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Elon Musk Wants Apple to Lower Fees for 'X' Creators
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I'm not engaging you on this point. I know what he is, and what he is not, and you very obviously, do not, and would rather farm internet points in an echo chamber.
Elon holds a very loud megaphone at X. Tim Cook has a history of fast tracking communication with Elon based on the potential for bad PR. I believe Elon will be successful in this negotiation.
Since you’ve been challenged on this it seems like you might want to actually back the statement up with some countering facts. Is the statement you responded to factually incorrect?
While I take your point about sports, team sports have been part of the human experience for...ever. Like politics, I think sports in the current era has become more tribal. I've never been into watching sports or rooting for a team, but I don't think sports is to blame. I lay the blame nearly 100% at the feet of social media companies whose algorithms create silos and echo chambers and an addictive relationship with the constant firehouse of content. Look at when civility really fell off a cliff. Not long after the masses got hooked on social media.
Maybe, but I doubt that’s why. The determining factor is more likely to be money, not some “special relationship” these two egregious billionaires may or may not have.
Civility fell off the cliff on the very day that AOL opened their portal to the internet at large.
Lol. Those days seem positively quaint by today's standards!
Hey may want to revisit the Car Play situation in Tesla before demanding what others will do on their platform.
Yes and there’s other things I never thought about until recently, the pressure, the gravity, until we can artificially recreate those things on another planet I think it’s a pipe dream.
I’d love to be proven wrong, and I’ll put my money where my mouth is, the day Elon gets a human back from Mars alive 🚀 I’ll take all his fans here out to dinner at Wendy’s. I wonder which version of the iPhone I’ll be on when that happens? 🤨
Elon Musk Wants Apple to Lower Fees for 'X' Creators
and I want a cheaper Cyber Truck.
How said. I gave you ridiculously simple basic concepts that are so easy to see are true. You want to believe. I’ll tell you what. Next time Trump wanna-be Musk says FULL SELF DRIVING will be ready by such and date, write that date on the wall. When it passes by, wait for the date he’d be surprised to miss. And just keep doing that.
wait for Musk to successfully land a Starship sized rocket with 42 engines and then take off again. The rocket will not even be to stand straight up. 5000 metric tons and 42 engines will blow a crater into the soil.
how long did it take to land a rover on mars? Seriously, next time talk to some Ph.D on some show, pose the question and ask how long it will take.
Musk is just pumping the value of SpaceX. Don’t take my word for it. Just ask anyone some basic questions. Don’t hide your head in the sand.
Colonizing Mars is a pretty dumb idea. It makes for great sci-fi, but it's wildly unrealistic. I used to believe that humans would one day travel the stars, but I think it's much more likely that we'll download into the machine in order to save ourselves. Making Mars remotely habitable is a pipe dream. Finding, much less reaching, another planet capable of supporting our kind of life is also pure fantasy. The resource requirements are mind-boggling. The science/technology don't exist. Escaping into a virtual world is far more realistic.
You are not real James Holden then. You were supposed to be Rocinante's captain ...
Lol. The Expanse is probably the most realistic vision of what might be possible on Mars in the absolute best case scenario many hundreds of years from now.
Hasn't it pretty much been confirmed that all of the hyperloop "hype" was about derailing the California highspeed rail system and/or curtailing highspeed rail adoption throughout the US? (In the interest of selling more Tesla's)
It will a lot of energy to keep it pressurized. Neither cheap, nor easy. Will never happen.
And not so anonymous if you think about it. It’s just that (outside certain countries) your internet activity is not tied to you personally on government ID level every moment, just yet.
Even playing fields On competing who’s the worst offender to offend other people.
By 2050 world conflict would end us long before dreaming about traveling to Mars. Remember, there has been so many satellites (including decommissioned ones) and countless debris orbiting around us it is increasingly dangerous to avoid all of them before leaving the earth orbit and travel to Mars. Any debris can destroy a fully functional spacecraft in one hit, creating even more debris. Good luck trying to figure out everything by then.
The OP was talking specifically about Elon and X/Twitter. I am fully aware literally every service with an app would benefit from changes to the fee structure, but that's not really what this is about: Twitter's creator programme was supposed to be an ad revenue share, but Elon ruined their ad revenues. Now he's scrambling to find another way to make good on his promise to his troll army before they join the sane people who already left.
Honestly though, as a consumer I prefer having a single place to manage my subscriptions, but logically, adding another middleman (Apple) on top of the service itself (e.g. Patreon) is a _really_ ineffective way to support those creators, whether Apple's fees were 1% or 30%, it is much smarter to go via Patreon direct.
No, it’s like you buying an iPad or iPhone at WalMart, and then not expecting WalMart to get a cut of every purchase you make on the device.
Or, if you buy a PS5 at WalMart and you purchase a digital game on the PS5. Should WalMart get a cut of that? No, they are not involved in that transaction.
Yes. There were several exposés about this. Musk bought a second hand boring machine and invented a BS narrative around it with the ulterior motive of stifling investments in interurban public transit.
Wont matter to Apple. 10% or nothing is the same as 30% of nothing which is what Twitter or X will become soon after the year of rubbish Musk has done. Surely by now it's only lazy legacy users hanging in there. Advertisers have voted and moved their dollars.
On the macro level it’s like you go to Walmart and make things that they then sell and don’t give you squat for. That’s what’s happening to the vast majority of members of every social media network. People working for free making product that the social media companies sell and make billions of dollar on.