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ve very simple um a couple of reasons first of all um autopilot is for highway driving right and um the thing that the Tesla doesn't have doesn't believe in is uh a lidar and this has been an area of huge debate in the industry where pretty much I would say 95% of people think that it's a very good idea to have more data not less data when helping a car decide where to go so uh Elon along with startups who frankly don't have a budget to create a system um with adequate lar coverage uh they're th
Android's a really big deal 80% of the market ... obviously not the highest end users not the most valuable users which which Apple seems to have a pretty good lock on at least in the United States and a few other Western countries
they can't do that ... they're under anti trust scrutiny
they're looking for partners
it's a challenge to get them implemented
they're not a hardware company they're not going to be a hardware company
they're actually looking at at kind of um very specific chip designs ... they want the chip makers like Qualcomm mediatech sprum um all these folks in in mainland China as well to use
there's actually a now a group inside of Google that's actually like um working on on on chip designs and things like that
Google's trying to solve the the first two problems
Google is worried about a few fragmentation issues
this change makes no difference but it's symbolic
I think it's a really good thing because at the very least it shows that Jack is willing to piss off the core user base in the interest of hopefully he thinks widening the user base overall so if they're willing to take a chance and make us mad but not to the point that we leave that's great they should do that all the time I mean we want Twitter to succeed right we want we don't want it to go away