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paisleydisco said:

LOL name change isn't going to make people smarter. My friends and family prove me right. 

They'll still be confused about the 'apple account' -- nothing can save these types. They can't understand the Apple ID/account from their typical email. They don't understand the Appe ID has a password that is not the password for their Apple ID email name. Etc. You say Apple ID and they start typing their passwords or say they don't know their password. LOL clown show 

The only way to correct this would be everyone using an 'Apple Account' would be using an actual Apple email eg icloud.com and no other email. But that's not happening.

paisleydisco said:

LOL name change isn't going to make people smarter. My friends and family prove me right. 

They'll still be confused about the 'apple account' -- nothing can save these types. They can't understand the Apple ID/account from their typical email. They don't understand the Appe ID has a password that is not the password for their Apple ID email name. Etc. You say Apple ID and they start typing their passwords or say they don't know their password. LOL clown show 

The only way to correct this would be everyone using an 'Apple Account' would be using an actual Apple email eg icloud.com and no other email. But that's not happening.

I have to agree with you 100%. If you don’t understand what Apple ID means a ‘simpler’ Apple Account ain’ gonna help you. Honestly, never knew this was a problem for some people. 

bob-tahoma said:

jfabula1 said:

Ah EU….sorry but Google is not EU company you can bully. Yes you can tax them the right way but ad is their business. If businesses are really hurting then dont advertise on their platform. Simple enough.

 Yep, but they do trade here. Refusing to comply can come with sanctions, such as preventing doing business here. (I say here even though I am in the UK as we are essentially a vassal state where their laws massively impact us and ours just destroy our economy even further).  

Secondly, the EU passing such legislation makes it a hell of a lot easier for the US to do the same as somebody has already done the ground work for you. 

The good news is it won’t stop at Google. MS, Meta and Apple will be next. Time to get back to the good ol’ days of proper innovation!

AppleInsider said:

Elon Musk-owned X Corp. has absorbed Twitter Inc. as the first step to becoming an "everything app" similar to China's WeChat.

Twitter Inc. is now X Corp.

Twitter's slow transformation from micro-blog to everything platform has seemingly begun. A series of corporate ownership moves has made Twitter Inc. cease to exist, at least in name.

According to information obtained by Slate, X Corp. merged with Twitter Inc. on April 4. This information was revealed within court documents from an ongoing court case between Twitter and Laura Loomer.

The court case in question isn't particularly important, it's a case where Loomer is suing Twitter for violating federal racketeering laws when her account was banned in 2019. What is interesting are court filings that were shared publicly.

The filing reads: "Twitter, Inc. has been merged into X Corp. and no longer exists."

This merger hasn't been announced and likely won't have any immediate effect on the app or service, but it is a first step from Elon Musk. He previously said that Twitter would become the "everything app" called X and could rival other platforms like China's WeChat.

Nothing suggests that X Corp. will actually lead to the X app. The reporting also suggests this could be a move to have a larger parent company named X as the controlling interest over all of Musk's properties like Tesla and Space X.

Interestingly, this also means that the entity that is Twitter under X Corp. is now based in Nevada instead of Delaware. However, all of the debt and lawsuits Musk and Twitter faced before will be carried to the new X Corp.

And, Musk was the original owner of the "X.com" domain. He once used it for a payment service that was rolled into Paypal back around the turn of the century.

He re-bought the domain in 2017, for an undisclosed sum.

Twitter is still functional as a social media platform. It continues to spark controversy with who it allows, who it bans, and what content is allowed.

Many users, especially in the tech community, have sought refuge from this upheaval on various platforms or by quitting social media altogether. AppleInsider continues to operate on Twitter but can be found on Facebook, Instagram, and Mastodon.

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