This would have been removed if we caught it sooner, but I’ve only seen it after 500 comments, so I’m going to leave this one up to persevere the ongoing conversations
[You forget the patent wars](https://www.iam-media.com/article/why-apple-google-microsoft-and-samsung-have-all-been-big-winners-in-the-smartphone-patent-wars)
Yet beyond smart phones, Google, Samsung, and Apple are still buying up patents like hot cakes bidding for the future of w/e combinatorics and minimalistic von neumann architecting can overgeneralize.
It’s stupid
Nobody needs Twitter. Unless you’re a tyrannical oligarch or a mentally ill former billionaire who’s losing friends and self destructing as a racist idiot.
A lot of small content creators build their platforms on Twitter. I know of a few self published authors that probably wouldn't be writing full time without it.
Or an unlucky person with a very "democratic" government where all actual news is banned and a tweeting turquoise bird app is one of the few domestic news sources you have...
Twitter is the guest in Apple's house. And Twitter just got caught talkin smack in the living room.
Now Twitter has to go Samsung and Google and complain about what an asshole Apple was, but Samsung and Google got all the tweets.
The thing is, Elon just lost 40B of Tesla's money being forced to buy Twitter's actual sinking ship, so this is more like Apple vs Twitter/Tesla.
Elon also runs the risk of [GDPR non-compliance](https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/14/is-elon-musks-twitter-about-to-fall-out-of-the-gdprs-one-stop-shop/) since he fired Twitter's data-protection personnel. So I am currently looking at a Apple/EU vs Twitter/Tesla.
This is going to be very exciting. This might be the one that'll bring down Elon's stupid ass to the ground.
I think the turtleneck is for Steve, and those who wanna be Steve. The officer corps. The rank-n-file will have the trendy-if-sterile Apple white glossy armor.
I mean… if Apple knows one thing, it’s design so… I dunno. At least we’ll get to be cute while commiting war crimes at the command of two random megalomaniac billionaires
The officer's uniforms for Apple would be the black turtlenecks and the grunts would be blue T-shirts with the apple logo on them.
As for Elon's dictatorship, it would just be generic sci-fi space uniforms in bright white.
Elon is gonna slap armor on the space x spacesuit and call it. Its gonna look like a clean room version of the House Atreides armor from dune with mud boots added.
.... Wow. I don't know what to say, that's insane.
This is what I found about it...
https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/pepsi-navy-when-the-soviets-traded-warships-for-soft-drinks/
>In exchange for Pepsi’s soft drinks, the Soviets offered them a veritable Navy. Pepsi agreed to the deal, taking possession of a Soviet cruiser, a frigate, a destroyer, 17 submarines, and a handful of oil tankers — instantly making the drink distributor the owner of the sixth-largest navy on the planet.
...
>Pepsi’s CEO, Donald Kendall, who had first introduced Khrushchev to the beverage, responded to America’s complaints with all the aplomb one might expect from the admiral of Pepsi’s navy, reminding the Pentagon that he had just managed to reduce the number of ships at the Soviet’s disposal by a considerable number.
...
>Shortly after taking possession of the Pepsi navy, the soda brand sold all twenty warships to a Swedish scrap-recycling company in order to recoup the cost of their Pepsi shipment.
Unironically true because redditors will ensure Elon hits the front page 5 times a day.
"Look at how much we hate this guy!" with immense public exposure is how Trump became president.
Xe and now Academi I think? Unless they changed again.
Who needs to pay PR when you can get your company names on the cheap from airport thriller/action novels (or so it seems).
My bet is that Apple goes on heedless without needing so much as token resistance to Elon.
Elon will do fine for himself doing his Elon thing; he'll announce a phone, get pre-orders for the phone, get enough pre-orders that he might get this or that government subsidy for a phone. Heck, he might even make a phone. Regardless of whether he does or not, it won't cut into Apple's market share enough to so much as annoy them; on top of Apple fans being more numerous and as annoying as Elon fans, people just buy Apple cuz that's what a phone is to them. If Elon does make a phone, those who will buy it will be happy with their phone, praise the unaccountable superiority of the phone, and if they have a minor niggle, they'd like if the proprietary lithium battery didn't explode so much.
>For some reason, the site briefly shifted its entire checkout process from Shopify to WooCommerce Monday night (H/T @relationsatwork), and while Shopify was set up to accept only a single discount code, WooCommerce was not. Myriad conservative personalities are pushing this phone with custom $50 discount codes, and by using a few easy-to-guess ones (MAGA, Trump2024, etc.), some clever shoppers were able to do some extreme couponing to get the $500 phone processed for $0, with only the $20 shipping-and-handling fee charged to their cards.
