Self-driving vehicles are not only here to solve food delivery.
In the US, the average American spends about 365 hours a year driving, about an hour a day.
I'd much rather use that time to work, read a book, or a dozen other activities. It's over 6% of my waking hours.
Parts of the USA never had self-scanning due to theft concerns.
Now there are stores that are pulling out of specific neighborhoods due to theft even with a cashier in place.
This is such a common misconception, if companies never passed savings on to us, we'd be paying absolutely astronomical prices and you couldn't afford to buy anything at all.
Shirts used to be hundreds/thousands of dollars or days/weeks of your own time, a lot of people had to weave their own fabric and make their own clothes because they never earned enough money to afford to buy one pre-made since all their work went into feeding themselves. Average people didn't own more than a handful of sets of clothes up until the industrial revolution. Almost all of the benefits of automation in fabric production has all been passed down to you.
You can now pick up a t-shirt from Walmart for $5, or a dress shirt for $50 both of which are far higher quality than what used to exist.
Profit margins for most consumer goods industries are not that high usually around 50% from creation to consumer (split between the manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer) and some industries are much lower even than that.
For the first bit, sure, but it won't stay that way for long. The price of these vehicles is dropping, and the price of humans is going up.
This is exactly what I expected to happen, it's taking a bit longer than I thought, but that's not surprising.
Enterprises, sure.
Homes? Why? I can't even find a good use for a single gigabit download for personal use. Being able to download a new game in 3 minutes rather than 5 isn't something I'm willing to pay additional money every month to get. Remote desktops, video streaming, gaming, there's nothing uses that much bandwidth even in my household of 5 people.
Screen manufacturers just did a similar thing with the jump from 1080p to 4k
The 1080 part of the original number referred to the number of pixels from top to bottom, 4k refers to left to right. 4k is actually only 2160 from top to bottom though (at the same aspect ratio).
So they quadrupled the number when it should have only doubled, and it was entirely a marketing thing.
Except it isn't a piece of shit. It does what it says it does on the box. The fact that people expect it to do far more than that is their fault, not the fault of the product.
It's frequently the best tool for the job BECAUSE they already have it. If you need another tool, with another login, with more licensing costs, and more training time, and more support, it's often a worse option even if it has more features.
If they're trying to spin up an intranet and share some files within the organization, it's absolutely amazing. If they want a simple database containing active work items for a small team to process, it can do that too. If they want a central place to see who's currently on vacation... SharePoint's got you covered.
If you're trying to use it as a ERP system, it ain't going to work. If they want a full fledged CRM, also a bad idea.
SharePoint can meet at least 80% of the requirements for most office business processes involving files, pages, or single database tables, and it can do it for 20% of the cost/effort of dedicated software. If you want all the bells and whistles, that ain't going to cut it though.
I think a lot of that is a lack of knowledge around it's capabilities, it's not as flexible as other systems, but at the same time it's absolutely amazing at doing certain things really fast and easily. I have thousands of people using systems I've built in SharePoint and more than half of them don't even know it's SharePoint. They just pop in, use it, and get out.
I make a ton of money using SharePoint, why would I not love it?
There are at least 3 different app based food delivery companies (uber eats, skip the dishes, door dash) in the city near me, on top of the fact that a lot of places have their own dedicated delivery people (Grocery stores, pizza, even liquor stores)
There's clearly a competitive market in this space.