Elon Musk slams Apple after company pauses Twitter advertising

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Very cool company, this Apple.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1597054942069460992

If you’re going to criticise them for doing business in China and playing by their rules, then the same could be said for Tesla, or are they not sold in China?

 

[Vorastra]

If you’re going to criticise them for doing business in China and playing by their rules, then the same could be said for Tesla, or are they not sold in China?

Tell me what Tesla has done to stifle these protests.

 

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Tell me what Tesla has done to stifle these protests.

Tell me why Musk is doing business with China if he’s such a big supporter of free speech

 

[Fulcrum29]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1436755533311131650

Tim Sweeney

Today: Lost a court case, climbed a mountain, read hundreds of pages of legal papers, wrote some code. Just as determined as ever to fight on until there is genuine developer and consumer freedom in software, and fair competition in each mobile platform software component.

Elon Musk

Didn’t you sorta win?

Please challenge Tim of Apple to trial by combat

Here is Musk almost a year later willing to take the challenge he proposed

 

[Vorastra]

Tell me why Musk is doing business with China if he’s such a big supporter of free speech

It's weird that you think Apple, which is actively stifling a protest on behalf of the CCP, with Tesla selling mass-produced electric cars and not affecting free speech.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Tell me why Musk is doing business with China if he’s such a big supporter of free speech

Is he doing business with the Chinese state or its people?

 

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Is he doing business with the Chinese state or its people?

You are required to abide by the state if you want to do business with the people, or not?

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

If Apple dropped the Twitter app from their app store it would basically be the end of Twitter as we know it imo.

 

[Fulcrum29]

You are required to abide by the state if you want to do business with the people, or not?

Yes, you have to, but is it humane to isolate ordinary people without due process? China is a market with needs and demands, and they are supplied. Frameworks: everyone has to abide by them wherever you conduct your business.

 

[BBSA]

They shouldn't be allowed to decide what apps owners can run on their hardware. They can decide what goes into their store, but should allow users to install from wherever they like. That's probably coming whether Apple likes it or not. I'll happily support laws forcing Apple to open up the platform. If they don't like it they can get out of the phone, tablet and watch business.

No, Apple is a private company. Government should not interfere to that extent.

 

[Fulcrum29]

If Apple dropped the Twitter app from their app store it would basically be the end of Twitter as we know it imo.

Apple can do as they please, it is their own ecosystem, and they don't compete directly with Twitter hence anti-competition rules aren’t as elaborate unless they promote an alternative to Twitter. The best Musk can do is to better promote Twitter uses on the web and by enriching its PWA.

 

[Pegasus]

Tell me why Musk is doing business with China if he’s such a big supporter of free speech

Why are you?

 

[seted]

Musk and Cook are both hypocrites, but it is beyond bizarre for the CEO of an unprofitable business to be trolling potential customers / investors.

If were Cook, I would consider Musk to be an unreliable business partner.

 

[Pegasus]

If Apple dropped the Twitter app from their app store it would basically be the end of Twitter as we know it imo.

True. Nobody will use twitter from a browser.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

It's like he doesn't have any other companies to run. Twatter has become his obsession...

 

[RiaX]

Kill apple dead. He must launch his new phone company and call it banana

 

[Pegasus]

Kill apple dead. He must launch his new phone company and call it banana

Bit late

 

[Gyre]

Oh dear. We have another one.

Shem.

@Gyre make a meme simping for trillion $ companies instead of billionaires. Like that billboard one.

 

[Gyre]

If Apple dropped the Twitter app from their app store it would basically be the end of Twitter as we know it imo.

But why? It can still be installed on a Mac or another Apple Product thru the PKG file?

 

[Vorastra]

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I did this instead.



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