# Tesla, software and disruption — Benedict Evans

<https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/8/29/tesla-software-and-disruption>

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## What Jamie wrote

This article captures part of the intrigue I have about Tesla, and what got me to place the order for my Model 3. I’m particularly interested in the integrated nature of the software stack in a Tesla, and the fact that Tesla is so far ahead of any other automotive company in how they change it. I think of what Apple did with the iPhone. Before the iPhone, the phone you bought was the same forever. With the iPhone, you bought a phone and it got better with software. The thing you already owned did new stuff it didn’t do when you bought it. Tesla has that potential, and I want to be part of it.

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## Appears in

- [WT70: Weekly Thing #70 / Sep 8, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/70/), Featured Links 🏅

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