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For all the slick marketing about recycling and eco stuff coming from Apple, pushing the Airpods with no replaceable battery was not cool. Removing the 3.5 audio port was a mistake, which they could afford to make because they were the gorilla in the industry, and we customers had no choice but to accept, grumble and keep buying their stuff. Same mistake as when they did away with USB-A, which is so pervasive even now. That was another mistake. And another one is to carefully cripple stuff to make people spend more money than they need to (ex. Macbook Air not supporting dual external monitors so less people use it for pro applications, even if it has the power to serve as a pro machine for many use cases). So, you have to take Apple's word and marketing bullshit with a big grain of salt. They do enough good things to keep you in, but barely, and they take full advantage of that loyal relationship they have with you.

grayfox691 said:

This has nothing to do with bots. Its buyers remorse for a rich guy who suddenly realized that he doesn't want to tie up 20% of his wealth for an idea he only half baked.

Compressed timeline: Eccentric billionaire wakes up, thought it was a brilliant idea. Consult yes men.  Eccentric billionaire wakes up, thought it was a bad idea, Consult yes men. 

What ever his actual reasons are it's outrageous that this guy is trolling twitter and playing with peoples livelihood. I'm sure plenty of semi-normal employees have allot of their retirement in Twitters stock and here comes "I do what ever I want and the rules don't apply" Musk. 

He consulted his Yes men and probably his bot fans on Twitter. He’s known to do that with Twitter polls. 

Interesting stuff from Axios:

1. Twitter has sought multiple times to put in place a program to pay top employees to stay through the merger, but Musk has not given a needed OK.

• "Musk has unreasonably withheld consent to two employee retention programs designed to keep selected top talent during a period of intense uncertainty generated in large part by Musk’s erratic conduct and public disparagement of the company and its personnel," Twitter said in the suit — a time when employee attrition "has been on the upswing."

2. Musk brought in former Intel CEO Bob Swan to act as his advisor, only to later push him out, notifying Twitter in a June 23 text message that he had asked Swan "to depart the deal proceedings, as we are not on the same wavelength."

3. Twitter CFO Ned Segal tried several times to set up a meeting with Musk to discuss the company's methodology for determining the percentage of fake accounts, but Musk declined a meeting, while still saying Twitter had not provided the info he needed

Good riddance to a pretentious overrated designer. To me Ive will be synonymous with not only expensive stuff, but expensive impractical stuff. When a key fails on your MBP keyboard, after warranty expired, you’ll pay $700 to fix it and be happy for the privilege. Used to be that Apple was worth the extra cost because it lasted longer. Now Apple is slowly getting back to that. Not yet there, but they’re better after Ive has been gone. But now you have to contend with Tim Cook’s bullshit that Apple doesn’t design to cost: they clearly do, when they carefully exclude features which make people upgrade to more pro expensive models unnecessarily. 

Finally saw one of these in person (the Rivian truck, not the Tim Apple), and it's true what they say that it doesn't look as bad as in photos. I thought the headlights looked ridiculous, but not bad in real life.