that tweet doesn't say it's more than 5%. 5% could be enough to be annoying to the point where Elon wants to solve that. one bot can be spamming thousands of tweets.
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Elon Musk: 'We've Had Promising Conversations With Apple About Starlink Connectivity'
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Wrong. https://www.reuters.com/markets/dea...blower-claims-twitter-countersuit-2022-09-07/
when he intended to buy twitter, the price per share was less compared to now.
You'll need to point me to what In that article proves me wrong.
You don't seem to understand how buyouts work. He bought as much as he could before he had to disclose his > 5% position. He actually disclosed it when he was well past that, which is a securities violation but that's another matter. The actual price he agreed to pay for the reminder of the company was $54/share. At no time would he have been able to buy the entire company for the same price he bought his initial shares for - the shareholders wouldn't have agreed to his offer otherwise.
literally in the title "Musk can use whistleblower claims"
if he couldn't use it, judge would have denied it. the whistleblower said Twitter lied to Elon about bots to which would be a violation of customary closing conditions. read the agreement. i'm very much well aware of how buyouts work.
Relative to the terrestrial waste necessary to run wire, fiber, or even wireless coverage to most of these locations 14K micro satellites every five years and the fuel to put them in orbit is minimal. There are many cell towers in remote parts of the world that operate 24/7 on diesel generators that may only serve a few dozen people each.
what? you assume 1 bot sends one spam tweet and therefore bots can only make up 5% of all tweets? no. bots sends out hundreds of thousands of spammy tweets. 5% could absolutely cause chaos.
sounds like we're done here considering you're not contributing anything else. anyways, have a good one.
Yes, he can use the whistleblower's claims. None of the claims relate to bots and fake users, which is the basis for his backing out of the deal.
You don't seem to be aware how buyouts work because you thought Twitter's market price is the price he was buying the company at, which further confused you as to why I was making the claim the price dropped from his contractual purchase price.
If all you can do is take spoonfed info rather than search yourself then you're right, I guess we're done.
A very small mistake (both company names begin with a "T"), but:
"In fact, SpaceX and T-Mobile in August announced a partnership [...]"
I don't believe (though I could be mistaken) that Tesla has anything to do with the partnership.
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So?
Starlink still requires a dish pointed roughly at it and for sure much more power than a smartphone could offer if you want some battery live.
For what it is supposed to do the current solution is good enough and Starlink wouldn‘t be good enough to offer much more.
Tesla, SpaceX, Gigafactories, Starlink... yeah, what a fraud. Starlink, by the way, has had documented and definite benefit in the war in Ukraine, giving the Ukrainians connectivity when sometimes the Russians themselves did not. I have owned Apple gear since my first PowerBook 100 and I love the company but... what has Apple done that compares to actually helping a country defend its people's LIVES against invasion?? Apple withdrew their business from Russia—and good for them—but it's not like that was a critical slice of their pie. (A bunch of other companies did it too, and Apple won't be able to do anything similar if China tries the same thing with Taiwan) Musk needled Apple a few times; get over it. So has Microsoft. It's business. Grow a hide. Amazing how just because people need to pick their one flag and defend it to the exclusion of all else, so Apple people feel compelled to piss on Elon Musk, who is, by any rational estimate, a genuine genius. I say this as someone who doesn't own any Tesla stock and doesn't drive a Tesla. He has completely up-ended both electric cars and spaceflight. His batteries have created virtual power stations that are extremely helpful. And Starlink has its detractors, but it's an extraordinary project bringing internet connectivity where it was never available before. You can say he's an ******* and you might have a point. I'd remind you, though, that people said the same thing about Steve Jobs, thinking that they somehow minimized his greatness in pointing out that he could be abrasive and combative. But what of it? Some people, that's simply the atmospheric effects caused by the friction of their movement through the world. You might not like the sparks or the fog or whatever, but don't sneer the object at the center of that vortex.
Typical Musk hater not knowing what he’s talking about, and that this feature was being planted with Starlink well before the iPhone 14 launch. Learn a bit more about the topic first before being so spiteful
Steve Jobs was both a visionary and a smart guy.
Elon Musk is a visionary and has a lot of money to pay for smart people. The world is benefiting tremendously from what his various companies are creating. But how involved is he in actually solving problems?
I hope that Apple launches its own satellite network (responsibly!) that directly competes with Starlink.
Elon Musk is a visionary and has a lot of money to pay for smart people. The world is benefiting tremendously from what his various companies are creating. But how involved is he in actually solving problems?
I hope that Apple launches its own satellite network (responsibly!) that directly competes with Starlink.
I’m assuming all the Cellular, WiFi and Bluetooth turn off when in SAT mode.
And what’s the power draw and heat generated in SAT mode? It’ll say don’t hold it near your head. Probably limited to once every few minutes.
One of the reasons for the iPhone absolutely needing line-of-sight is that it can generate a weaker signal that has no obstructions. It just takes longer to reach the satellite and be relayed.
going to be a bad day for you when you have no choice but to use something that elon was involved in.
i'm sure they gladly talk about their clients so openly like that. especially high volume clients.
he is chief engineer at spacex.Steve Jobs was both a visionary and a smart guy.
Elon Musk is a visionary and has a lot of money to pay for smart people. The world is benefiting tremendously from what his various companies are creating. But how involved is he in actually solving problems?
I hope that Apple launches its own satellite network (responsibly!) that directly competes with Starlink.
The thing with Musk is that he’s a conman who gets things done.
That’s such an unusual combination that it totally messes with people and makes them pick one or the other category.
And yet, he’s clearly both.
except there's not really anything to back up that he's a conman. there are first hand stories of elon being on the assembly floor with his workers. plenty of first hand stories of spacex engineers working with elon to figure problems out. even John Carmack from id software has never been paid by Elon but has first hand experience of Elon getting into the weeds of engineering rockets.
No need for Apple to get involved in Starlink since there is nothing for them to do to integrate. Maybe in the future Starlink could host specialized antennas for iPhones as the technology scales. With the size of the constellation, there really are no other competitors. I'm sure Apple realizes this and is talking the future with SpaceX privately.