Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over OpenAI partnership
Hours after Apple announced a partnership with OpenAI, Tesla CEO Elon Musk threatened to ban its devices from his companies.
Do it. I dare ya. Keep digging. It's fun watching the hole get deeper while you disappear into the darkness.
No, no. Dig up, stupid!
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So how does this man being an executive officer not immediately send a company's stocks into the shitter at this point?
I don't know if this explains the entire price but we have all seen his securities fraud on Twitter.
There's money to be made when you know a company is going to tank. In fact there are people who specialize in bankrupting companies. When rich people commit fraud they don't get in trouble
Sunk cost fallacy.
He's a hypocrite, and a piece of shit. Stop listening to him. Stop reading his tweets. Stop giving him any attention at all. He's dirt under our boots and deserves nothing more.
I use a filter on Mastodon so I can limit how much Elon Musk headlines I see. People love to talk about him, I mean here we are.....but at least with the filter I can tune out the noise most of the time. It's blissful. A shame there's no filters (that I know of) on Lemmy to hide asshats like this. I already know Musk is a POS, I don't need to see a dozen articles every single day to remind me.....
Good points! I’ll have to do the same on Mastodon.
Some of the Lemmy apps have keyword filters. I'm using Thunder, but I know some others have it too. No clue if there's anything for desktop though.
Eternity, Boost, and Connect have a post filter option. Which client are you using? It's Muted Words on Boost.
Gonna find out real quick that Apple is more important to people than Twitter.
Ah hah! But is it more important than X?!
Yes. Nobody gives a shit about X.
This doesn't specify X, so it's probably Tesla too, except I seriously doubt this threat is serious, because banning iPhone integration from Tesla, would probably hurt Tesla sales, and hurt Tesla and Musk 1000 times more than Apple.
Not for me. Use neither, occasionally follow a Twitter link.
Me: Hates musk.
Also me: dislikes Apple.
Still me: See's this story as Musk doing another stupid thing to kill more business on both ends.
Finally me: Yessss......this news pleases me.
What does he think, Apple is going to release a keynote tomorrow with Tim Cook saying “ah, my bad, Elon doesn’t like it so we’re rolling it back”. And if he blocks Apple devices from Viewing Xitter, they’ll finally move on to other platforms which will potentially cut his user base in half.
Can we make a global Lemmy compact to stop calling it Xitter and instead call it Shitter?
They're the same word.
Shitter is an actual app on F-droid. It's a mastodon client.
The X is pronounced Shi in Mandarin
So it is basically the same
I'm not gonna click the link (no hits for anything Elon), but the headline says he's banning devices from his companies, so his employees will have to use anything but Apple...is what it sounds like.
He’s trying to bring attention to his ongoing campaign to show that OpenAI are somehow evil crooks that cheated him and are going to destroy the world. He projects much.
It'll get fun if he decides to cut Apple devices off Starlink.
Do people just use the Starlink router without their own firewall behind it?
Never in my life have I ever used the AP/switch function of the supplied router. That fucking thing can live outside my network, I don't trust an ISP to wipe their ass after shitting, let alone keep a router updated.
Honestly, this is a good take, SatansMaggotyCumFart.
Sorry about that.
yay for net neutrality laws
Do it. I dare you
Please stop posting about every fart that asshole makes ...
Please stop whining about it.
This one is tricky, because Lemmy hates both Musk and AI.
Let them fight lol
Musk banning Apple devices with how popular iPhones are to use twitter would hurt Musk more than it would hurt either Apple or OpenAI so it just sounds like a win win.
He's saying he'll ban them from his company, like employees in offices. He's not saying he'll ban users from using Apple devices.
Musk raised $6 billion in a recent funding round for his would-be OpenAI competitor, xAI, whose first product, Grok, is meant to serve as a politically incorrect answer to ChatGPT. In addition to Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, Musk is founder of brain interface startup Neuralink and tunneling venture Boring Company.
Seems pretty straightforward to me.
I think AI can be good its just being fumbled so hard right now
I think it can be useful but it's overvalued right now
Are you saying Musk isn't AI?
Lemmy seems to hate any new technology, I've noticed.
Personally I've found GPT to be extremely useful as a search engine replacement, especially the implementations that cite their sources. That way you can actually fact check instead of wondering if it's a hallucination. It helps me rely on reddit a lot less to find answers. I love that it's being integrated with Windows. Makes finding files a lot easier, even easier than using Everything search.
Lemmy also hates crypto. They call it a scam, despite the fact that it's now being traded on the stock market (BTC and soon to be ETH). I turned $12k into $36k, just by buying small amounts of BTC every paycheck since COVID started. I buy everything with crypto; there are Visa debit cards you can use to spend it. Crypto gave me enough financial wiggle room that I no longer worry about losing my job. Yet it's a "scam". Give me a fucking break.
