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People keep saying he didnt know about Apples 30% - of course he did. Google do the same. They ALL do.
The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down
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Given that he originally said $8 through the app and then raised it by ~30% for the app after his apple talk and kept it at $8 for the web shows he didn't account for it as he would expect most of the purchases to come in through the web therefore he has based his budgeting on $8 a user. This really only leaves two options
1. He knew about it and arrogantly thought it wouldn't apply to him
2. He didn't know because no one told him. From all accounts Elon is the type of boss to fire people for very little provocation. Can you imagine Elon talking though the $8 dollar business plan and being the one to say Elon you know there's a 30% cut here..
I'd probably put it 80/20 on the two possibilities. Either option shows he not the business genius he's believed to be. Unless anyone has any other theories that would explain this odd about turn on the pricing
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He said $8, he didnt say what platform. Now most people would expect hat to be $8 on all the platforms, sure, but that clearly isnt the case now. Whatever, that's not my point - he absolutely knew Apple charge 30% because they ALL do. So there's some other reason as to why he's increased the cost on iOS. Whether that's google waivered their fee (unlikely) and Apple refused to, or something else. But whatever it is, it ISNT because Musk was unaware of the charges.
Apple is direct competition for Musk in the greater realm of what a bigly tech company is aiming for, so no real reason to add anything to that but probably also because it didn't really affect him (I'm fairly sure he must have an app for his cars on IOS, but that's not the business) until he bought a company that effectively relies on dissemination through mobile phones for growth.
Though maybe it's more personal and just doesn't like someone at the company.
Though maybe it's more personal and just doesn't like someone at the company.
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You've no idea then, excellent.
Not sure what the point is about old tweets? How about the tweets from democrat senators saying they would never trust a vaccine developed under a trump government? Or the countless tweets from democratic senators telling folks to get out and mingle, ignoring advice not to? Picking tweets from the early days of COVID as some sort of 'gotcha' is a mugs game as there's plenty of evidence lots of people were saying stupid statements.Edit.
OK I found an issue/quirk with the forum.
If you edit an existing post, then quote a post, it doesn't add it to the edit box but a new one.
Hence the 3 posts
Edit edit.
To at least give them some value, here's a nice reminder of another joke Elon was clearly only joking about and not to be taken seriously. Clearly just a joke.
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We know a lot of politicians are stupid though whichever ideological side they fall on - Musk is meant to be a genius.
Lots of smart people say stupid things, pretty sure Bill Gates said the internet was a ****** idea with no benefit in the early days
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He's pro-vaccine though, his issue seems to be that he was opposed to hard lockdowns.
Lots of smart people say stupid things, pretty sure Bill Gates said the internet was a ****** idea with no benefit in the early days
You're pretty sure about that, eh?
'cause I'm pretty sure he was actually a cheerleader for what the internet would do in the early days of the World Wide Web and it was chat show hosts who were laughing at his belief in it...
yes?
1994 - "I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years"
or how about stating email spam will be gone in 2 years, said in 2004?
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Doesn't seem that far out of whack to me.
I'll let you have that one though
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That's nice. Good to see the congresswoman who just admitted she would happily organise and join an armed insurrection on the US government in agreement with him.
Looks like he is making all the best people happy! Good for Elon!
You should know that saying the pros of lockdowns dont/didn't outweigh the cons means you are an anti vaxer/covid denier by now. This is part of the problem with covid debates/discussions, hyperbole and accusations are king rather than calm, rational debate.
What? How is suggesting prosecuting the head of the NIAID/chief medical officer for the president, for simply doing his job and trying to keep people safe, "rational debate"?
Maybe if he simply just wanted to debate why he didn't like lockdowns he should have a sensible discussion with data to back it up.
Instead, he's just spreading memes and conspiracy nonsense.
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I believe most folks on the right in the US want him prosecuted for telling porkies under oath to congress.
At least thats possible on new twitter, old twitter would have just shadowbanned you
memes are real dammit
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Exactly. And the weak defence of "it's just a joke bra" is rubbish.
So what.
I know roar reports jokes on this forum to get them removed. In his view, an innocent joke against him is too much and must be removed, but a joke by Elon against fauci, said to the entire world, that's OK.
It's just another example of simping for daddy elon
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Knew you'd say that.
"Elon is not a republican and here is an old tweet to prove it, please ignore all the new tweets that show him as a republican, look at all these old tweets"
2 weeks later....
"why are you bringing up old tweets"
Typical tatos getting the context of something wrong, wanna quote the rest of the post about covid tweets? How's he voted in the past btw, democrat or republican?
Maybe you can drop another gotcha about twitter earnings reports clearly notunderstanding q3 reports would have nothing to do with Musk
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