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macrumorssucks said:

As you can tell from my username, I’m not happy Macrumors closed comments on this mundane story.

We the people should be able to comment on any story.  Thank you AppleInsider for keeping the flow of opinions open.

That said, who cares.  X is the #1 social media platform for news.  Why shouldn’t they advertise on X.  It makes smart business sense.  It makes more sense than the Apple Vision Pro toy for $3500

Elon funds far right wing extremist group AfD in Germany politics, and I watched an interview of Elon's father admit that Elon's grand father in Canada supported the Nazis.  My father served in WWII and he would be absolutely disgusted by the support of Elon and X if he was stlll alive.   It seems as though America is becoming a cross between Nazi Germany and Russia.  disgusting.  Tim has no moral compass.

pjohnt said:

thinkman100000000 said:

3 very sick men are eating up 75% of the daily news cycle. West, Musk, Trump. The media is 100% to blame for giving these horrific men the pulpits to spread their hate, non-sense, and pure evil. Those of you caught up in their nets are inexcusable sycophants. At some point these hitlar-ian voices must crumble from the weight of their own insanity and hopefully take their follower with them.

Musk evil?  You don't have to like the guy but I'm not sure how you could possibly think he's somehow an evil person.  That's insane 

Well, Twitter under previous management wouldn't tolerate Trump and West's hatred, disinformation, lies, etc. but Musk supports it, and he even adds a little fuel to their gaslighting.   Musk wanted Tesla to pay him $58 Billion in compensation, yet Tesla only made $10Billion in EBIT, and only has about $29 Billion in cash/investments.  I don't care if you spit diamonds out of your keister,  no one should be allowed to get $58 Billion in compensation.   Which is about the amount Musk has dumped into X to keep it up and running.   I also think Musk is running a Ponzi scam with Tesla.  No other publicly traded company that I know of allows the CEO to use their stock in the company as collateral for a personal loan.  That's simply wrong on so many levels.  IF the stock price goes down and the stock used as collateral is worth less than the loan amount due, then the Bank can take the shares and dump them to recoup their loan.   That poses a HUGE risk to shareholders.  

I wish the DOJ would leave Apple alone.  Apple is NOT a monopoly.  If you add up the market share of all of their "computing" devices (if you added up all macOS, iOS, iPadOS devices as a total), they are hovering in the  20% to 30%  range, as is Microsoft and Google in terms of OS's.  But in terms of market share of desktops/laptops, or just the smartphones, or just the tablets, then Apple has a much small market share.   Apple just has MANY different OSs due to the various products they make and their differentiation between them.

Yeah, why would a computer company have to sell their OS to OEMs?  There's no law about that.  that's like telling a car company, you have to sell your drive train to OEMs, because you're selling too many cars under your own brand.

People are not held to only being able to use Apple devices.  I know people that have an Android, Apple and Windows based products and they don't have a problem using it.  Sure, we might get certain features, but the main attraction to all devices by one company is usability/ease of use and support.  

If a customer wants to switch to another smartphone brand, they can, anytime they want to. no one is forcing them to stick with Apple.

As far as the App Store, it just makes sense for Apple to have their App Store, Microsoft has theirs that serves THEIR platforms, and Google has theirs to serve THEIR platform.  That's what customers want.  They want EASE of getting, managing the apps they use. The only issue is just battling between the App developers on how much they have to give up for one company to manage the App Store.

I guess since Apple has traditionally been the lowest in terms of spending money on lobbyists, they get unfair treatment in the legal system.    MIcrosoft spent the most in lobbying money spent, but now, it's Google that spends the most in lobby money for high tech companies.

 

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