Like, this was obvious that this would occur with Amazon and Wal-Mart, because Wal-Mart's record great innovation was negligible, and Amazon's was very high. The outcome was obvious. - So, super interesting to me. I absolutely love that he said that this is not a walled garden, because that is something I detest. I do have an Apple iMac and laptop because I think the hardware's great, but I also run Windows on those things.
And the reason that I bring that up is because Apple is the most famous one for this, for having the extreme version of the walled garden. For example, Siri can't play songs from Spotify. Not because it's technically not possible, but because they want you to use their services. That's that wall. They want you to use all of their things, and once you get one thing or two things with them because they're good or you hear about them, then that's all you can ever use, it's really really hard to kind of leave the garden. And so I love that they're doing that. And this goes back to the whole theory that Elon has talked about for so long regarding open-sourcing their patents, like if you're in a sinking ship and you got the best bucket design, why wouldn't you share that with everyone else like you're all sinking in the same ship. So this line of thinking, like we're all in this together, the goal is to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy, not to be the most profitable company as a result. Also, the whole theory of if other automakers jumped on board with this and they actually did it, then that would help EV adoption tremendously. I am speculating that that's why they haven't done it. That that's why GM and these guys, and even Ford, and we'll talk about this in a little bit, Ford is scaling back what they're producing to basically be just trucks and SUVs, it's one of those things where that's where their biggest margins and so they don't want EVs to be successful. If they did, if GM and these guys really, really wanted electric vehicles to become popular or to be successful, then they would, they would pay Tesla so that then, instantly, without spending an additional dollar, their customers would be able to access this giant network that they've been building up for years. You can see I have a map of the US here, there's also ones in Asia and in Europe, and they're growing in all the different markets that Tesla's in, so it's one of those things where I think that the old manufacturers are trying to keep us away from innovation, and as Elon mentioned, that doesn't work out. Although I would disagree with his analogy with Amazon and Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart is still a giant in the retail space, so, yeah. Amazon's obviously incredibly successful as well, but Wal-Mart's not going anywhere soon. So anyways, super interesting stuff. I would love if anyone else started to do that. I also think that if somebody did, that they would gain so much good will from their customers, that it would probably exceed whatever kind of negative thing or weakness or anything else that it might show. Okay, next we have some more updates on Gigafactories and I think this is gonna unveil, I think, I don't know if he meant to unveil this, but I think there's a couple of other things in here that are super interesting, so let's dive in and listen to the question about the next Gigafactory. - [Galileo] And a follow-up, when will you make a decision regarding a second manufacturing facility? - [Elon] So, that's probably later this year. It has to be later this year. I'm not sure the exact time, but I don't know, maybe next quarter, but not later than fourth quarter.
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