106: That’s Slightly Right
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2015
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- Tesla and "customer sat"
- Apple's Minivan
- Apple/Tesla poaching
- What is Apple building?
- Sugar water explained
- Auto parts suppliers
- Maybe it's not a car after all? Or perhaps they're self-driving?
- China and manufacturing capacity
- Pebble Time
- Post-show:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Damage on I was about to read that nope save it for later |
| 0:05.3 | Well, I have that cover later in the follow-up section. It's all in there see |
| 0:11.4 | This is what I get from messing with the King's follow-up my apologies |
| 0:15.2 | All right, I think follow comes with the follow-up fairy comes at night |
| 0:21.8 | Just like you wake up. It's like Christmas morning. Wow this follow-up on the tree |
| 0:26.1 | You know the question where it comes from |
| 0:28.7 | Though I know it comes from the King so King would you like to start our follow-up about the apple of cars? |
| 0:34.4 | Only if you give me a nickname is distinct from Marco who you also called it. That's true |
| 0:38.6 | Wait, I'm the king of something. Let's start start calling Declan the King |
| 0:41.7 | We'll see how that goes. What am I the king of? Yeah, I don't know mufflers |
| 0:47.3 | Fracture app icons something like that |
| 0:51.1 | All right, so the first item is a tweet from Daniel Silva talking about |
| 0:55.2 | Whether Tesla is the apple of cars and he gave a link to a consumer reports owner survey asking about repair |
| 1:01.9 | experiences and |
| 1:03.9 | I was saying that the independent repair shops outscored dealership services |
| 1:08.0 | With one exception and that exception was Tesla which had excellent customer sat |
| 1:14.2 | Makes it the apple of car. Maybe the sound effect for that maybe just like a third |
| 1:19.4 | Seriously, what is the sound of one customer sitting? |
| 1:22.8 | customer sat |
| 1:26.0 | Yes, you bud. Yeah, oh, that's so bad John. All right, so yes |
| 1:30.6 | So Tesla has great to customer sat thus they are the apple of cars |
| 1:34.2 | I mean to be fair as people pointed out in Twitter like since this is a thing about repair experiences |
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