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Tim Cook’s Roster Of Sad, Subservient Rich Bois

I Wouldn’t Trust Tim Cook As Far As He Could Throw An Actual Apple

Right now Tim Cook has Elon Musk & Daniel Ek at his feet, begging for mercy for imaginary problems just like Mark Zuckerberg has done in the past…and the present. These tactics can only best be described as watching paint dry as it also somehow circles the drain. Boring, slow, and long drawn out processes of entrapping the public’s attention or mocking us for having no more choice in this anti-competitive market. The men on this list are all supposed to be billionaires, and geniuses. But they are neither.

If any of these guys were to try to actually liquidate their stock and assets into real capital, they would find out quickly that they’re underwater massively. Not rich beyond their wildest dreams. It can be confusing for the public how that’s even possible. When you look under the hood of a certain kind of wealth, though, you get the picture pretty clearly. In the end, that’s a story for another day. The point here is that nobody should be begging Apple for anything but a request they get out of creative.

Apple’s original programming is so bad, and overpriced, that it will be remembered as making some of the most watchable bombs, and the most unwatchable successes, in history. Their slate will help tell the story about how retarding the American public’s sense of taste, style, and interest was not for the better.

Elon Musk, Twitter.com, TSLA, and Whatever Else This Spoiled Brat Wants

Twitter.com has an app for your phone. You don’t need it, though. All that does is give Twitter, Inc. (now 100% Elon Musk personally, and privately) access to your phone and credit card information potentially or whatever else they can glean from being in Apple’s system. Apple wants that to continue because they also think they benefit from this kind of creepy program of spying on people anonymously or intently. Having left most of these services, or never having given them much, I can assure you it doesn’t really impact anything. They can’t do much about spying on you. Apple won’t rob your bank account even if they could. It would be too petty and obvious of a crime with no purpose. The threat is there.

But that’s about it.

By the same token, Tim Cook is playing around on Twitter.com because he and Elon Musk are in the same club of unnecessarily rich white men who get a free pass for sponsoring the right political figures or causes. But both of them are inherently lame losers who shouldn’t even be invited to a dinner party. I mean could you imagine attempting to listen to Tim Cook speak for more than 2 minutes? I’d rather watch Ashton Kutcher play Steve Jobs on repeat for 72 hours straight than attend an Apple product launch. They have never innovated anything other than stock manipulation, which, is a tale old as time.

At this point I’ve told every major advertiser that used to be on Twitter.com that they should have built their own social media (we need a new category name, and philosophy for this sector) platforms a long time ago. They will not be able to do that because nobody in the public markets has had an original thought for the internet for like 25 years, and all the talk of “Web 3” makes me sick because most people really don’t even understand web v.01 yet. But again, that’s another story too.

There must be talks behind the scenes, or even in front of the scenes that I just don’t know about, with respect to Apple & Tesla doing business together. They are both mega-cap companies, so you know they end up in some anti-competitive situations. What’s the difference between Tim Cook and Elon Musk? At this point, a couple digits on paper. Forget about their past. They are who they are now.

Twitter.com is a free app. There should be no question about purchases from it. Also, there is 0 difference between going to Twitter.com on your web browser (even on the phone) and the app. It could be designed & developed to make that just much easier, and it would break the App store. Because I don’t even think there is a good security case to make for centralizing all of the internet’s applications. I know it’s great for Apple, their shareholders (BlackRock, Vanguard, and Berkshire Hathaway I’m looking at you guys) but it’s bad for basically everybody else. Anybody thinking you own shares of Apple, if you’re with a money manager or broker, you don’t. They lie to you. Their position supersedes yours.

If Elon Musk were really going to war with Apple he’d destroy them – if he could. Either he can’t because he is not capable or intelligent enough to do so. Or he does the bidding of BlackRock (he does) so it’s all a show just to drive traffic to an app store nobody needs anymore. If we’re entertaining a Metaverse, I really don’t understand why we would need Apple to administer access to IP addresses.

Oh Danny, Boy, The Pipes, The Pipes Are Calling

Daniel Ek once was a hacker without a cause. Now he’s a weakling in the face of a fruit. I just watched his ego boosting program on TV and thought it was a humbling look at how he built his company. But it doesn’t take into account the existential loss in market capitalization he suffered. How this company continues to stay afloat I have no idea. I am just mortified at the thought that he went from flipping the bird to Google to getting on his knees for Apple. Maybe he never was a hacker to begin with. Just like all the other fake Silicon Valley founders, he probably hired Ukrainians or Indians to do the real computer work. I’m not saying I can compete on the coder stage, but I’d never pretend to be that either.