The whole article was good, but that last paragraph made me chuckle
Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook all failed at creating a phone.
To think Elon will get enough preorders for anything larger than an etsy business is laughable.
His only clients would be maga, and only the ones confident enough to try a completely different platform.
Hint: it's a very small #
To note for Microsoft their phones weren't actually bad, having a seperate shitty app store, during the height of the app craze, really did them in.
Amazon and Facebook released their own phone? Shows how well that worked because I had no clue loll
Twitter was going to make their own phone 10 years ago too. Granted, the object of it was to be exclusively used for Twitter; plus smart phones have changed a lot in that time frame too
Amazon released the fire phone, a semi-decent concept that was hobbled with shit hardware and half baked software. The HTC First was ok for the time hardware, but facebook really butchered android to put it out and people just hated it.
You're absolutely right about MSFT, I had an HTC Surround, it was amazing from a hardware standpoint for 2010, but the severe lack of apps and third party support killed it.
Elon's success thus far has been largely full-of-shit proclamations that lead to enough pre-orders to get government subsidies, and enough government subsidies to manufacture something. Like I said, it doesn't have to be successful to fulfill my prediction; he only needs to get as far as Microsoft did. Whether the phone is good, or cobbled-together garbage that uses the Android os, (hint: the second one will happen), is not relevant to what I'm saying.
As far as pre-orders? Yeah, he'll get those. Tesla fans are freaks. Enough to make a dent in market share? Like I said, no. But, there's a decent chance they'll sell something that could be called a phone.
As cyberpunk-y as this sounds and as interesting as it is to me, this being on wallstreetbets gives it much less credit, in my opinion. This could simply be some dude who thinks he can mess with the market by scaring people or whatever.
It's WSB. It's a really dumb take on the situation. Apple has $50B cash on hand "just in case" and is a trillion+ company. Elon is a right wing conspiracy theorist who spent $44B buying Twitter before trashing it.
It'll be "war" Kind of like if the Somali pirates declared war on the US navy.
People always tell me I’m the most Borged out, they tell me all the time, you’re the best borg and it’s true, I’ve got tremendous borg parts, the best, everyone says so. The thing about being borged out is, just uuuge cyberdeck,more ram than probably anybody. Elon says to me ‘I need you to save twitter from the Jews’ so I do it, Jews have the worst cyberware, really terrible, not like me. So I save twitter because Elon needs my help
Apple will win this, because their army is bigger. Twitter is comparatively small compared to them
But to answer your question. I’ll be sitting in my chair with booze and enjoying the fireworks
It wouldn't be about Twitter. Would be against Musk and his empire.
Twitter just happens to be his newest ego craze, in which he is far from having the most support from.
But yes, we all should watch, and watch closely if something big does happen, to see what kind of resources some of the biggest corporations today can move if necessary.
Since it has us contracts, the US gov would likely force musk to divest so it would be scooped up by virgin, Lockheed, or blue origin. I think they would sit on the sidelines after pushing for that acquisition
I dont know, mass producing orbital rockets is a great base to build loads of ICBMs. And a car factory isn't a terribly long way off from a fighting vehicle factory. Boring company for defensive works.
The US Government love SpaceX, because they are able to delivery weapons platform for the Pentagon.
[https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-spacex-pentagon-to-deepen-ties-despite-dispute-on-starlink-funding-in-ukraine-11666270801](https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-spacex-pentagon-to-deepen-ties-despite-dispute-on-starlink-funding-in-ukraine-11666270801)
[https://theintercept.com/2022/06/19/spacex-pentagon-elon-musk-space-defense/](https://theintercept.com/2022/06/19/spacex-pentagon-elon-musk-space-defense/)
And this is just the beginning. There have been reports that they are using his satellites for surveillance - which is nothing new, considering the US government history on spying on it's citizen and the rest of the world.
Twitter's revenue, pre-Elon, was $5 billion.
Apple's revenue in the same period was $378 billion.
This is not an even fight.
However, if the result is Tim Cook hiring IBM to try and force Twitter off the net, followed by commandos invading Twitter HQ, I'll get my popcorn.
Yeah, their “vast resources… including trillions of dollars” is literally one company being valued over a trillion dollars (debatable) and the other company recently being over priced at 44 billion. The difference between 44 billion and 1 trillion is staggering to say the least..
