"F**k you" It's so weird to think that Tim Cook said F**k you to Elon Musk 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Elon Musk Reportedly Demanded to Become Apple CEO as Part of Potential Tesla Acquisition [Update: Musk Denies]
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Tim adds absolutely nothing to Apple. An extremely plain, boring guy.
Yeah but space travel for the average Joe still doesn’t exist and probably never will. Panel misalignments, soft paint, UI problems, self-driving being ****, and the reliability factor based on estimations by multiple auto manufacturers being at zero…?: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/teslas...tty-concerning-but-does-anyone-actually-care/
Gray areas for the vehicles themselves: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/tesla-yoke-steering-wheel-neither-tesla-nor-nhtsa-know-if-its-legal/
Lack of recalls until pressured to do so, something every older automaker does without question: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/recall...essure-and-recalls-more-than-130000-vehicles/
I mean, come on. You can like a product, but you shouldn’t see the world with rose-colored glasses and then be surprised when you take em off.
I can't say I'm a big fan of Elon Musk, but he's probably the closest thing the technology sector's got to a Steve Jobs right now - for good and for bad.
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Although it likely didn’t happen, I think it represents the positions and personalities of both participants, except for Tim who wouldn’t have responded like that.
Also, we need to keep in mind Tim’s comment to Kara might not have been accurate because, she’s not a 4K filing and he still needs to keep the car project as fuzzy as possible until it’s go time.
Also, we need to keep in mind Tim’s comment to Kara might not have been accurate because, she’s not a 4K filing and he still needs to keep the car project as fuzzy as possible until it’s go time.
Imagine Elon Musk had run Apple.
He invites Peter Thiel’s crew to run the software division.
Then our phones full of Palantir and Pegasus spyware.
When the covid started Elon keeps all the stores open. All the retail employees sick and taking covid home to their parents.
Customers suing because the stores were full of virus.
Hardware division.
Elon Musk promises next MacBook Pro will have robot self walking legs and brain interface and run at 20GHZ with 200 cores.
Promise never arrives.
Then Elon shows off CyberBook. It’s square everywhere. The keys and edges so sharp you can shave your beard with the laptop.
CyberBooks exploding because Elon overhyped them and made the engineers rush them out.
Every day he trolls and manipulates Apple stonk. So one day your stonk is $200, next day your stonk is $100, next day your stonk is $250. Next day your stonk $50 because the SEC finds out he’s a bit of a fraud.
Investors going mad trying to work out is the company profitable or is this guy just faking accounts.
Sales tank. People fed up with the Elon’s version of iPhone full of Thiel and Bannon spyware.
And Elon just sits there laughing like a cracker and orders another round of hair implants but this time for his chest.
He invites Peter Thiel’s crew to run the software division.
Then our phones full of Palantir and Pegasus spyware.
When the covid started Elon keeps all the stores open. All the retail employees sick and taking covid home to their parents.
Customers suing because the stores were full of virus.
Hardware division.
Elon Musk promises next MacBook Pro will have robot self walking legs and brain interface and run at 20GHZ with 200 cores.
Promise never arrives.
Then Elon shows off CyberBook. It’s square everywhere. The keys and edges so sharp you can shave your beard with the laptop.
CyberBooks exploding because Elon overhyped them and made the engineers rush them out.
Every day he trolls and manipulates Apple stonk. So one day your stonk is $200, next day your stonk is $100, next day your stonk is $250. Next day your stonk $50 because the SEC finds out he’s a bit of a fraud.
Investors going mad trying to work out is the company profitable or is this guy just faking accounts.
Sales tank. People fed up with the Elon’s version of iPhone full of Thiel and Bannon spyware.
And Elon just sits there laughing like a cracker and orders another round of hair implants but this time for his chest.
If this actually happened (which I doubt it did) it sounds like this was Musk's way of saying "I don't want to sell." An unreasonable request tends to end negotiations fairly quickly.
He would have been a terrible Apple CEO, but I certainly don't think he actually expected that to ever even be considered (again, if this actually happened, which it most likely didn't).
He would have been a terrible Apple CEO, but I certainly don't think he actually expected that to ever even be considered (again, if this actually happened, which it most likely didn't).
As a fan of both Apple & Tesla I wholeheartedly agree, and I would extend that to US citizens in general. Tesla put the US auto industry back onto the map yet so many Americans cheerlead for foreign manufacturers (German marques in particular).
Musk was certainly a good first mover getting into electric before everybody else. It’s far from certain, and truly unlikely, his product can maintain momentum as all the other OEMs move into that segment. They are likely to eat his lunch.
Musk Space has great tech but it is not really scalable to a large consumer base. Very few people are going to want to go live on the moon or mars and aside from those destinations, there’s nowhere else to go (also given how his rocket pollutes the F out of the upper atmosphere, it’s likely that before too long all kerosene fired space tourist jaunts will have to be banned.)
So I give him credit for what he’s done so far but I question its robustness against competition and external events and thus it’s mid-term sustainability and long term survivability.
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He must be annoyed because of the “f you” story making the rounds (even if he’s already denied it) so he had to take a jab at Apple.
A capricious “techno king” with a penchant for manipulating social media and markets under a faux “he’s one of us” pretense.
Elon is very much like Steve Jobs he shouldn't be running the company he should just be coming up with the ideas and let the professionals run things.
Come on daddy Elon run Apple like you run Tesla! Show us your RGB vision! Announce products that are worse versions of current products that you never intend to release.
VAPORWARE FOR LIFE
VAPORWARE FOR LIFE
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Exactly, Elon definitely has the arrogance and certainly the huge ego to make such a demand, and I can imagine Tim telling him where to go and hanging up. I won’t be surprised at all if this was true. I despise Elon for his character, admire him for what he’s built, but as a character I find him incredibly nauseating.
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I 100% believe that Musk is being truthful that the phone conversation never happened.
That doesn't mean such discussions didn't happen through proxy channels.
I also 100% believe that Musk would pre-condition a merger by demanding that he be made Apple CEO.
And I think that explains why Cook refuses to meet with him directly. He is not going to give Elon an inch that he could use to play the media and put market/investor pressure to make such a dumb idea happen.
That doesn't mean such discussions didn't happen through proxy channels.
I also 100% believe that Musk would pre-condition a merger by demanding that he be made Apple CEO.
And I think that explains why Cook refuses to meet with him directly. He is not going to give Elon an inch that he could use to play the media and put market/investor pressure to make such a dumb idea happen.
I imagine some version of this is what happened. Disaster averted, though. Musk running Apple would be a train wreck.
Tesla cars have a mystique about them... but they haven't changed the industry. I think Tesla has sandbagged electric vehicles as a whole by trying to shoehorn new technology into stupid expensive supercars. We need to rethink the whole car/road system if electric vehicles are going to become more than a rounding error.
SpaceX is pretty amazing... but Musks other ventures(SolarCity, Tesla, Hyperloop, Neuralink) range from outright scams to just poorly conceived. He deserves a TON of credit for trying stuff... but most of the stuff is garbage. In all likelihood he would have run Apple into the ground.
