Tesla pivots from Cybertruck to Cybercab as legacy tech lingers
Tesla is winding down Cybertruck production to free capacity for the Cybercab (50391456). Commenters mocked the timing and the logic, joking that it's like leaving the unemployed slob to date the alcoholic, and listed the earlier promises of 'awesome' trucks and flying cars. In the same feed, the US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks in air traffic control by 2028 (50388001), a reminder of how long old systems last.
On a smaller scale, 'Running a law firm on Free software' (50403066) drew a warning that firms using Harvey are handing it everything needed to integrate vertically and become the Amazon for law.
The common thread is dependence. Vision pivots are cheap to announce and slow to deliver, and the old stack underneath keeps running for decades.
So what?
When a big company pivots publicly, read what it is cutting, not what it is promising. For vertical software, the lesson from the law-firm thread is that handing a vendor your workflow data can come back as competition. Keep the option to leave.