Electric car road trip -- PBS News hour

Today I found out that ChargePoint does not own the network, it does not even franchise the network, they call themselves a Service as a Service, they sell the equipment and provide software to bill and otherwise manage the chargers but each owner does and charges whatever he/she/it wants.

Curiously that is similar to the difference between Mac and Windows. Mac insisted that developers follow the Apple User Interface Guidelines while Microsoft had no similar directives. When we were developing our Desktop Help for Mac we discovered that Microsoft Excel was not following the rules for Cut, Copy, & Paste. While pitching our software to Apple we reported this. At first they were skeptical but checked the code. We were right. Apple picked up the phone to Redmond and told Microsoft to fix it which Microsoft did. (1985) :wink:

With this difference in approach it’s no wonder that Tesla’s Supercharger network works better.

The Captain

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