Lemmy hates HDR. Every time I mention the reason why I haven't switched to Linux yet is because of poor HDR support in KDE, I get ridiculed. "Why would you want your monitor brighter and more colorful? Mine's bright and colorful enough", failing to realize just how much more realistic "brighter and more colorful" makes an image appear. With a proper 1000 nit OLED display, it feels more like looking out of a window than staring at a monitor. Like going from a black and white to color TV. One of those things that you can't go back on once you get used to it.
And although not a new technology, per se don't even get me started on how much Lemmy hates cars. But I feel like I've ranted on long enough so I'm just going to stop talking here before my inbox blows up.
You are absolutely wrong.
GPT: Yes it is very usefull, but it got that usefull by being trained on data that user's would not accept if they knew about it.
Crypto is a scam, the only reason it hold any value is because other people belive it holds the value. The data that is mined is absolutely useless, it is litteraly a stribg of numbers in a very particular order that serves no other fuction other than to represent itself. Crypto is insanely power inefficient and is slow to transfer money.
HDR is comming, it takes time, yes, in the mean time, HDR is a nice to have, it is not a critical peice of technology, stop bragplaining about your nice monitor and just ignore the threads about why you have not switched yet.
Hating cars is not Lemmy specific, but a growing sentiment of younger generations fewling hopeless for their future when pollution doesn't stop, and public transport is a feaver dream for the younger generations in the US. Just block the fuck cars community and move on.
Do it. Do a flip!
Ah, they guy who tried to get Paypal to switch to running on Windows strikes again.
paypal deserves to run on windows
Both paths lead to the same destination inundated with AI ads and tracking.
I hate paypal because they're transphobic.
See, I made a paypal account long after changing my legal name, and I made the account under my current legal name. They asked for a birth certificate to prove my identity, so I gave them one. I have an amended birth certificate from when I changed my name that lists both my deadname and my current legal name. When Paypal saw my birth certificate, they changed the name on my account to my deadname, even though the paperwork clearly stated it wasn't my legal name. When I complained to them, they told me I had to submit change of name paperwork to change the name on my account. Well I never changed my name while I had a paypal account! They did! I just wanted it un-changed to what it was before. If I need to submit change of name paperwork to fix their mistake, why didn't they need paperwork to change it away from my legal name in the first place?
Pigeon CEO. Flies in, shits on everything, then flies out.
Or like the one at my house, takes up a roost in a hanging flowerpot and refuses to leave even when you take the flowerpot down to do planting.
(Yes, this is happening right now, no we did not disturb mama bird's nest, no need to send in the feds.)
Musk has tantrum. Just another day ending in y.
But every day ends wi... oh. OH.
He's pissing his pants because nobody will want to use Grok
Do it you man baby!
Wait so will he ban Android because they have Gemini?
He has a vendetta against OpenAI as he tried to take it over and they wanted no part of that if I recall correctly
Here's the story for those interested: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23654701/openai-elon-musk-failed-takeover-report-closed-open-source
I ordered a ton of popcorn. Please don't let me down Elon.
This'll end up just like the Microsoft/Netscape Navigator antitrust suit where Microsoft got broken up and sued out of existence for trying to suffocate Netscape Navigator by denying it access to the Windows Operating System. Netscape, originally the underdog, super-won and turned into Mozilla which is now a multi-trillion dollar company that provides a shining beacon of consumer rights done right.
Oh wait, I just remembered: Netscape died and barely anything changed—only the public ever really loses. Billionaires paying thousands of dollars in fines to fight for their turn to shit on their customers.
You had me in the first half
I know it's a common meme but it still annoys me. Netscape's own JWZ wrote about how Netscape destroyed itself. I have personal experience with Netscape being full of itself, buggy, and forcing myself and all other small isp owners (which were over 50% of the market at the time) to ship Internet Explorer CDs to customers despite our really wanting to ship Netscape.
Yes, Netscape really shot themselves in the foot with their premium browser and then shit in the wound with Communicator. All that Microsoft contributed was forcing people not to work with the septic poo-footed browser, but getting caught up in that kind of detail would have made people stop reading my comment. Gotta farm every sweet little upvote I can get so that my family will finally be proud of me when they print my karma in my obituary.
He already removed Disney+ from the screens on Tesla's because they pulled advertising from Twitter.
Wait what? Did he really? I’ve driving my model 3 for 2 years and never noticed Disney+- was missing. Now that I think about it, I didn’t notice it was there to begin with.
It’s not on the screen, but if you go to Disney+ in the web browser the app will reappear.
Also if you’ve already signed into the app it stays.