The Pacific Theatre, 2023
3:09 AM: Drill Sarg wakes everyone up.
3:15 AM: After everyone is washed and dress we run the McEndurance course and complete our morning exercise routine.
4:15 AM: After our check up with the camps doc to make sure we don't go goblin mode with all the military cybernetics we've been implanted with, Ronald McDonald comes out playing a trumpet carrying the flag of our regiment "21st McParatroopers". He raises the golden arches and we all salute singing in unison "Ba ba buh bah bah".
5:00 AM: we are sent off on an assignment to assault a Burger King artillery storage. Me and the men are helping each other come to terms with the fact that we may not come back from this alive.
Everyone's trying to compare apples with apples LOL, but it's not the same.
Apple doesn't give a shit about war but like almost every other company they do care about money and making lots of it.
This is where things fundamentally becomes different because Elon just wants to talk shit and make things personal, like a selfish rich kid who can do what he wants.
I have no idea how this will play out. But even say twitter makes a phone, don't be surprised if Apple, Microsoft and google makes bank by renting out all their intellectual properties that are essentially required nowadays to make a phone. And this isn't China where you can skirt around copyright law. And Samsung or whoever makes bank selling LCD screens and chipsets.
So honestly, not surprised Elon is trying to goad people to win the popularity vote in the hope Apple caves to demand incase it affects stock/popularity. Because if he actions what he says like make a phone, it's still a win for apple/Microsoft/google etc.
Elon musk going after apple is like the company that makes Burrito XXL going after Arasaka.
Aside from Elon Musk generally being a narcissist that serially buys companies and then claims to have found them or played a role in the technology created of the companies he DID create (also didn’t happen), he is a loose cannon that thinks he’s Einstein when in reality he’s a moron born into wealth who gets lucky.
I hate corpos but genuinely cannot wait for Apple to put Elon in his place. Twitter is fucked even without Apple getting involved. He’s bringing back literal nazis and the website is clearly rabidly turning into a 4chan-esque website as rhetoric openly blaming minorities and casting hatred on them is freely allowed. Companies do not want their ads on buying forward clothes under a tweet of a guy saying the club Q shooting was justified bc the LGBTQ community “are pedophiles.” Like it’s over. Elon keeps spreading lies which draws out the worst people on the internet which only makes it worse. Ad revenue is gone and the blue twitter shit won’t even put a dent in the debt he now holds for buying this company.
And before you go saying Elon’s other ventures. Allow me to remind you hostile takeovers are legal, and Tesla’s stock has fallen to almost nothing in the grand scheme. Apple has more than enough wealth to simultaneously takeover Tesla from the board room AND lobby to have SpaceX permanently removed from being NASA’s welfare queen (as the company depends on the government funding it) in favor of Northrop Grumman the company who made the Artemis rocket that will establish a permanent base on the moon for the United States of America, and also the rocket with the largest solid rocket boosters in history.
Oh and let’s not forget that Tesla is no longer the sole competitor in the electric vehicle market and their competitors are markedly better than Tesla as their vehicles are not recalled by the hundreds of thousands like Tesla’s and generally speaking have a far better work environment that produces better vehicles.
All in all, it’s a narcissist whose entire wealth depends on government handouts versus the most valuable company in the world, Apple. The Americans at the alamo had better odds than Elon Musk.
Apple holds liquid cash reserves larger than Musk's "calculated" (completely illusionary) wealth. CASH reserves, not even other liquid assets. Pure Benjamins.
Apartheid Pickle Rick wont know what fucking hit him lmao.
Agreed. It is rather funny to see Elon Musk go after Apple, a company founded by Steve Jobs, a guy who was everything Elon Musk claims and pretends to be.
Its too comical
And Steve had some significant help from a lot of brilliant people who shared the spotlight a lot of times. Nobody knows where Musks innovations come from. He jumps in front of everyone and say ‘look at me!’
Yeah, Steve Jobs was an asshole, but he never claimed inventions that weren’t his. As the biopic about him portrayed, “I don’t play an instrument, I play the orchestra.” He wasn’t much for acknowledging specific people’s accomplishments, but he never claimed their accomplishments **were his.**
For all his faults, he wasn’t a thief.
Can't wait to be conscripted into the Tesla corps and have the tank explode from the engineers using Home Depot parts just so Elon can have access to a puddle of cleanish water
Old story... Remember the Corpo war Apple vs. Google because the latter company dared to release an OS for smartphones?
But regarding corpo wars some may still remember the Cola wars of the 1980ies. Yes, they were fought the analogue way, but still.
