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This might get shutdown either through API changes or Apple legal, but I think it would be great if Apple allowed other systems to implement an Apple Messages Lite with just core E2EE messaging. It would benefit Apple having more users with Apple IDs and an iPhone would still be required for integration with the App Store ecosystem. It would benefit Apple users and Apple's privacy stance since your texts to android users would be secure.

bonobob said:

TheObannonFile said:

bluefire1 said:

In the short term Musk will use the expertise of his extensive team to iron out the kinks, flush out the excess, learn from initial mistakes and make Twitter better then ever.
My money’s on him long term.

Absolutely. He’s not an idiot, by a long shot. This will go how these things always go. There’s a lot of buzz right now, and everybody is paying attention. Companies are trying to virtue signal like crazy right now.

Twitter will be up and running functionally in no time. People will forget. And all the advertisers will return.

All the keyboard CEO’s who know better than Elon will move on to something else.

And all the morons who are going to “boycott” any business or brand advertising on Twitter will be patronizing all of them without a thought.

No, he's not an idiot.  He has a very high IQ, for sure.  His problem is his EQ (emotional quotient).  It seems to be in the low single digits, thanks to his narcissism and sociopathy.  He does well when working with things, and horribly when working with people.  Twitter is all about people, so he's floundering.

Maybe a hint of narcissism, but what leader doesn’t have that. Musk certainly doesn’t have any EQ issues. Most of his prior employees love him. He obviously cares very much about people’s and societies problems. Just as different people learn differently and one size fits all doesn’t work for education, I think the same is true for corporate culture. I think Musk works better starting from a smaller company. Musk has people that thrive under the culture developed at Tesla and SpaceX. Twitter was built under a different culture and you can’t expect those people to thrive if it suddenly changes. At some point Musk will either replace most of the staff at Twitter with those that like to work his way or learn to live with the staff in place and work their way. It might be best for Musk to assign a different president and he could just run a skunkworks team inside Twitter aimed at some of his goals. 

Although I’ll never doubt Musks persistence to make something work, I feel this is a situation he is not accustomed to and he has been making all the wrong calls so far. His prior companies were much smaller so he got to a grow company culture organically. I think his companies have an atypical culture–from what I have heard people either love it or hate it–and I think he doesn’t like the very corporate culture at Twitter. He made fun of Twitter’s corporate training right after purchasing which is standard practice at virtually all large companies. You can’t change a culture as fast as he wants to.

Productivity engineers would be certainly be involved. Apple doesn’t want a Meta Horizon’s level flop in the productivity space when it launches. I think it will run most iOS apps. Pointer control and stage manager can work in AR. Apple has made it easy for apps to target all of Apple’s platforms in recent years. This might be the first headset that can really do anything. It will be interesting to see which apps adopt holographic views in addition to flat screens.

I’m very curious if Apple Arcade and Apple TV+ will release exclusive content for the headset considering the limited market. Apple already acquired a VR media company and has been rumored to be speaking with VR game companies. I’m curious if Apple will add Google Cardboard like support for viewing media to make the initial market larger. Support for this is already in private APIs on the iPhone, but it isn’t clear if that was just for prototyping.

Maybe the US bans TikTok right when Vine is relaunched. Elon seems to get away with everything I guess.