be a problem for the higher floors.

Yeah who's clamouring for more malls lol