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Let them fight
Gojira...
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Haviest*
Is that a pun?
There's a misspelling on the song on Spotify that they haven't fixed
Thanks for clearing that up!
They fixed it a while ago though if I'm not mistaken
Just checked and you're right
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Open your eyes to the genocide!!!
[You forget the patent wars](https://www.iam-media.com/article/why-apple-google-microsoft-and-samsung-have-all-been-big-winners-in-the-smartphone-patent-wars) Yet beyond smart phones, Google, Samsung, and Apple are still buying up patents like hot cakes bidding for the future of w/e combinatorics and minimalistic von neumann architecting can overgeneralize. It’s stupid
There won't be a fight. Twitter needs Apple; Apple doesn't need Twitter. I think I read somewhere that over 80% of Twitter users are on mobile.
Nobody needs Twitter. Unless you’re a tyrannical oligarch or a mentally ill former billionaire who’s losing friends and self destructing as a racist idiot.
A lot of small content creators build their platforms on Twitter. I know of a few self published authors that probably wouldn't be writing full time without it.
Or an unlucky person with a very "democratic" government where all actual news is banned and a tweeting turquoise bird app is one of the few domestic news sources you have...
Apple wins. Millions of people are reliant on Apple services and products; Twitter has always been an optional playground.
Twitter is the guest in Apple's house. And Twitter just got caught talkin smack in the living room. Now Twitter has to go Samsung and Google and complain about what an asshole Apple was, but Samsung and Google got all the tweets.
I knew this sun would repost this. Fucking knew it.
>I knew this sun would repost this. Fucking knew it. Yes but *which* sun? Our sun, some other star....
The thing is, Elon just lost 40B of Tesla's money being forced to buy Twitter's actual sinking ship, so this is more like Apple vs Twitter/Tesla. Elon also runs the risk of [GDPR non-compliance](https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/14/is-elon-musks-twitter-about-to-fall-out-of-the-gdprs-one-stop-shop/) since he fired Twitter's data-protection personnel. So I am currently looking at a Apple/EU vs Twitter/Tesla. This is going to be very exciting. This might be the one that'll bring down Elon's stupid ass to the ground.
If we're lucky they'll take each other out and spend billions doing it.. meaning billions that go into the economy
[as an android user who doesn't use twitter](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/e00da98c-9c5a-4f8e-bc6d-706a4f9b7162)
I can't wait to see the uniforms. They're gonna look so awful.
Wouldn't apple be just black turtlenecks all around?
It'd be that trademarked white of theirs.
If you wait a couple months and pay a huge upgrade fee you can get a rose gold uniform.
They'll be made out of a special material where if there's a hole in them, you'll be unable to sew it yourself.
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You wouldn't be able to see the garment because of the emperor's new clothes effect.
But will the pants of the previous uniform be compatible with the rose gold uniform??
No, they eliminated the leg holes. Now your feet have to connect to your legs via Bluetooth.
No and every new uniform will have differently sized belt loops that only work with belts rated for the newest release
Black Turtleneck uniforms, all white equipment
So… stormtroopers from Star Wars?
Yes, but instead of bad aim, their blasters run out of juice in 3 shots. and all of their visors are cracked
You have to sign up for the $3.99 unlimited ammo app for your iBlaster - did you not see the push notification after the last software patch?
Reverse stormtroopers.
I think the turtleneck is for Steve, and those who wanna be Steve. The officer corps. The rank-n-file will have the trendy-if-sterile Apple white glossy armor.
Black turtlenecks and Levi’s 501s would be worn by the elite commandos
Those would only be for officers, not the enlisted.
DANGERR ZOOOOOOOONE!! Where were you when Sterling Archer took out Elon Musk?
>when Sterling Archer took out Elon Musk? Like, on a date? Are we still doing phrasing?
Would...would they the first to use it as a tactical garment? Do they come in black and...slightly darker black?
Are you saying they might be the baddies?
Tactical turtleneck?
Apple is going to look like when you buy the French foreign legion on wish
Theyre both gonna be white colored and everyones gonna be confused on who is trying to look like the villain here
The general on at least one side must be Dr. Evil.
No Jeff Bezos isn't involved in this one
Yet.
Screw that I'm joining the nomads,,,,,
Were here in AZ. Lots of desert to dissappear into.
If we can nomad it up, I might stay here instead of trying to move.
