krait's comments

On: Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks

[krait]

Hi - toggling that setting requires a re-login to get Spaces to stop interfering with productive work. The windows still really want to jump to a specific display.

On: Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair

[krait]

Apple does pay artists a much larger cut than Spotify. At e.g. 5000 streams Apple pays the artist ca 37 USD vs the 22 USD that Spotify pays out.

[ric2b → krait]

$22*1.30 = $35.1

Interesting, so Spotify could pay nearly the same simply by paying the 30% to artists instead of Apple.

And of course, those 37 might already be partly paid by Spotify anyway.

[grotsnot → ric2b]

22*1.3 = 28.6

On: Tesla envy grips Germany’s giants

[krait]

The canonical reply from Elon Musk on profitability is that they hope to profitable on a GAAP basis in 2020. Let's see if external investors hang in there long enough to allow this. ( http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-04/as-tesla-g... )

It will be very interesting to see what happens to the used Model S prices now that Tesla took away the buyback guarantee for new cars.

[Retric → krait]

Compared to shorter range cars I think they are going to do much better. A 90 mile Nelson leaf is ok, a 60 mile neon leaf on the other hand. A 5 year old model S likely has more range than a new leaf and if it bothers you getting a new battery will drastically boost that range.

So, at resale a model S is probably well north of 30k.