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That's just software versus hardware.

If you have a solid software platform you can scale it up to millions of users at very little operation cost per user.

But a robot? You have a very significant cost per unit. Not to mention lots of risk if you have any warranties and for your brand.

Like if you ship 100k units and they have a critical component that gives out after 2 months due to a bad manufacturing run that's a huge cost.

You don't have that type of risk with software. Software is just way less risky and way more profitable.



Then you have Tesla....


I don't remember Tesla having massive recalls, especially compared to other car manufacturers that had tons of those over the past years.


This wasnt about recalls (although there was some), it was about valuation of hardware VS software companies...




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