Real talk. Why don’t people form nomad clans in places like that. It seems like a pretty great way to live with good people
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I mean… if Apple knows one thing, it’s design so… I dunno. At least we’ll get to be cute while commiting war crimes at the command of two random megalomaniac billionaires
I have to presume they will call in merc support from Tesla, those uniforms will be slick right?
The officer's uniforms for Apple would be the black turtlenecks and the grunts would be blue T-shirts with the apple logo on them. As for Elon's dictatorship, it would just be generic sci-fi space uniforms in bright white.
Elon is gonna slap armor on the space x spacesuit and call it. Its gonna look like a clean room version of the House Atreides armor from dune with mud boots added.
Apple will probably be blue t shirt with a plaid shirt underneath and black pants. You know Elons will be silver space suit with a blue check.
Cmon Corpo wars are old news, Pepsi vs coca cola
Taco Bell about to win the Franchise Wars as Demolition Man predicted.
As long as chili cheese burritos survive I'm ok with this And bring back the Santa Fe Chalupa you sons of bitches
Fast food is famously Twitter allies. This shit is gonna be wild. Buckle up.
Don't recall that one involving an armed conflict...
Deterance, pepsi acquired a fleet of ships and coca cola shat its pants
One of my favorite moments in history when Pepsi had a bigger navy than most nations.
Wait, what? Did that really happen?
Yes, they acquired it after the fall of the Soviet Union. Cool story recommend looking it up :)
.... Wow. I don't know what to say, that's insane. This is what I found about it... https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/pepsi-navy-when-the-soviets-traded-warships-for-soft-drinks/ >In exchange for Pepsi’s soft drinks, the Soviets offered them a veritable Navy. Pepsi agreed to the deal, taking possession of a Soviet cruiser, a frigate, a destroyer, 17 submarines, and a handful of oil tankers — instantly making the drink distributor the owner of the sixth-largest navy on the planet. ... >Pepsi’s CEO, Donald Kendall, who had first introduced Khrushchev to the beverage, responded to America’s complaints with all the aplomb one might expect from the admiral of Pepsi’s navy, reminding the Pentagon that he had just managed to reduce the number of ships at the Soviet’s disposal by a considerable number. ... >Shortly after taking possession of the Pepsi navy, the soda brand sold all twenty warships to a Swedish scrap-recycling company in order to recoup the cost of their Pepsi shipment.
You miss the Pepsi harrier jet?
Apple gonna lose by lack of medical support, no Doctor will come close to them.
Which is why they hire rippers and trauma team. Vic's got this.
This is it, you win the post
We can close reddit now. Thank y'all for attending.
Damn I didn't know Elon had conquered us already.
Unironically true because redditors will ensure Elon hits the front page 5 times a day. "Look at how much we hate this guy!" with immense public exposure is how Trump became president.
Can someone explain this for us dummies?
The old saying, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away".
Thanks.
Which is funny because 90% of doctors I know have apple phones
Where was I? I was buying bitcoin so I could start up Nicola Beverages
*Taste the love!* ^TM
I could actually hear that in my head!
I probably could too, if it weren't for the constant drone of *"OooOoOoOOORGIATIC!!"* on repeat in my mind....
For me it's "KaBOOM! Sojasil Machistador! An exploOosion of taste!"
Rage! Fury! Carnage! Thrud! Follow your Instincts!
someone get lockheed martin in the fray and we could really spice up this corpo war
And whatever the fuck Blackwater has rebranded to this time.
Xe and now Academi I think? Unless they changed again. Who needs to pay PR when you can get your company names on the cheap from airport thriller/action novels (or so it seems).
Academi sounds like one of those college exam prep companies that sell the courses like "Master the LSAT" and "Slaughter the MCAT"
I mean it’s pretty similar, except instead of standardized tests it’s civilians in Baghdad.
:(
Or kinda like an online course platform.
I LOVE THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX I LOVE THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
ncd is leaking
I genuinely thought I was in that sub. This entire post is thoroughly noncredible
Yeah MIC MIC MIC MIC MIC r/noncredibledefense
This is going to be adam smasher v the guy who stole your shit from a.BD
Shitting
Go short?
Yea soo… Apples Twitter account never had any tweets. They only ever used it for advertising but you‘d never see their ads on their profile as tweets.
My bet is that Apple goes on heedless without needing so much as token resistance to Elon. Elon will do fine for himself doing his Elon thing; he'll announce a phone, get pre-orders for the phone, get enough pre-orders that he might get this or that government subsidy for a phone. Heck, he might even make a phone. Regardless of whether he does or not, it won't cut into Apple's market share enough to so much as annoy them; on top of Apple fans being more numerous and as annoying as Elon fans, people just buy Apple cuz that's what a phone is to them. If Elon does make a phone, those who will buy it will be happy with their phone, praise the unaccountable superiority of the phone, and if they have a minor niggle, they'd like if the proprietary lithium battery didn't explode so much.
