Tim Cook is a competent CEO. Perhaps even more competent than Jobs at the job of CEO. But Apple is a corporation. A corporation exists for the profit of its shareholders. It doesn’t exist to “benefit society” or anything like that. It survives if it makes good products/services and sells them at fair prices that earn them adequate profits.
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Elon Musk Claims Apple Has 'Mostly Stopped' Offering Ads on Twitter and Is Making Moderation Demands
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Yeah I edited out the Hahahas. That wasn't cool to make light of it.
But clearly, your comment was a stretch.
When has Apple criticized the Chinese government? Yet they have criticized US Supreme Court decisions and have directed most of their political contributions to one of our two major parties.
He is a great CEO. No doubt about that.
But he isn’t a decent human being. I just don’t like all of this virtue signaling.
First time I went to Guanlan as PD- I went to eat with factory workers at their cafeteria. It was pathetic.
I am proud of product I brought to the market. But I am not proud of things happened at factory side. Unless you don’t have a heart- it’s tough to swallow and maintain that blind eye. You can only do it for so long until your conscience catch up with you. I just reached that limit after close to 6 years of checking my own ethic standard at the door.
That is why when people slam Elon and not Tim, I simply don’t agree. Because I have first hand experience on harm that Apple brought to the factory worker.
Although to be fair- if it wasn’t for Apple those people probably wouldn’t have a job to get out of poor farming community. It solved a large social problem for China but at what level of sacrifice
Moving the goalpost again? You say things without basis and then you change the topic to another anti apple rant.
Apple havent done anything here to Twitter. Musk has ranted about Apple with as much basis as you have provided. Who cares where lobbying money has gone? Apple are bringing manufacturing back to the US, and that often takes lobbying for tax incentives to make it actually profitable. Or they could just stay overseas. Meh. Doesn’t worry me, I’m not in the US.
Libertarianism is fundamentally a right wing concept, at least in America. Sure it’s different from, and often contradictory to, classic social conservatism, but it never the less coexists within the right wing bubble.
Yeah, it seems The Left tricked Elon into buying Twitter and destroy it from the inside!
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Yeah, it’s the poor Democrats languishing in poverty that are buying the $1500 phones.
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Posted by 9to5Mac. This article pretty much sums it up. Now we know why Elon Musk was crying earlier today.
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Apple made up 4% of Twitter revenue in Q1 as biggest ad buyer; recent estimates show change - 9to5Mac
How much truth is there to Elon Musk’s claim that Apple has “nearly stopped” buying ads on Twitter? New numbers...
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Twitter’s new user registrations are at an all-time high, as is their traffic…
Did you reply to the wrong post or something, not see how any of that is relevant to what i said.
Posted by 9to5Mac. This article pretty much sums it up. Now we know why Elon Musk was crying earlier today.
Apple made up 4% of Twitter revenue in Q1 as biggest ad buyer; recent estimates show change - 9to5Mac
How much truth is there to Elon Musk’s claim that Apple has “nearly stopped” buying ads on Twitter? New numbers...
He was crying to protect free speech. There is no justifiable reason to disallow Twitter on the App Store, and threatening him with moderation talks or outright removal is a completely totalitarian move by Apple - frightening, actually.
I read your statement as suggesting that because many liberals have left the platform, that Apple’s customer base won’t be seeing their ads as frequently, so it isn’t as profitable for them to advertise over Twitter. I don’t believe that a large chunk of the users leaving are huge Apple buyers.
Everybody is there to see the train wreck. Human nature I guess. 🤷🏽♂️
The right doesnt like free speech either. They were the ones complaining about rap music etc. now they want to pretend they support free speech. LMAO. 😂🤣🤣🤣
They were banning books in libraries a few months ago. The right is just mad that the center left is the ones who is banning them from doxxing people and sending out veiled death threats and other harrassment of individuals. 🤔
The right and the apologizers just dont like it when they are censored. Elon regularly bans people who criticize or make fun of him. So… free speech only matters when its his speech being impacted.
All we have as a source for that is Musk himself, Apple has not commented on it, nor is there anything else indicating Apple has threatened doing as much. Now if you choose to believe Musk above anything else, that's your prerogative. But that doesn't mean it's actually true.
Link to independent data to back that up?
I dont know anyone whos signed up for twitter within the last three months. I do know people whove cancelled and people who are waiting and seeing like myself and the people who are there for porn.
Elon’s claims are sus. He just unbanned a whole bunch of people. He also claimed that many twitter users were bots. So I dont believe him until we have verifiable proof. Im curious about what the financial statements will say. My guess is Elon is simply engaging in stock price manipulation. Additionally, Twitter ads have horrible conversion rates. Many companies dont like the brand safety implications of advertising Twitter.
Its okay when Elon cancels low performers…but its not ok when Apple cancels the low performing Twitter ads.
What are we talking about here? I'm completely lost. It would seem the world is coming to an end....
Naaa… I dont buy that. Elon is just greedy. He is trying to bully Apple into spending ad money on low performance Twitter ads.