alt Hacker NewsThe one lesson companies refuse to learn from Apple and Nvidia is that a race to the bottom isn't the optimal strategy in the short, medium, or long term. It only hold both in the super long term in which you assume that innovation is dead or that innovation can be done at no extra cost.
If people had a slightly different perspective on this we would already have drones delivering food, but because of this mistaken belief drones won't be economically viable for the foreseeable future.
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It wasn't a matter of lack of vision but cold constraints of reality resulting in the person fueled plan B. If I recall correctly they (the industry) already tried flying drones and wanted to have trucks as mobile hubs. Regulation said no to it. Because of the risks of delivery drones or their packages falling from the sky. Ground drones aren’t quite there yet just like self-driving cars (plus issues with where they would be allowed to travel).
> because of this mistaken belief drones won't be economically viable for the foreseeable future.
i dont think it's mistaken.
A crashed drone is a capital loss for the delivery app company. A crashed driver is not.