Posted on 11/30/2022 8:56:52 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Good conversation. Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so.
Darn, I was really waiting on the Tesla phone.
Maybe Elon suggested THAT would happen...if they did not back off????...hahaha
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I swear on the lives of my grandchildren that I will not be the one to break the Peace.
Tim Cook is a liar. Apple did threaten to kick Twitter off its App Store.
He found out quickly millions would love to abandon Apple completely and were excited for any option Elon Musk could offer.
Apple can still go down in flames over this. Any tech company can lose to a company more innovative.
Tim Cook not only met with Musk but also with GOP leaders in Congress. He needed to make peace. Apple is having a major crisis in China. Cook cannot war with Musk, Congress and China at the same time.
RE: Apple can still go down in flames over this. Any tech company can lose to a company more innovative.
The two major Smartphone competitors outside of China are Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Android ( Microsoft’s Windows phone is crap ). A third major innovative competitor would definitely LOWER the price of smartphones even further.
RE: He needed to make peace. Apple is having a major crisis in China.
He’s gotta think of other major manufacturing sources. Depending on a country that can change its policies at the whim of ONE party is a recipe for disaster.
It’s not the Teslaphone they are worried about, it’s the Starlinkphone.
When you own a constellation of low-earth orbiting satellits designed to deliver internet access anywhere on the globe, you can be sure Musk can do things that Apple and Google can’t...and they do not want him as an enemy.
A few days ago he tweeted:
“”I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone,” he tweeted in response to a user asking what would happen if Apple and Google booted Twitter from their app stores. “
Tim Cook is not stupid.
Just to clarify, Android is a Google product, Samsung is their customer.
Woke-ism is not going to help Apple if Elon enters the phone market. Not to mention, Elon now has the megaphone of Twitter. He already started going after Apple on Twitter, making it awkward for Apple when he pointed out a few things.
Elon made cook an offer he could not refuse
I would buy Elon’s phone in a heartbeat and Timmy boy knew it..
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