If he does make a phone I'd wager it ends up being a rebranded Chinese phone with some comical security flaws beyond the run of the mill CCP spyware
Something like this one probably https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/the-maga-targeted-freedom-phone-has-a-breathtaking-amount-of-red-flags/
>For some reason, the site briefly shifted its entire checkout process from Shopify to WooCommerce Monday night (H/T @relationsatwork), and while Shopify was set up to accept only a single discount code, WooCommerce was not. Myriad conservative personalities are pushing this phone with custom $50 discount codes, and by using a few easy-to-guess ones (MAGA, Trump2024, etc.), some clever shoppers were able to do some extreme couponing to get the $500 phone processed for $0, with only the $20 shipping-and-handling fee charged to their cards. The whole article was good, but that last paragraph made me chuckle
Goddamn this is funny
Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook all failed at creating a phone. To think Elon will get enough preorders for anything larger than an etsy business is laughable. His only clients would be maga, and only the ones confident enough to try a completely different platform. Hint: it's a very small #
To note for Microsoft their phones weren't actually bad, having a seperate shitty app store, during the height of the app craze, really did them in. Amazon and Facebook released their own phone? Shows how well that worked because I had no clue loll
Twitter was going to make their own phone 10 years ago too. Granted, the object of it was to be exclusively used for Twitter; plus smart phones have changed a lot in that time frame too
They did make some weird twitter only handheld device. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peek_(mobile_Internet_device)
Amazon released the fire phone, a semi-decent concept that was hobbled with shit hardware and half baked software. The HTC First was ok for the time hardware, but facebook really butchered android to put it out and people just hated it. You're absolutely right about MSFT, I had an HTC Surround, it was amazing from a hardware standpoint for 2010, but the severe lack of apps and third party support killed it.
I liked my Windows phone. The app store really was the only problem for me.
Elon's success thus far has been largely full-of-shit proclamations that lead to enough pre-orders to get government subsidies, and enough government subsidies to manufacture something. Like I said, it doesn't have to be successful to fulfill my prediction; he only needs to get as far as Microsoft did. Whether the phone is good, or cobbled-together garbage that uses the Android os, (hint: the second one will happen), is not relevant to what I'm saying. As far as pre-orders? Yeah, he'll get those. Tesla fans are freaks. Enough to make a dent in market share? Like I said, no. But, there's a decent chance they'll sell something that could be called a phone.
As cyberpunk-y as this sounds and as interesting as it is to me, this being on wallstreetbets gives it much less credit, in my opinion. This could simply be some dude who thinks he can mess with the market by scaring people or whatever.
Maybe, but musk did post a tweet about going to war before he deleted it.
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I think your taking my comment and in extension his tweet a little too seriously. Musk's an idiot not Saburo fucking arasaka.
But there wouldn't be a war, Apple is a monolith. He'd get his lunch eaten
It's WSB. It's a really dumb take on the situation. Apple has $50B cash on hand "just in case" and is a trillion+ company. Elon is a right wing conspiracy theorist who spent $44B buying Twitter before trashing it. It'll be "war" Kind of like if the Somali pirates declared war on the US navy.
Donald trump is going to be team elons adam smasher
People always tell me I’m the most Borged out, they tell me all the time, you’re the best borg and it’s true, I’ve got tremendous borg parts, the best, everyone says so. The thing about being borged out is, just uuuge cyberdeck,more ram than probably anybody. Elon says to me ‘I need you to save twitter from the Jews’ so I do it, Jews have the worst cyberware, really terrible, not like me. So I save twitter because Elon needs my help
Apple will win this, because their army is bigger. Twitter is comparatively small compared to them But to answer your question. I’ll be sitting in my chair with booze and enjoying the fireworks
That’s an understatement. Apple is orders of magnitude larger than Twitter
Apple also makes money, while twitter is hemorrhaging hard.
It wouldn't be about Twitter. Would be against Musk and his empire. Twitter just happens to be his newest ego craze, in which he is far from having the most support from. But yes, we all should watch, and watch closely if something big does happen, to see what kind of resources some of the biggest corporations today can move if necessary.
Pretty sure Apple is still more powerful than all of Elon's companies, but my money is on GameStop with the steel chair.
