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John Siracusa

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Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

It's something.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Whereas this interior is just... It's a Johnny Ives special.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And getting to the specifics of this, by the way, like setting aside, oh, your upset doesn't look like Ferrari or whatever.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Just in the specifics, there's a couple of areas where...

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

They did well in areas where they didn't.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Casey already mentioned the physical controls.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Ferrari itself did capacitive controls on its steering wheels for way too long.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Everybody hated it.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

It takes them so long to change it.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

They were like, this year we're getting rid of physical controls on the steering wheel.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And they got rid of the physical start button, but they left other capacitive controls.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

It's like, no, Ferrari, please.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Just everything physical.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

So finally in 2026, they'll roll out a car which reverts to their previous thing, which is like, give me actual buttons on the steering wheel.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

So that's good.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

I applaud them for that.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

The clever thing with the dials and the screens, lots of other people have done similar things.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

This is obviously the much more expensive, much nicer looking Johnny I version of that idea.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

But it's not a bad idea.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

I don't fault them for that at all.