Speaking of unnecessarily bloated monstrosities that aren’t worth what they claim: Spotify.

The actual value of radio is owning the airwaves. Verizon, Comcast, and T-Mobile are all perfectly capable of striking an ASCAP & BMI deal to distribute (and fairly, easily pay royalties) for all the music in the world, just like Ek did. It’s not novel or unique anymore, even if it ever was. Ek did a deal with the labels and made it impossible for artists to actually know how much they’re worth. The telecoms could do deals with the royalty collection agencies and give the world more fairly priced music with less annoying advertisers and tasteless computer nerds getting in the way.

There are a lot of independently owned terrestrial radio stations out there. If somebody were to buy up a bunch of them and invest properly, they might even be able to quickly scale up a national competitor to the current ISP’s and phone providers. We live in a world where people trust the PayPal guy to get them to Mars. But you are reading this doubting whether or not Verizon could figure out how to restructure themselves to be able to give their users all on-demand music like Spotify?

NOTHING is proprietary about Spotify AT ALL. I don’t care what they think, say, or have nd convinced themselves they did a good thing. Just because metrics claim music performs well – it doesn’t.

If Lil’ Nas X had to actually compete with other artists in the genre fairly, the kid would never have even gotten through the door. I mean Nas is in his name. There is already a Hip-Hop legend named Nas, who is worth a lot to his publishers. You think they allowed that to happen without getting some kind of royalty? I do not have the time nor resources to prove this, and it might be protected information publishers use to do their business. You’d only find out if this marketing deception did harm.

Spotify is in a position to be a label but they have no flavor, taste, talent, or desire to make good music so they don’t or won’t or can’t. That’s a bummer, because they have a lot of fans – of their ability to let the user be their own DJ. But the payola is outta controla, and neither Ek nor his buddy Martin have the courage to do anything new. The company can stay afloat on broken legs forever so long as their ownership funds it and they can convince the public now & again that they’re essential.

Meta vs. Reality (Reality Wins Every Time)

The only question you need to ask Mark Zuckerberg, is “where do the servers live?”

Because the servers have to exist in reality, to run the metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg claims he wants. Hang on a second here, though. Do you realize that virtual reality is not a new idea, and the graphics that Meta has produced are not even better than what existed in the 90’s. Just like cryptocurrencies, this is an idea that just isn’t worth it. Like, have you ever had an idea that was dumb? Of course.

But nobody tells these rich assholes that they’re wrong. Or if you do, they had previously been in financially protected bubbles where they didn’t have to succeed or even really try. That’s why people like Tim Cook are so detached from reality. I don’t think that guy has ever struggled whatsoever, and if he has, it’s been a long time. There is nothing worth $2.2 Trillion about Apple, for starters. But if there actually is? Tim Cook has nothing to do with it from a technology standpoint.

You know there’s no real competition among these thieves because if there was, Apple would have done social media forever ago. They already had so many users and an anti-competitive relationship with their only competitor (Samsung) so why not just offer a way for their users to talk to each other via the already-existing cell phone plan those customers must have? Verification would be a lot easier. It would be a lot more secure. But I’d never trust Apple with that now would you?

Slave labor. Suicide nets at factories. Being in bed with the Chinese government naturally. The legacy of Steve Jobs? Anti-competitive relationship with Microsoft too. The list goes on. But back to Meta, and Zuckerberg. This guy (Zuckerberg) lost over $100,000,000,000 in personal net worth in the last year. He is never going to get that back, either. I don’t know what he was doing with his money, but I’m assuming he has debt & obligations. Those will be bouncing soon. Look out.

Apple Is A Cancerous Cesspool Destroying Every Major American Index’s Credibility

A $2.2 Trillion company with $50 Billion cash on hand is undercapitalized by about 95% in a market where people may need to liquidate their stock in order to pay mortgages they own banks – especially those people who lost money in the recent crypto blow-up. In other words, after the crypto margin calls, will come mortgage margin calls, and then stock margin calls. This is not a linear transactional process, though, so the order of operations may change.

I’m talking about the prioritization of debt, collateral, and obligations. At the end of the day, people need money to live. They will have a house foreclose, and go into bankruptcy, before they give creditors money they need to eat.

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