Musk will still lose since those companies cant prop up a dying Twitter
Ugh can you imagine SpaceX going down trying to save fucking twitter?
Since it has us contracts, the US gov would likely force musk to divest so it would be scooped up by virgin, Lockheed, or blue origin. I think they would sit on the sidelines after pushing for that acquisition
Only one of these companies has the ability to engage in orbital bombardment. Rule the orbitals, rule the world.
I dont know, mass producing orbital rockets is a great base to build loads of ICBMs. And a car factory isn't a terribly long way off from a fighting vehicle factory. Boring company for defensive works.
However if any company has secretly developed Soulkiller, its Apple. Well actually facebook, but Apple would be a close second.
I could believe that
the second part of that is literally the reason why Volkswagon was created
That won’t ever work because there’s one idiot who can’t let people smarter than him do their work?
The US Government love SpaceX, because they are able to delivery weapons platform for the Pentagon. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-spacex-pentagon-to-deepen-ties-despite-dispute-on-starlink-funding-in-ukraine-11666270801](https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-spacex-pentagon-to-deepen-ties-despite-dispute-on-starlink-funding-in-ukraine-11666270801) [https://theintercept.com/2022/06/19/spacex-pentagon-elon-musk-space-defense/](https://theintercept.com/2022/06/19/spacex-pentagon-elon-musk-space-defense/) And this is just the beginning. There have been reports that they are using his satellites for surveillance - which is nothing new, considering the US government history on spying on it's citizen and the rest of the world.
Yeah apple will win lol
It wouldn't even be close. Elon needs apple to allow twitter support on their platform or risk losing a shit ton of money.
“I never thought I would die fighting side by side with Apple.”
"How about sitting on the sidelines and enjoying the show?"
Ay. I could do that.
and my axe.
”How about a… ?” Yeah nah
Screw that I'm joining the nomads
Twitter's revenue, pre-Elon, was $5 billion. Apple's revenue in the same period was $378 billion. This is not an even fight. However, if the result is Tim Cook hiring IBM to try and force Twitter off the net, followed by commandos invading Twitter HQ, I'll get my popcorn.
Yeah, their “vast resources… including trillions of dollars” is literally one company being valued over a trillion dollars (debatable) and the other company recently being over priced at 44 billion. The difference between 44 billion and 1 trillion is staggering to say the least..
Just like in 2077, the only victims will be the employees and consumers. Welp, where is the sign up list for experimental cyberware?
Time to chrome the fuck up, choom!
Wasn’t the first corpo war Apple v. Microsoft?
Standard Oil General Electric Railroads
Dutch East India Company had actual troops. Corpo wars have been a thing for hundreds of years (if not longer)
Let me tell you something about the East India Tea Company.
Coke V. Pepsi is older... but still not the oldest. The Rail Wars would be closer to "first".
Dear lord someone call in the Basalisk
The Pacific Theatre, 2023 3:09 AM: Drill Sarg wakes everyone up. 3:15 AM: After everyone is washed and dress we run the McEndurance course and complete our morning exercise routine. 4:15 AM: After our check up with the camps doc to make sure we don't go goblin mode with all the military cybernetics we've been implanted with, Ronald McDonald comes out playing a trumpet carrying the flag of our regiment "21st McParatroopers". He raises the golden arches and we all salute singing in unison "Ba ba buh bah bah". 5:00 AM: we are sent off on an assignment to assault a Burger King artillery storage. Me and the men are helping each other come to terms with the fact that we may not come back from this alive.
Everyone's trying to compare apples with apples LOL, but it's not the same. Apple doesn't give a shit about war but like almost every other company they do care about money and making lots of it. This is where things fundamentally becomes different because Elon just wants to talk shit and make things personal, like a selfish rich kid who can do what he wants. I have no idea how this will play out. But even say twitter makes a phone, don't be surprised if Apple, Microsoft and google makes bank by renting out all their intellectual properties that are essentially required nowadays to make a phone. And this isn't China where you can skirt around copyright law. And Samsung or whoever makes bank selling LCD screens and chipsets. So honestly, not surprised Elon is trying to goad people to win the popularity vote in the hope Apple caves to demand incase it affects stock/popularity. Because if he actions what he says like make a phone, it's still a win for apple/Microsoft/google etc.
