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Apple will buy US-made chips from TSMC, confirms Tim Cook
This is one of those times I wish AppleInsider would do a bit more detailed reporting.
Please tell us why Chang of TSMC Taiwan said the plans were "doomed to fail." I want to know all the reasons he cited, but I can read the original article because its locked behind a paywall.
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Steve Jobs' Birkenstocks sold for $218,750
I am a huge Steve Jobs fan, but let's face it... That's disgusting. What's next, stained undergarments? Both sellers and buyers of things things need to seek professional help.
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Apple's ad agency recommends a stop to Twitter campaigns
Being a child of the 70's, I existed prior to the Twitter character limit and even prior to scroll wheels. There was a time when people read multiple paragraphs of text and appreciated it. If my comment was hard to read, AppleInsider articles must be harder because some are much longer than what I wrote.sconosciuto said:
That was a whole lot of words to say, "Help, I can't find my scroll wheel!"jdw said:"Twitter has had a tumultuous few days" ONLY in the eyes of the mass media, which includes AppleInsider. And I say this truth as an avid reader of AppleInsider who continues to love content here. But despite my love for AppleInsider, I call it like it is.
Daily reporting of Musk is either mass hysteria, cancel culture at work, or simply capitalist profiteering from hot-button "shock" news to draw in more readers. Or maybe it's all of those things.
Here's reality...
It's not that big a deal.
Musk is a rich guy who for his own reasons bought Twitter -- a social media platform that I myself never use except for the rare cases of entering some kind of giveaway or sweepstakes. FaceBook interactions mean far, far more to me. (I'm not into Instagram either, for what it's worth.) And while a large number of people really do care about Twitter, we all need to sit back, take a deep breath and relax because before Twitter existed, human beings existed and got along with each other about as well as we are today.
Can the world live without Twitter? You bet it can! In some ways, it probably would be better for it.
So when a rich guy buys a company and then tries to get a return on his investment, he will try many things. Some things he tries will fail and others will succeed. Musk is playing with ideas now. LET HIM! The mass media is having a hay day with it only because CHANGE ALWAYS TRIGGERS CONTROVERSY! But in the end, all the mass media does is manipulate the minds of readers. That's right. It's not some crazy rich guy touting freedom of speech that endangers minds. It's the mind manipulating media! The same is true of election time. We have all this so-called "news" which is little more than biased commentary, all constructed to trigger people and indirectly influence votes. Why? Because triggered people help ratings and viewer/reader-ship. Yeah. It's as petty as money. Or better: "filthy lucre."
Don't get me wrong. I still like AppleInsider. They are merely playing follow-the-leader when it comes to hot button and "trending" stories like this. But in the greater scheme of things, this topic about Musk and Twitter doesn't matter. If you died today and went to heaven, do you thing the saints will be asking you about the latest news on Twitter? Think about it. There are much, MUCH more meaningful things than the need to dwell daily on what Musk is doing with something new he bought.
Don't worry. Be happy.
It's good advice for us all. Yeah, it does work. And if you leave somebody alone to think long enough, good may come of it. Leave Musk and Twitter alone, and report on something else. We all need a breather from this incessant Twitter/Musk news. The only reason it seems to be a big deal is because the mass media wants you to believe that. It's time we all stop listening to what others tell us to think and start thinking for ourselves, even if that means we need to take a break from the crazy daily news for a while.
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Tim Cook says Apple is being more cautious with new hires
"Cautious with new hires" implies they were being reckless before, which certainly isn't true in light of the multiple levels of interviews one needed to get through before to even be considered for hiring. I think it's his nice way of saying, "we plan to hire fewer people." No harm in that, although it would mean it is now even harder to get a job at Apple. -
Apple's ad agency recommends a stop to Twitter campaigns
Let's see... Currently 5 Likes & 3 Informatives on your post which does nothing other than bash, proving my point about the media which triggered your negativity. The topic I mentioned about the media and the negativity it creates includes Elon Musk but it also transcends him. I thought I made that very clear in my post. So to focus exclusively on Musk and overlook the greater problem is even "more rich."drdavid said:
Wow, thanks for all the information about what rich guys do and how to run a business. It amazes me the extent Elon-stans go in defending him. I mean just look at that screed. And of course it’s the usual blame the media b.s.jdw said:"Twitter has had a tumultuous few days" ONLY in the eyes of the mass media, which includes AppleInsider. And I say this truth as an avid reader of AppleInsider who continues to love content here. But despite my love for AppleInsider, I call it like it is.
Daily reporting of Musk is either mass hysteria, cancel culture at work, or simply capitalist profiteering from hot-button "shock" news to draw in more readers. Or maybe it's all of those things.
Here's reality...
It's not that big a deal.
Musk is a rich guy who for his own reasons bought Twitter -- a social media platform that I myself never use except for the rare cases of entering some kind of giveaway or sweepstakes. FaceBook interactions mean far, far more to me. (I'm not into Instagram either, for what it's worth.) And while a large number of people really do care about Twitter, we all need to sit back, take a deep breath and relax because before Twitter existed, human beings existed and got along with each other about as well as we are today.
Can the world live without Twitter? You bet it can! In some ways, it probably would be better for it.
So when a rich guy buys a company and then tries to get a return on his investment, he will try many things. Some things he tries will fail and others will succeed. Musk is playing with ideas now. LET HIM! The mass media is having a hay day with it only because CHANGE ALWAYS TRIGGERS CONTROVERSY! But in the end, all the mass media does is manipulate the minds of readers. That's right. It's not some crazy rich guy touting freedom of speech that endangers minds. It's the mind manipulating media! The same is true of election time. We have all this so-called "news" which is little more than biased commentary, all constructed to trigger people and indirectly influence votes. Why? Because triggered people help ratings and viewer/reader-ship. Yeah. It's as petty as money. Or better: "filthy lucre."
Don't get me wrong. I still like AppleInsider. They are merely playing follow-the-leader when it comes to hot button and "trending" stories like this. But in the greater scheme of things, this topic about Musk and Twitter doesn't matter. If you died today and went to heaven, do you thing the saints will be asking you about the latest news on Twitter? Think about it. There are much, MUCH more meaningful things than the need to dwell daily on what Musk is doing with something new he bought.
Don't worry. Be happy.
It's good advice for us all. Yeah, it does work. And if you leave somebody alone to think long enough, good may come of it. Leave Musk and Twitter alone, and report on something else. We all need a breather from this incessant Twitter/Musk news. The only reason it seems to be a big deal is because the mass media wants you to believe that. It's time we all stop listening to what others tell us to think and start thinking for ourselves, even if that means we need to take a break from the crazy daily news for a while.
There’s no reason for the media to ignore a story about someone overpaying for a company by 20 billion dollars, laying off thousands of employees, putting their remaining employees in legal jeopardy with the FTC (Twitter is under a consent decree from before elon purchased it) or ruining the value of Twitter as an ad company by being so toxic that more and more brands don’t want to be associated with it.Elon is one of the biggest trolls around. Telling other people to just leave him alone is pretty rich.
I stand by what I wrote. Sometimes, you need to take a breather and switch off the negative news for a while. To avoid doing that only proves one's addiction to negativity. And the more you feed that side of yourself, the more angry and bitter you become. And while I cast much of the blame on the media for this, we each are mature adults who bear responsibility for either continuing that path of addiction, or breaking from it. Not everything in life needs to be negative or an online argument with people you don't even know.
