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Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

X is the new news. 

Yet thousands of people a day are leaving X for other sites like BlueSky. 

They are leaving because of the way Elon has changed the site since he bought it. Now Zuck is following suit on MugBook.
My brother is fully engaged with X... or was. When he found Elon's musings in his feed without him asking for it, he gave up the platform.

Here in the UK, many retail brands have quit the platform.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/tech/which-brands-quit-x-twitter-elon-musk-guardian-npr-balenciaga-b1193886.html
Apple should IMHO stay well clear of the swamp that X has become. Rise above the swamp creatures.

If they return, it won't affect me as I'm not on any of the social media platforms.

JamesCude said:

Tik-tok has zero inherent value. If all creators decided to leave tomorrow it would be completely worthless. It would be like buying an expensive piece of land just for a car that happened to be parked on it.

The same argument about inherent value can apply to Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp etc.
There are reports of hundreds of thousands of people leaving Twitter since Elon ruined it by making people follow him and other right-wingers. The same goes for Facebook since Zuck announced that Fact Checking was a thing of the past.

I never saw the attraction of (anti-)social media after a bad experience with MySpace. 
There is life outside of Social Media. 

It makes sense to me.  Buying T-T will attract a whole new raft of scrutiny from Uncle Sam. Given the changes in Twitter and Facebook as they move to be more Trumpian Friendly, T-T's new owners will be expected to follow suit OR face 'the Spanish Inquisition' from Congress. The Oversight Committee could tie Apple up in lawsuits for years if they owned T-T and didn't start licking No 47's high heels.
As if they didn't have a big enough target on their backs as it is...

The same arguments would apply if Apple started its own search engine.  I am sure that we will soon start seeing Google change its promotion algorithms to put his latest grift subject at the top of all result sets.

IMHO, it is far better for Apple to stay well clear of that part of the DC swamp. There be leopards ready to eat Tim Cook's face. 

mayfly said:

The more the Russian government tries to damage Apple, the more Russian citizens will want iPhones. And need them, given the Putin dictatorship's suppression of civil rights. Fire up those iPhones, use those VPNs, free Navalny. MOSCOW SPRING!

Russia has just tried to ban VPN's again. This is an ongoing battle with the FSB/KGB that goes back to when Putin first became the 'Dear Leader'. 

chasm said:

I’m sure Formula 1 is exciting

These days, F1 is just a mega marketing event with a bit of racing at the icing on the top.  It costs a small fortune to attend even the practice sessions.
If you want proper racing then almost any of the clubman series would be a better bet than the borefest that F1 has become.
I say that as someone who started going to F1 in the days of Graham Hill with my Father. After James Hunt/Nigel Mansell, it became IMHO very uncompetitive.
Some of the battles involving Mansell, Lauda, and Senna were epic. Today? ZZZZzzzzzzzzz

Apple should stay well away.