Bring Vivaldi to Tesla

[Pesala]

• Tesla has by far the largest market share for Battery Electric Vehicles.
• Tesla are leaders in self-driving, when owners will be able to work or play on the move, as well as at Super-chargers.

[Ayespy]

@Pesala It strikes me that Vivaldi is continually marketing to the entire automotive market. Which vehicle models ultimately get the browser is entirely up to the auto manufacturers. So if you're a member of a Tesla community, pressure them to adopt the Vivaldi browser.

[Pesala]

@Ayespy That is like saying that users who want Vivaldi on iOS should pressure Apple to help Vivaldi work on iOS.

Vivaldi is the small player here, which needs to be available to more users to gain wide-spread adoption. Individual users have zero influence.

[Ayespy]

@Pesala Apple users should pressure Apple to stop blocking alternative browser access, Vivaldi is obviously already doing so. Vivaldi is already building a browser to get by Apple's arbitrary restrictions. Tesla's arbitrary restrictions at this point are that their browser has to be designed by them. Do you imagine Vivaldi has never approached them? How would you suggest that Vivaldi overcome the restriction that the Tesla browser will be designed by Tesla?

[Pesala]

@Ayespy said in Bring Vivaldi to Tesla:

How would you suggest that Vivaldi overcome the restriction that the Tesla browser will be designed by Tesla?

I suggest a licence agreement that would allow Tesla to modify the Vivaldi code to suit their needs.

[LonM]

@Pesala I like Vivaldi because they make their own browser. If you let others start modifying the code to "suit their needs", then it's not really Vivaldi anymore. Just another browser. And at that point what's the point in Vivaldi being involved, telsa might as well just make their own browser.

[3dvs]

@Ayespy said in Bring Vivaldi to Tesla:

It strikes me that Vivaldi is continually marketing to the entire automotive market. Which vehicle models ultimately get the browser is entirely up to the auto manufacturers

[stardepp]

@3dvs Here you can see for which car brands Vivaldi is already activated:

https://vivaldi.com/de/android/automotive/

[pafflick]

I have forked some comments into a separate discussion here and locked this thread as it started getting too political. I don't think there's anything that needs to be added to the feature request itself - if you disagree, please let me know.