Who on Earth is in the set of peeps who's both wealthy enough to do so and lives in awe of Musk? Wouldn't such fool and said fool's money have been parted long ago?
Every Firefox upgrade involving tabs makes me hope they finally debug the tab closing button on macOS. Disappointed again. On macOS the tab close button belongs to the left side, not on the right side. Firefox still gets it wrong.
This is a usability flaw that renders it basically unusable to me. I suspect this oversight stems from too many programmers not having enough understanding about proper application design and development on the Mac. It's a cultural issue then.
But I keep hoping, mainly because other browser vendors get it right. Namely Vivaldi and Opera amongst others.
It stands for Enhanced Chip Set as improvement from OCS, which stands for Original Chip Set. Note that even ECS found it's successor AGA, which stands for Advanced Graphics Architecture. AGA can display 256 colors even without using HAM (hold and modify).
(1) In a fully automatized economy, owning a link in the last mile of food delivery is valuable.
(2) You could make a USP out of "our robots are clean: best hyghienic condotions for your pizza." This works until some journalist finds leaked machine oil in your tomato cake.
(3) The wisdom of the ages speaks of being ten times better. The design goal for the iPhone was to be ten times better, than other smart phones of that era. Not just better. Ten times better. I fail to see how current pizza delivery can be improved ten times. Maybe it can. But it's pretty good already.
> I fail to see how current pizza delivery can be improved ten times.
Before reading this thread's comments, I would have agreed. But I have to admit, ordering a pizza and then ten minutes later receiving it at my doorstep having been removed from the oven less than a minute ago seems like a 10x improvement to my current experience.
They were trying to build a technical moat that 2 guys and truck couldn't replicate. They didn't care what business was started as long as it had a moat and was scalable.
I'm with you. Zume would have had a better chance if they refunded $440 million of that investment money, then spent the last $10 million to buy a few trucks and hire human beings to make the pizzas.
I wonder what that would cost the customer for it to be profitable. I doubt I'd pay 2x what I currently do for pizza delivery even if it was as I described above.
Where I live Dominios can't find/afford drivers to deliver the pizza(one is in jail for Jan.6th).
I find the whole premise of Zune offensive to common business sense. The demand for pizza cannot be so great that it deserves this type of automation. This complex production path effort has no chance of payoff and contributes nothing to the product the customer wanted, a pizza.
The crazy thing is that pizza production is so simple and the only reason to make it complex pizza production is the business model not.
I assume they were starting with pizzas and planning to expand to other cuisine from there. The idea of having hot, freshly-cooked food delivered to your door is one that could be worth a ton of money. But this wasn’t the right path, apparently!
We had a tiny local “startup” selling freshly made but cold gourmet Roman pinsas that you would heat up in your own oven at home. They failed for personal reasons, but while it lasted it felt like the future of takeout pizza. You can google a bit of info (in Danish) about them by searching for Spiga1991.
It didn't truly cut most humans out of the loop. The one near my house still had 2 delivery drivers because the pizza vehicle was permanently parked down a side street. They were only saving the cost of the third, pizza cooking employee and the capital expenses of the robot truck probably outweighed that single minimum wage several times over.
Their MVP was simply missing any key differentiators from established competitors except for the terrible pricing.
Failure in the mobile assembly line is what the article mentions but is kind of irrelevant if you're still just selling pizzas to people. No one really cares about buying pizza from this unknown company so they have no product market fit. imo cutting minimum wage humans out of the loop will not yield a big enough profit weighed against the machine and vehicle maintenance costs combined with the skilled labor costs to deal with them.
