What big companies do you think will not be around in the next 5 years?

Tesla fanboys.

The globally lauded and recognised JD Power Dependability global survey for 2021, the most recent survey, placed Tesla 30th out of 33 manufacturers.

31,32 and 33 were Jaguar, Alfa Romeo and Land Rover. And boy are those brands terrible.

The metric for Tesla was 176 issues per hundred vehicles.

The top performers were Lexus, Porsche and Kia at 81, 86 and 97/100 respectively. All serious Tesla rivals themselves and all now with electric models of such quality that they should make Elon Musk turn pale!

Not many companies have an industry wide study in how not to do things, commonly known as "Production Hell", from the Hollywood movies term. It is taught as a cautionary tale as part of the Harvard MBA. I'm not even joking.

So either buy the Porsche Taycan, or the Kia EV6, or even the excellent Skoda Enyaq if you want a car that will just perform day in and out, or buy the American sh1t box with the ludicrous mode and you can entertain the boys in the golf club. Until its towed away.

We have probably reached peak coffee, so I guess the johnny-come-latelys, weaker chains and mom & pop horsebox operations may founder first. When things get tight, the expensive treats will be first to be ditched.

Except it’s more like €3.50 plus these days. €2 I could live with. I’ve certainly reduced my purchase of pricey coffees much as I like them

Dublin prices ? Can get a decent coffee for 2.70 in Cork 😁 though I drink americanos…

The treat rebound in recessions is exceptionally quick though. There were loads of articles on how takeout pizza recovered rapidly here in ~2011 as people started using Xtravision (Netflix only came here in 2012), Apache and cans to replace cinema, restaurant and pints.

Back on guessing what'll go - there's got to be streaming service mergers, people are not going to pay for eight-ten-whatever total services.

It isn't just one cup of coffee we're talking about here though. It's people who have got into the habit of treating themselves regularly to a coffee and maybe something to go along with it. That adds to quite a lot of money over a month if you do the sums.

We took pay cuts in my workplace back in 2009 because of the recession that hit around the time. The first things to go for most people were the deli rolls and lunches in local pubs and cafés.

Tesla's big problem is the other manufacturers have pretty much caught up with them in terms of battery range and design. The other manufacturers have vast dealer networks all over the world in all big cities with a big support team should anything go wrong, Tesla will never scale up to this and so will need to eventually merge to stay alive.

Gah. I hate the trend for big screens shticking out over the dash

Tesla have done a great job of marketing themselves, and becoming a 'brand'.

Even young kids now, who know nothing about cars, know about Tesla.

That’s true,

however young kids or not many are in a position to be able to get behind a Tesla wheel.

again, if they in time have 70,000, the fûck, Merc vs Tesla ? It’s a no brainer.

Someone in Los Angeles rented a Tesla and did this on Saturday night. It's quite a video.

Personally, I think it's a metaphor for the fortunes of Tesla Inc.

Read analysis of Tesla's market cap by Forbes or Barrons or the likes and you'll see very easily understandable ways why it so overvalued.

If they are worth $1.x Trillion, then the overvalue is one trillion.

HP are still the dominant vendor of business PCs. They should probably exit the consumer market.

Creative have refocused on speakers and headphones - they'll probably last in that market. They do still make PCIE soundcards but basically nobody uses discrete soundcards anymore. Pro market uses USB interfaces, broadcast market uses AES67 AoIP implemented in software, consumers use whatever onboard they get - or bluetooth. It isn't an important part of their business anymore.

Lots of the "Realtek" sound cards are Realtek software on Intel or AMD silicon, its fairly rare to have an actual Realtek chip although they do exist.

No. Better at all is questionable unless you have specific needs - digital out, or 7.1+ (onboard is usually 5.1 capable) or similar. And in those cases a USB interface is probably easier.

If you're an "audiophile" that buys oxygen free copper, gold connector ethernet and HDMI cables and gets laughed at by actual audio professionals you might convince yourself you'll hear something better. But you aren't.

I think using the machine and waiting is much more convenient than using the till. Love the Big mac but I don't know how people still eat the rubbish macdonalds fries

Didn't they have one at O'Connell Bridge, on the Bachelor's Walk corner, early 80s? I think I had my first ever work lunch there.

This reliable source suggests that I'm correct.

I said it was more convenient as I'd rather sit and wait for my order while on my phone rather than stand at the counter for a few mins and I certainly don't want the hassle of having to queue. Nobody is holding a gun to your head and saying you have to use the machines

People who mention Netflix as being vulnerable must remember that they have pivoted before and made a huge success of it.

Netflix were originally a web based DVD rental company.

You bought a subscription online, which gave you access to a certain number of DVD's per month.

You ordered your DVD through the website and returned it in the post within a certain period.

They were doing that in the late 1990s in the US.

They then moved into streaming when the tech made it commercially viable.

So I'd expect them to be able to keep up with the Joneses given their history.