That’s his brand though. Tesla doesn’t pay for marketing so publishing his public statements draw attention to the company.
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Elon Musk: Apple's App Store Fees Are a 'De Facto Global Tax on the Internet'
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It's interesting to me that others feel they have a handle on how much it costs to run an App Store. Consider the backend: data center, computers, power, cooling, maintenance, code reviews, etc.
There's a cost associated with the App Store and then of course there's some revenue that should be associated with it too. Is Apple just supposed to eat the cost? Give me a fricking break.
What I hear is "Man, Apple makes a ton of money... I wish I had some of that... and since I don't, I'm going to bitch about it in the press and litigate it in the courts..."
There's a cost associated with the App Store and then of course there's some revenue that should be associated with it too. Is Apple just supposed to eat the cost? Give me a fricking break.
What I hear is "Man, Apple makes a ton of money... I wish I had some of that... and since I don't, I'm going to bitch about it in the press and litigate it in the courts..."
Ummmm the doge pump and dump? The man himself said he pumps cryptos. I used to admire this man, until he lost his cool on twitter. If he is not fighting a diver today or pumping garbage crypto/stock, he is fighting Bezos tomorrow
Apple Maps is poop though. I'm driving on the free flowing freeway cities away from my destination and it keeps directing me to take surface street so instead of 20 minutes it'll be >1 hour drive.
It's much more intertwined and complicated than that.
Apple uses the control to drive hardware sales (with huge margins, even more control, large upgrade markups -- and the cycle feeds itself).
I can't wait for Musk to leave for Mars.
He probably thinks this will be an attack on the Apple Car.
What a load of crap coming from a guy whose company won’t let consumers fix their own Tesla’s, and will in fact turn off access to the Supercharger network, or they brick the car, when someone repairs a Tesla outside of their own authorized facilities. Hmm, doesn’t sound like an open system to me.
Weird way to write this. You quoted pretty much the whole tweet and got it backwards.
Epic is willing to take those costs on themselves by creating their own store, but apple won't let them.
I respect that guy as a businessman but he should sometimes stay quiet or reconsider what he is going to say.
I love my Tesla Model S but I can be as happy with a Tycan or an MB EQS. But when it comes to phones and computers I can’t see my self with any Android or PC.
So I can dump Tesla and be happy with another high end EV. No way I am dumping Apple for anything else.
So I can dump Tesla and be happy with another high end EV. No way I am dumping Apple for anything else.
Android reaches a higher percentage of the population than iPhone. It just happens that those that actually buy apps instead of pirate them tend to be in the iPhone userbase. Businesses want that paying customer base for free so of course they are going to complain and call it a "tax"
Businesses can choose to not support iPhone. It's not required by law that everything supports iPhone. Everything is a choice. Support iOS. Don't support iOS. Support Android. Don't support Android. or Support both. Its all a choice just like the choice users make when they decide which device to buy.
I'm tired of people trying to force their choice as a business onto Apple and have it override my choice (and a billion+ other users choice) to use a walled garden OS.
Eliminating Apple's walled garden is the anti-trust/anti-competitive move as it will just make iOS the same as Android and everything else out there. Apple's competitive advantage is its closed secure system.
It is 15% now. But many others still take 30%. So….
Tesla cars are the most "walled-garden" EVs. I deeply admire Elon as an engineer, but this guy should stop acting like a celebrity and should really ****.
Great point - Apple on the other hand makes devices that are easy for consumers to fix on their own!
Spoken like someone who doesn't understand crypto. Doge pump and dump? What did he dump exactly? Dogecoin is up 2000 percent since January. Do your research.
Hey when is Tim Cook going to stop suing small mom and pop shops who repair your IPhone? Or working with companies like Foxconn who literally have suicide nets outside their facilities?
So Elon fell out of bed this morning with only one thought on his mind, slag off Apple publically?
False. Whenever I want something done to my Model 3, I take it to The Electrified Garage in Seabrook, NH. It's a team of several former Tesla employees, they use official Tesla parts, and their prices are generally about half of what Tesla charges.
A gas supplier in the Netherlands, Holthausen Group, claims to have increased the range of a Tesla Model S, making it the first company to successfully supplement a Tesla with a hydrogen power source. It's called project Hesla.
To achieve this they needed the 'hack' the Tesla software. They were successful ... but mr. Righteous was not pleased. The involved model S was put on the 'stolen' list. Don't mess with MY ecosystem.
To achieve this they needed the 'hack' the Tesla software. They were successful ... but mr. Righteous was not pleased. The involved model S was put on the 'stolen' list. Don't mess with MY ecosystem.
Coming from the guy that makes paid software upgrades for you to get the most out of the car and then wipes them once a new owner takes possession of the car and makes them pay again if they want it.