Elon Musk Reportedly Demanded to Become Apple CEO as Part of Potential Tesla Acquisition [Update: Musk Denies]

[ff_will]

Elon Musk [...] peddles his half baked garbage to the tech nerds with deep wallets.

Anyone see the irony in this? ...on a Mac fan forum? I'm by no means a Tesla fan. But as a Mac customer "half baked garbage for nerds with deep wallets" unfortunately does sound a bit familiar... 🙈
(And now the defenders of the cult can roll in! 🤣 )

 

[WLSON]

Why did you ignore the other post I made directly above it? here let me quote myself:

it’s not innovation, unless you call indentifyung business development opportunities or marketeering innovation. GM’s EV1 in the 90s was innovation. Chrysler’s Neon being the first car in the world 100% computer designed and prototyped was innovation.

Underground tunnels with RGB lights your electric cars drive through at a slow rate of speed that’s an order of magnitude worse than 1920s era subway technology is not innovation. Musk deserves credit for making electric cars more desirable than just an appliance, but to say that’s on the level of Jobs or really any other technological innovation since the early 1900s is laughable.

Sound logic. Then the iPod was not innovation because it was not the first .mp3 player. The iPhone was not innovation because it was not the first smartphone. The Mac was not innovation because it was not the first computer. The GM EV1 was not innovation because it was not the first electric car.

What part of the Boring Company being a side gig do you not understand? He's simply trying to find a use case on Earth for something required for the colonization of Mars. By the way the Vegas loop is doing exactly what it was planned to do and it cost the LVCC a fraction of the conventional 'people mover' solutions proposed.

 

[N1noodle]

Dont get the musk haters, But comparing cook with musk is weird ,one is a grey suit and money man, other visonary and tech savvy also a risk taker.

Forgott to add nothing wrong with either.

 

[happydude]

This is so stupid. The “sources” don’t claim to have heard it from the CEO. They claim to have heard people talking about it at the water cooler. It‘s third degree hearsay.

You’re still at this. Dude move on.

 

[Jefferyd32]

Why?

It’s stock manipulation. It discourages innovation and investment into product and services, it’s bad for consumers, employees and everyone except stock holders.

 

[cmaier]

It’s stock manipulation. It discourages innovation and investment into product and services, it’s bad for consumers, employees and everyone except stock holders.

It’s not stock manipulation. Stock, by definition, is an ownership share in the company. The value of a share is the value of the portion of the capitalization covered by stock, divided by the number of shares. Buybacks decrease the number of outstanding shares, but not the capitalization, so each share is worth more. It’s basic math. Your share price increases because your share corresponds to a larger percentage of the same pie. How is that “manipulation?”

As for the rest, simply stating it‘s “bad for x, y, or z” without any explanation or proof is the worst form of argument.