He better not touch Apple Music!!
Lol, so his entire demand was completely toothless? I'm shocked, everyone... Shocked!
Who the fuck was watching Disney on their fucking car screen? Seriously... What?!
Sometimes you just have to wait and its handy. We've used it for multi hour ferry waits and or the rides if we don't want to leave the vehicle.
Peoples kids.
Musk raised $6 billion in a recent funding round for his would-be OpenAI competitor, xAI, whose first product, Grok, is meant to serve as a politically incorrect answer to ChatGPT. In addition to Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, Musk is founder of brain interface startup Neuralink and tunneling venture Boring Company.
In case anybody is wondering why he's making a big deal out of it.
As to why emoji feels the need to make his own "anti-woke" AI, it's because he thinks that, at some point in the future, our AI overlords will decide to cull white people to meet "forced diversity quotas." I'm not kidding.
Ah yes, his legendary anti-woke ai
I love how he can't even bigot right.
"Grok" really says everything that needs to be said about this farce, isn't it?
560 BC - Oracle of Delphi: Croesus, if you make war on the Persians, you will destroy a mighty empire.
2024 AD - Oracle of Delphi: Elon, if you make war on Apple, you will destroy a mighty empire.
Me: Yes, Elon, do it. Do it now!
I understood that reference.
Please do. Keep making headlines for self-destruction.
My go-to comment for every Musk headline never fails:
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Do it coward. Keep kicking that removed down the relevance hill. I want to see that bird's mutilated carcass at your feet so you can look stupid(er) and blame somebody else some more.
He's just butthurt that he can't get xAI off the ground.
“Tim didn’t even ask me about Grok”
I have a theory that this guy tried his own implant tech which terribly failed and left permanent brain damage. it’s one way to explain the sudden and progressing unhingedness
When do you think that might have happened? Because he's been a documented dick for a long, long, longer time than most media give him credit for.
he was a dick as far back as when he bought tesla, maybe 15 years ago by now. know someone who worked there back then. said it was a nightmare dealing with musk's ego, even many layers down in the pyramid
Alternatively, and more realistically: drugs.
More precisely: coke
It seems more likely you progressed to see who he actually is rather than him losing “it”
This should be interesting.
Lemmy users: Hate on everything that isn't Linux.
Lemmy doesn't hate AI, just dumb implementations of it
I don't hate the technology, I hate that I cannot chose where and when to use it. Consent is quite important.
Let 'em kill each other.
Imagine doing an antitrust violation when you don't even have the market clout for a payoff in the first place.
I forgot about that angle. That should be an amusing lawsuit. Hopefully it takes another few bi££ion from his $orry a$$.
doesn't he use an iphone?
Watching people struggle to choose between the tesla t and the apple apple would be so satisfying for me.
What are they going to use instead? Windows, which also has an OpenAI partnership? Android, which had Gemini and probably even worse privacy?
Or is the whole company switching to Linux and Linux mobile
Switching to Linux Mobile would be a welcome change, imagine them heading a FOSS Linux distro to run on phones
He called the software integration between the two companies “an unacceptable security violation,” and said Apple has “no clue what’s actually going on.”
I’d be very surprised if corporates wouldn’t just be able to disable it in MDM for their worker’s phones. Not sure it’s Apple who has ‘no clue’ here.
Yep, this seems like the exact kind of thing companies would enforce with MDM.
I know one of my previous companies would enforce certain settings were changed if you wanted to install the MDM profile on a BYOD phone (like minimum 8 digit PIN), so requiring you to opt out of OpenAI Siri integration seems like a policy MDMs would offer.
(Though I would never install a company’s MDM profile on my personal phone lol - if they want me to be accessible and have work apps, they can provide a separate work phone)
oh noes
Always amusing to watch him throw a temper tantrum
Hopefully Apple counter-threatens with Xitter ban from their devices
That would actually be a figurative nail in the coffin for X. Apple idiots love X.
Musk the Butthurt Billionaire whines again. More news at 11.
Bluffing like a sum removed
Elon contemplating an xPhone powered by crypto and NFTs.
With memes and fart sounds.
Yet another childish tantrum? Wow, is it another day ending with "y" already? How time flies...
Do it you pathetic spoiled manchild, stop flapping your gums and actually bloody do it.
Lol. All your employees would fucking quit.
I'm sure the richest company in the world is super worried about this threat.
lol yeah I'm going to stick to Apple.. As long as Apple cares about security, I'll continue to use their products. IDGAF about Tesla or X, quite frankly.
hell yeah do it
Break up monopolies.
No no musk, you're supposed to only piss off the poors remember?
This fucking idiot... Welcome to a year ago, you douchebag. You're not wrong, you're just slow.