timfreitas

Both parties are making money of that you can be sure!

It must be so humiliating to have to publicly kiss orange top's (you know what) in front of the whole world.  I'm sure Cook will get some unpleasant feedback.  I concede that Cook found himself in a no win situation and did what he felt was best for Apple, their customers and stock holders.  

Timothy Freitas

P.S. - I wonder if Mr. Cook slept well after this meeting?

Elon Musk is ruthless in his business dealings.  I would be very careful if I had to deal with him!  Any decency is considered a weakness and will be used to his advantage!  He uses people up and them discards them with a text message.  His people skills leave much to be desired.  He and his buddy Mr. T handle people and behave very much the same.  The two of them are so much alike it is scary.  Exaggeration and lying is a constant of both.  It is extremely sad to see the potential in Elon only to have him sabotage himself with horrible behavior.  Sad...So Sad, What a waste of his talent.

I have a simple solution.....if you used any of apples software to develop their application / game and you don't agree to their terms then you have to pay for any/all of the tools you are using or used....They then can set the price to what ever they want for the tools and give them a lower price for the use of their website.   The reasoning follows that they pay all the cost to produce and maintain the tools and maintain and run the website.  The developer at this time pays nothing except a small royalty for the free use of their software and website.  I think this reasoning makes much more sense.