Why is Musk attacking Apple? They do not have competing business's. I wonder if he isn't getting his way in some deal.. <jk> 
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Elon Musk: Apple's App Store Fees Are a 'De Facto Global Tax on the Internet'
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Elon, we’ll talk when you take that cross-country full self-driving coast to coast trip you wer going to take about a year after I bought one of your vehicles (like 2017ish). and when you fix my unresponsive radio controls. Or remember the hidden WiFi network I use after a reboot. Or how about when the only thing preventing me from having full self-driving (since I already paid for it up front with full knowledge of it low probability of happening) is regulatory approval? Harder than you thought? Will it happen before the end-of-life for my vehicle even given I had my last one (and still do) for 33 years before I purchased yours as my hopefully “last vehicle”?
Don’t get me wrong, I like my Tesla, but it does have “issues.” And your loudmouthing about things you know nothing about like a hyper loop transport dowasn’t make it better. Nor sending a Tesla into orbit (although I’ll give you that at least you didn’t send yourself.
I also like my Apple stuff, but there’s a lot I would like different or better. Grass is always greener on the other side.
I would say Elon has visionary moments. I would say Tim Cook for the most part how to do his job as CEO and shut up.
Don’t get me wrong, I like my Tesla, but it does have “issues.” And your loudmouthing about things you know nothing about like a hyper loop transport dowasn’t make it better. Nor sending a Tesla into orbit (although I’ll give you that at least you didn’t send yourself.
I also like my Apple stuff, but there’s a lot I would like different or better. Grass is always greener on the other side.
I would say Elon has visionary moments. I would say Tim Cook for the most part how to do his job as CEO and shut up.
And I hope that you will have alot of fun driving them, to each his own.Which is fine. Meanwhile we'll continue to enjoy the best cars in the world
he is trying to get people who antagonize apple to buy his stock through renewed goodwill. Or even to get apple shareholders to funnel their gains into $tesla. Shrewd businessman, no mensh though.Why is Musk attacking Apple? They do not have competing business's. I wonder if he isn't getting his way in some deal.. <jk>
Or asking Tesla to let anyone use tehir charger for free, with any charges for electricity going drectly to teh provider with Tesla getting a 0% cut.
Or opening up Tesla so that people can rebuild salvage vehicles and service ones they own them themselves, and providing tools to thrid party developers so tehy can roll their own upgrades and have access to Tesla's OS.
Or why Apple knows how to make a profit off of its core business instead of relying on government programs to occasionally eak out a profit.
Apple hurry up and build your Apple Car and put this guy out of business already so he goes away…..this guy is about as annoying as one can get.
*for consumer tech. It's funny, the same people and companies telling us what a fail open source tech would be are the same entities building their proprietary software off the back of open source tech (PyTorch, Linux, programming languages and their associated open source libraries, etc.)
That's the difference between open source solutions and free labour to fix tools in open beta (edit: I have no clue of what I'm talking about.)
The AI is predicting a major accident soon in your vicinity. Trust the code.
Cryptocurrency is one of the greatest pyramid schemes of all time. I say that as an early advocate. I still believe the fundamental technology (blockchain in particular) is ground breaking and will be extremely useful going forward but the pumping and dumping of useless coins is the sort of financial trickery people used to be put in jail for.
I see what you mean. Like companies that 'open source' parts of their product to get people to fix things for them meanwhile the fundamental product they're building is still closed source/proprietary in nature.
Nothing here is factually incorrect nor based on flawed logic. It is always acceptable to target success for no other reason than revenge for not being equally successful. When other people have more it’s acquired through deceit whereas the redistribution of their wealth is fair until someone uses it to also be successful. The only strategy is to burn all excess crops else you risk being purged as well. Fairness is when everyone worries just a little bit that they may starve. Wealth is thievery. Victory is failure. Freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength. Peace in our times.
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Looks like someone is really afraid of the Apple Car that may come out soon.
Looks like someone is really afraid of the Apple Car that may come out soon.
Agreed.
Tim Cook should respond like: "Apple does not respond to persons of interest who may soon be imprisoned due to SEC violations. Cough cough.... Musk."
fact is, Intel has had a gross margin of ~ 55% for well over a decade - so, Apple is not allowed that for the App Store?
Not saying 30% is right, and they don't take 30% from everybody anymore, but keep it in the business context
Good of you to mention you own a Tesla because the default Tesla stan response to any criticism is one of the following:
"I bet you don't even own a Tesla!"
"You're just jealous of Elon!"
"You're an oil shill bot paid off by TSLA shorters!"
That could be one case, I myself refered to the tools as simply being devices to make you work with them within a certain framework.
I am not defending Apple but I don't think Elon Musk can comment on this sort of stuff, he is a hypocrite.