Elon vs Twitter update: Elon helped America win , Tesla stock through the roof

Predictions?

 

lol @ elon now starting a fight with tim apple.

pumped TSLA with a "hertz deal". sold billions in TSLA. bought TWTR. became best friends with Ye and Trump.
all for FrEE sPEeCH!


The man is so petty. Probably all doing this to despise Biden for not acknowledging him/the company he bought (Tesla).

 

lol. secret. everyone knows this. that's the price you pay to play in the apple garden.

 

Both Apple's and Google's policies are totally opaque. They can seemingly randomly block you from releasing a new version of your app, and they basically do take 30% of everything you make, like a tax. It's problematic because of their dominant market positions.

 

Since January 2020:
11.72M accounts challenged
11,230 accounts suspended
97,674 content removed

September 2022:
520 accounts challenged
173 accounts suspended
602 content removed

 

good point about Twitter. It's a bit like the Rockets hanging on to Boban for his "veteran leadership."

http://theglitteringeye.com/the-risks-of-downsizing/

November 25 2022 2:36 PM
The Risks of Downsizing
by Dave Schuler

There has been quite a bit of pontification about Elon Musk’s activities at Twitter. I won’t remark one way or the other because a) I don’t know anything about Twitter’s internal operations and b) I don’t really care.

It does bring to mind one thing, however, which I thought I’d pass along. There are risks in downsizing. Quite a while ago IBM conducted a study in which they found, possibly counterintuitively, that you may not increase productivity by downsizing.

In tech companies in particular it is a commonplace that a rather small percentage of staff are doing a remarkable amount of the actual work. You might think that lots of money can be saved by getting rid of the relatively unproductive and only holding on to the superproducers. In turned out it doesn’t work that way. There are social aspects to companies; people are not interchangeable parts. Sometimes what happens when you get rid of everybody but the superproducers is that the superproducers stop being so super. For one thing those apparently superfluous staff members may be allowing the superproducers to focus on what they’re good at and what they like to do.
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well that's inconvenient

 

They take it because they are hosting the app store.
Do you want access to the customer base for free?
If I go set up a shop inside the Galleria, should I get outraged if they charged me rent or fees?

 

It's a bit more complex than that.

 

Enlighten me.

 

I'm in a rush right now, but

https://www.reuters.com/legal/trans...pp-store-cydias-antitrust-lawsuit-2022-05-27/

(Reuters) - Apple Inc on Thursday lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit in California federal court from competing app store Cydia, which accused the iPhone maker of maintaining an unlawful monopoly over software distribution on its operating system.

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, rejected Apple's contention that Cydia's allegations fell outside a four-year window allowed under federal antitrust law.


Gonzalez Rogers issued her ruling for plaintiff SaurikIT LLC, which developed Cydia, after dismissing an earlier legal challenge. She found the claims in the first lawsuit were outside the statute of limitations. But she allowed Cydia to bring a new complaint, which was filed in January.


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Cydia's lawyers argued in the amended lawsuit that Apple's technology updates between 2018 and 2021 were "overt" acts that harmed iOS app distributors such as Cydia. In Thursday's ruling, Gonzalez Rogers said "to the extent plaintiff's claims rely on Apple's technological updates to exclude Cydia from being able to operate altogether, those claims are timely."


Apple and a lawyer for the company at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher did not immediately respond to messages on Friday seeking comment.

Cydia's lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan did not immediately respond to similar messages.

Apple's attorneys in February called Cydia's claims "time-barred" and "stale" and urged Gonzalez Rogers to dismiss the complaint and to bar any further effort to amend it.


Cydia's lawsuit "seeks to open the markets for iOS app distribution and iOS app payment processing to those who wish to compete fairly with Apple, and to recover the enormous damages Apple caused Cydia."

Cydia's case is similar to an antitrust lawsuit that Fortnite maker Epic Games Inc brought against Apple in 2020 over its removal of the popular video game from the App Store. Apple pulled Fortnite after Epic set up a payment system that went around Apple's 30% commission on in-app purchases.
Gonzalez Rogers largely ruled for Apple last year, and the case is now pending in the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Gonzalez Rogers directed Apple to respond by mid-June to Cydia's complaint.

The case is SaurikIT LLC v. Apple Inc, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 4:20-cv-08733-YGR.

Also:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/02/apple_app_monopoly/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereks...antitrust-suit-against-apple/?sh=64676cb652d2

https://9to5mac.com/2022/04/21/apples-transparency-reports-arent-very-transparent/

 

BROoooooooooo. Applleeee don't liik3 Fr33 sPeEchH. And the dumbass Elon fans eat it up. It's about money. It's capitalism. If it made monetary sense to continue to advertise on Twitter they'd do it. But there's no ROI and it's a divisive platform now. No need to waste money on it.

Elon just talks for buzz and attention. It's the idiots that eat this **** up that drive the madness.

Twitter advertising sucks. Make it good. You cant BEG and CRY for customers. This isn't TSLA where the govt gives you handout credits.

The people Twitter now seems to cater to cant afford Apple products and probably wouldn't understand how to use them. Elon needs to make a dumbed-down phone for this BELOVED Arkansas audience of his. Lulz.

 

Elon Musk Demands Twitter Servers Explain What All These Wires For

 

I DOOOO like that my APPL puts are VERY HEALTHY now, supposedly, thanks in part to Elon's BS.

 

Honestly this is a prime example of fascism.


Free speech being used a crutch while also being a one way street. When society was more conservative and the capitalist markets pandered to conservative sensibilities(Leave it to Beaver era) , these type of out cries were silent. People @Os Trigonum wouldn't give a **** at that point.

And I want to keep on making this point. The far right since the Nazis used "free speech" as a rallying cry:

 

lol

 

A one way street in approach to free speech?

Absolutely.