Perhaps a lack of commitment might explain everything away.
I am not trying to “explain anything away.” I think Lucid should have released AA ages ago. We are not in disagreement on that. I don’t know how to make that more clear, since I’ve said those words half a dozen times now, but: we do not disagree on whether Lucid should release AA, and that’s it’s a bad look that they haven’t yet.
That opinion can and does coexist with “… and I’m not certain it’s entirely their fault they haven’t yet.”
These opinions are not orthogonal.
But a lack of commitment on a product feature after communicating its immanent availability (Q3'2024, the latest date communicated) and (literally within hours of end of Q3'2024) sluffing the blame onto Google. Take your pick, is that incompetency? Lying? Lack of priority? All of the above?
None of the above.
Shit happens. Sometimes things occur that are out of our control. Sometimes they are not only out of our control, but entirely unpredictable. Sometimes, it happens at the worst times.
I had a tree fall on my house while I was in Italy. Why didn’t it do that while I was home? Very inconsiderate.
A year and a half later, another tree fell at my house. This time, a neighbor’s. Took out a bunch of stuff I’d just replaced from the first tree.
We didn’t throw a summer BBQ for two years because we were rebuilding it twice; but none of our friends necessarily knew that.
So did we “forget”? Not care? Were we so incompetent we couldn’t throw a BBQ?
No, shit happened, and we could not control it. How do I know? Insurance paid me, and they don’t pay if I was negligent or dishonest.
That is the most likely reason, as it is the simplest reason. It is obvious Lucid doesn’t like this, and that should be a fairly clear indicator that the issues preventing AA from release may not be something entirely in their control.
Imminent AA availability was communicated to many buyers (including me) as far back as mid 2022. Furthermore, AA was acknowledged as a deliverable by the CEO more than 18(?) months ago. Yet, it kept on slipping with no guidance from Lucid. It was supposed to be "done" by Fall of 2024. Latest explanation was "AA is out of our hands. Lucid's part is done. Delay is all because of Google".
Yup. That sucks. Really does. I wish they’d release it or make a fuller statement, but they may not be able to. For all I know, they’re contractually bound by Google not to. I have no idea.
Maybe they should. If they can. I hope they do.
Come on, these are lame excuses!
Not excuses. Explanations.
An explanation seeks to clarify a situation, providing reasons or context to make something understandable, while an excuse aims to deflect blame or responsibility, often by providing a justification for a negative action.
Ex: a vase is broken in the house.
Mom: How did this vase get broken?
Explanation: Shawn and I were wrestling and we knocked it off the table.
Excuse: Shawn pushed me into the table
See the difference? It’s a common mistake, but explanations are not excuses.
Lucid has never said they aren’t responsible. They have never said “Google sucks and won’t let us in.” They have said “we are working with Google to certify it, and at the moment the ball is in their court, but we continue to try and push it through and make any changes so we can get this out.”
They have not abdicated responsibility, which would be the requirement for it to be an excuse. They are still the ones on the hook for AA, which is why you’re here talking about it and not on some Google forum somewhere.
I can't believe any competent company taking a position that when some of the their SW has to be certified by a 3rd party considers their job done and sluff off the delay to another party that has to certify it!
What makes you think they consider their job “done”? I guarantee you they are regularly talking to Google to get this pushed through. I can also guarantee they cannot force Google or their partners to work any faster or to prioritize them any more than someone else, if that’s even the issue.
That's akin to Boeing saying the 797 is done, it is up to the FFA to certify it, schedule is unknown. Certification IS part of the development! A product is not done until it is certified and shipped to customers.
Who said it was done? It’s clearly not out, so it’s not done. Lucid hasn’t “waved their hands of it,” but has stated that it is outside their hands, at least as of when they last updated us. That’s not “we are done and don’t care,” but “we are in the final stages with Google, and we don’t control Google,” which is true.
You can call it what you want.
A significant delay that looks awful from a PR perspective, likely caused by outside forces and circumstances that Lucid did not predict (but perhaps could have, had they done this before, which they hadn’t), which has caused a lot of drama and unhappiness amongst owners of Android devices. Seems we can at least agree on that.
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