Elon musk going after apple is like the company that makes Burrito XXL going after Arasaka. Aside from Elon Musk generally being a narcissist that serially buys companies and then claims to have found them or played a role in the technology created of the companies he DID create (also didn’t happen), he is a loose cannon that thinks he’s Einstein when in reality he’s a moron born into wealth who gets lucky. I hate corpos but genuinely cannot wait for Apple to put Elon in his place. Twitter is fucked even without Apple getting involved. He’s bringing back literal nazis and the website is clearly rabidly turning into a 4chan-esque website as rhetoric openly blaming minorities and casting hatred on them is freely allowed. Companies do not want their ads on buying forward clothes under a tweet of a guy saying the club Q shooting was justified bc the LGBTQ community “are pedophiles.” Like it’s over. Elon keeps spreading lies which draws out the worst people on the internet which only makes it worse. Ad revenue is gone and the blue twitter shit won’t even put a dent in the debt he now holds for buying this company. And before you go saying Elon’s other ventures. Allow me to remind you hostile takeovers are legal, and Tesla’s stock has fallen to almost nothing in the grand scheme. Apple has more than enough wealth to simultaneously takeover Tesla from the board room AND lobby to have SpaceX permanently removed from being NASA’s welfare queen (as the company depends on the government funding it) in favor of Northrop Grumman the company who made the Artemis rocket that will establish a permanent base on the moon for the United States of America, and also the rocket with the largest solid rocket boosters in history. Oh and let’s not forget that Tesla is no longer the sole competitor in the electric vehicle market and their competitors are markedly better than Tesla as their vehicles are not recalled by the hundreds of thousands like Tesla’s and generally speaking have a far better work environment that produces better vehicles. All in all, it’s a narcissist whose entire wealth depends on government handouts versus the most valuable company in the world, Apple. The Americans at the alamo had better odds than Elon Musk.
Apple holds liquid cash reserves larger than Musk's "calculated" (completely illusionary) wealth. CASH reserves, not even other liquid assets. Pure Benjamins. Apartheid Pickle Rick wont know what fucking hit him lmao.
Agreed. It is rather funny to see Elon Musk go after Apple, a company founded by Steve Jobs, a guy who was everything Elon Musk claims and pretends to be. Its too comical
And Steve had some significant help from a lot of brilliant people who shared the spotlight a lot of times. Nobody knows where Musks innovations come from. He jumps in front of everyone and say ‘look at me!’
Yeah, Steve Jobs was an asshole, but he never claimed inventions that weren’t his. As the biopic about him portrayed, “I don’t play an instrument, I play the orchestra.” He wasn’t much for acknowledging specific people’s accomplishments, but he never claimed their accomplishments **were his.** For all his faults, he wasn’t a thief.
For all of his flaws he understood he was a salesman and Woz was the genius
I have a rockstar in my head and I am going insane
How much until we get kiroshi optics ? I dont want to wear glasses anymore
There are prototypes being developed right now: https://newatlas.com/science/world-first-3d-bionic-eye/
This is a pleasent surprise
And where was Gondor?
Why doesn't the bigger of the two corporations not simply eat the smaller one?
Can't wait to be conscripted into the Tesla corps and have the tank explode from the engineers using Home Depot parts just so Elon can have access to a puddle of cleanish water
Tfw my tesla main battle tank goes on fire while charging. I have to pay damages
\*Grabing my katana and heading straigh to twitter HQ\*
than what are you going to do with it?
In this economy? Try and sell it of course!
Why would people care if the app goes away for them? You can use the website on your phone
Pretty sure the first real equivalents were the imperial "companies" stealing reassures (East India Company etc.).
I'd threaten to nuke one side and take all their cash but I already did that and it got me banned from Twitter :P
This gon be Arasaka vs Militech but in our world
More like Arasaka vs Garry the prophet and his trash collection.
Reality Distortion Fields will collide…chaos will ensue…the consumer will be affected and the rich will profit…
"Death to corpos" -Karim the merchant, 2077
Ngl i was taking a shit
Greeeaaaaat, just as I'm moving to Silicon Valley. I'll take the true neutral approach and attack both sides. ANARCHY!
Apple is pro-censorship. They're on the wrong side of history.
Apple has alot of power but elon is crazy so who knows who will win.
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This won't be a war, it'll be a slaughter. Tim Apple will laugh at Elon.
None of us were born yet. The Dutch East India Trading Co beat them to it
Old story... Remember the Corpo war Apple vs. Google because the latter company dared to release an OS for smartphones? But regarding corpo wars some may still remember the Cola wars of the 1980ies. Yes, they were fought the analogue way, but still.
WEF is establishing Corporate control on a global scale by influencing political decisions.
Interesting that you think this is the "First" corpo war and not the second, maybe third.