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Elon Musk: If You Don't Make It at Tesla, You Go Work at Apple

iphonedude2008 said:
No kidding. Look at Apple's exploding profits and market cap under Cook. That guy could turn a profit on radio players
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In the business world, CEOs who know how to run a company and make a profit are a dime a dozen. There are very few visionaries in the world like Jobs and Musk.

Cook is still running Jobs company and vision.

I expect Musk to hand off Tesla to someone like Cook at some point so he can focus on going to Mars or something.
 
Dmunjal said:
In the business world, CEOs who know how to run a company and make a profit are a dime a dozen. There are very few visionaries in the world like Jobs and Musk.

Cook is still running Jobs company and vision.

I expect Musk to hand off Tesla to someone like Cook at some point so he can focus on going to Mars or something.
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Very good point. I better be living on Mars in 70 years :)
 
Musk is a visionary. Musk is very much like Jobs in the sense of ego and ruthlesness. Anyone could have taken Jobs place and ran with it. Elon is literally changing, or trying to change, the world.
 
oliversl said:
So Apple is all about making money now?
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What? No. Logic, much?

Like all corporations, Apple is primarily about making money, but they're about a lot of other things, too. Especially since Cook took over. I'm sorry that they're not focussed enough on fulfilling your wet gadget dreams.
 
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dotnet said:
What? No. Logic, much?

Like all corporations, Apple is primarily about making money, but they're about a lot of other things, too. Especially since Cook took over. I'm sorry that they're not focussed enough on fulfilling your wet gadget dreams.
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It's not that simple. Every corporation is a about making money no doubt. The difference is how much you compromise the product and the user experience and how it is priced.

Steve Jobs and I would say Elon Musk are about building "insanely great" products and pricing them appropriately to make the the target profits. Cook doesn't seem to be about making great products as a priority but instead maximizing profitability.

Longtime Apple customers notice the subtle difference.
 
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JGRE said:
Broke?
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Heh. Yeah, I'm guessing they would like to avoid that aspect.

JGRE said:
Subpar to what you would need.
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I suppose a lot of people on these forums live and grew up in cities. For them, the range is OK, I guess... and that covers an ever-increasing percentage of the population. But, there are still a lot of people for whom that isn't very good range. Where I previously lived, I'd not have made it to the next reasonable sized city, let alone a charging station. :)
 
Seems like a recurring trend.

Many companies like to take potshots at Apple in an attempt to elevate their own standing, but how many actually have what it takes to walk the talk and deliver at the end of the day?
 
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Elon Musk was right after all. If you don't make it at Tesla, you go work on Apple Car and create a hazard by making it stop in the middle of an expressway.
 
mi7chy said:
Elon Musk was right after all. If you don't make it at Tesla, you go work on Apple Car and create a hazard by making it stop in the middle of an expressway.
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I guess that's better than killing people by running them into the sides of semi-trucks, or into cement barriers on freeways.

But, really, we need to clear all these hazards off public roads. Too bad the politicians are seeing $$$ and allowing these companies endanger the public.
 
With the way Tesla is going, I'd say this is classic Elon ego. Can't wait to buy my Apple Car if it's reasonable.
 
He’s not making it, so he should take his own advice...lol.

Apple probably told him they didn’t want his failing company.
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rendevouspoo said:
Musk is a visionary. Musk is very much like Jobs in the sense of ego and ruthlesness. Anyone could have taken Jobs place and ran with it. Elon is literally changing, or trying to change, the world.
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Totally, totally wrong. Cook is amazing, probably the best CEO in the world.
 
I think Elon is butt hurt that his company is failing, and Apple is now the first trillion-dollar success story.

Even Tesla's Board of Directors are trying to silence Elon, and attempting to ban him from stupid Tweets. His own Board is on the verge of ousting him and throwing him out. Deja vu with Steve Jobs.
 
Apple is waiting for the technology to be ready for their average customer. Tesla has taken the big hits on faulty tech. The Model 3, I would not buy because of quality issues.
 
Elon Musk - isn't that the little **** that sent an underwater coffin to Thailand to rescue school children trapped in a cave? Sorry, not to rescue school children, but to satisfy his ego? Who was then told by the guys who did the job to stuff that boat up his ****?
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mi7chy said:
Elon Musk was right after all. If you don't make it at Tesla, you go work on Apple Car and create a hazard by making it stop in the middle of an expressway.
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I thought they made it safe by stopping _before_ it entered the expressway when there was no safe gap to enter.
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SnowLeopard OSX said:
Yeah, right. Elon Musk has a company that literally builds ****ing rocket ships. And he heads that company, AND an eco-friendly electric car company at the same time. So you're right. Building cars isn't rocket science. But building cars AND rockets? Not to mention other "small projects" like PayPay, solar city, etc.

He studied applied physics.. at Standford. He's literally a rocket scientist.

What say you to that? :D
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Building rockets - they did that 75 years ago in Germany.
And rocket science isn't exactly brain surgery :)
 
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