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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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How can he be a conman when he has a proven track record of innovation? His companies are literally the leaders of the EV and Space industries.
How relaxing!
"Honey, take a load off and read a book....should be a chill ride for a couple hours....unless of course the car steers us into an overpass at 75mph and our whole family is instantly killed"
OMG. I'm so glad Elon Musk did not acquire Apple and glad he's not Apple CEO. To me, Apple seems to be running quite well with pretty good products and good service experience.
OK so let’s go back to 2009, or around that time when Steve Jobs was still around.
In that year alone, Apple made all of the batteries in the entire MacBook lineup non-replaceable. He also removed the firewire port, a popular port of the time, from several of their computers.
In 2010, Apple introduced the iPad, a product that is not upgradable at all, as well as the second generation MacBook Air which, on top of losing several ports and having a brand new MagSafe cable that was not compatible with old ones, was even less upgradable than any of their other laptops.
And let’s not forget that under Steve Jobs, Mac OS X lion began the iOSafication of the Mac, and The MacBook Pro with retina display began development under Steve Jobs, a product which was even less upgradable than anything else, not even letting you upgrade the RAM.
If you truly think that Steve Jobs was a mascot for upgradability, he was not. He did not want Apple products to be messed with.
Steve Jobs also loved white bezels. The new 24 iMac with colorful aluminum and glass, that’s extremely extremely thin, and isn’t upgradable at all would be a product that Steve Jobs would have been very proud of.
If this is in any way true, Apple really dodged a bullet here.
And for those that say Tim Cook isn't a good CEO and that Apple has "suffered under him", how many $2.5 Trillion dollar companies do you manage?
And for those that say Tim Cook isn't a good CEO and that Apple has "suffered under him", how many $2.5 Trillion dollar companies do you manage?
Anecdotal experience.
The fact that Autopilot has been used for over 3 billion miles (data point released back in 2020, likely nearing 10 billion miles today if you plot it out on a graph) suggests it's widely used by many on a day to day basis
Fair enough, but it's not like I can put non-OEM parts in a Tesla nor can I get service outside of Tesla's network.
So I doubt that Apple products would be magically significantly more "self-repairable" under Musk's stewardship than Cook's based on how he runs his car company.
So if this is true, the CEO of the company who was looking to be bought due to financial hardship at the time, wanted to run the entire firm and replace the CEO of the company who was doing the buying? Does anyone know if an acquisition of that nature has ever been done?
The infrastructure bill that just passed has a provision for a coast to coast charging stations as part of the Democrats green push. I see this as Elon trying to play the good guy because he knows the screws are tightening. Lotta competition now from other car manufacturers in the electric space. I do like Elon but this is how I see it.
You could argue this happened with McDonnel-Douglas and Boeing in 1997.
It takes to be a ruthless savage to be CEO of this corporations. Even Steve Jobs was fired from his company. This is a dog eat dog society.
Anecdotal experience is all I can go off of because I don't trust the numbers being released by Tesla. They do not have a good track record of transparency and there's no way they would release information about Autopilot fails in good faith as that would devastate a pillar of their company.
You mean to tell me that journalists routinely lie? That they totally fabricate events and conversations? I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you. 😁
That's standard operating procedure for journalists.
That's standard operating procedure for journalists.
If anecdotal experience is all you have, then it doesn't really set a good foundation for your argument.
Tesla has over a million Autopilot capable cars, large majority of which autopilot come standard with the car. Assume 500k-750k cars use it, they just need to drive about 5k miles with AP turned on to achieve 3 billion. Average driver drives about 12k miles a year. Don't see how 3 billion is an unrealistic number.
And I don't see why they would the lie about the number of miles driven. The 3 billion statistic came from a word of mouth by a Tesla employee on a live stream video instead of a press release. They don't release the number every year, so it's not like they're doing it for PR reasons.
Steve regretted his decision by saying on the record "But Tim's not a product person, per se"
The first thing Musk would have done as CEO is promptly kick Jony Ivie out the door. "Bad designs! Get into your stupid ostentatious Bentley and get outta here!"
You do realize that with Musk in charge we may literally still be waiting on the iPhone 10 right?
I have had multiples from both companies - of course more from Apple - and you wouldn't want that. Enjoy the slow progress with products that come out on time versus some questionable QC and products that are always late. Musk couldn't even start the Plaid event on time. He is an innovator that cannot execute on time and cannot speak well in the public. If Steve Jobs were alive he would either roast Musk continuously or would be a mentor and Tesla would be twice as good.
