Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Would you buy the Elon Phone?”.
Okay, yeah, so we’re doing uh apple a day keeps Elon away the the weekly Twitter thing which insane stuff happened today, so I don’t think we’re gon na be able to have it. Oh, I didn’t see any of the stuff that happened today or are we talking about him, uh the Twitter dominating Kanye, again, no okay, that was yesterday. Oh okay, Twitter had some. I don’t know enough about it.
I said in the pre-show we weren’t going to have this in the show and we won’t properly have this in the show. I bet because I I think covering this right now would be really difficult. Yeah. That’S just not, then that’s fine Twitter released a bunch of Internal Documentation, oh okay, from before about how they dealt with certain things in the past. That’S all I know about.
I don’t want to talk about anymore, just because I don’t know enough, and I don’t want to say the wrong stuff got it um on Monday, at 9 35 a.m. Elon tweets Apple has them has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America? What a jump um 10 43 a.m. Elon adds Apple, has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why.
At 109 pm he wrote the Twitter files on Free Speech, suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself. The public deserves to know what really happened that was released today. That’S what he’s referencing um spicy today Elon said he’s going to be publishing what really happened with the hunter Biden story – suppression at 5 PM eastern time, but it needed some last minute fact checking. The thread was finally published by Matt.
I don’t know how to say his last name. I apologize Matt Tybee, I think at 6 34 PM Eastern Time last Friday, podcaster Liz wheeler tweeted, suggesting that Apple and Google boot Twitter from their app stores Elon should produce. If they did that Elon should produce his own smartphone. Half the country would happily ditch the iPhone and Android to which Elon responded.
Yes, if there’s no other choice, I will make an alternative phone Linus dang. Oh hey! That’S me early Tuesday morning called The Bluff of those who claimed they’d totally switched to a musk vone uh. Were he to make one also effective Wednesday. Twitter is yeah no longer enforcing the covid-19 misleading information policy. Why uh don’t forget? In the early days of the pandemic, Elon tweeted that the coronavirus virus pen, uh Panic, is dumb.
I didn’t want to say that out loud, because if you chop off the beginning, then I said it uh Wednesday, 12 26 PM Elon tweeted, a video from Apple Park. Captioned thanks at Tim Cook, for taking me around Apple’s, beautiful, HQ good conversation. Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter, potentially being removed from the App Store.
Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so all right this week in Twitter, wow, wow, wow, wow wow One does not simply make a phone yeah. The problem is not making the phone making the phone is the super actually relatively easy part. You cannot source that, like there’s a man, I could probably have the chat bot print me out some instructions for how to make a phone um. The issue is, the issue is getting people to adopt the ecosystem, and that’s why I don’t.
I don’t foresee a way to break the current duopoly. Honestly, like it’s, it’s re, it is different than before. There have been incumbents before Nokia was a huge, huge incumbent. Uh Blackberry was a huge incumbent and both of them were so big that it looked just.
It sounded ridiculous right when Apple launched the iPhone, but what Apple got right and what Apple has done right in multiple markets now be it personal, computers or smartphones or whatever else it is. Is they built the app ecosystem that drives people to not just buy the product? That’S not the that’s, not the hard part. The hard part is to get them locked into an ecosystem so that they can never buy another product. How are so many people you’ll ask them, you know why don’t you consider anything other than an iPhone to be? I can’t live without X, and that really is in at least in their mind anyway.
It is that black and white. I cannot live without a feature or an app or the peace of mind. They get from. You know, Apple being the one that holds all of their personal information or or whatever whatever it is right.
Um iking RPG says what, if they just do, what Amazon did and make a fork of Android without Google play? Well, then, they better be prepared to subsidize the crap out of that Hardware, because nobody wants it like look at how cheap Kindle devices are or fire devices are. I actually talk about that in the video that we did on the Logitech gcloud uh. There’S a lot of people that look at the G Cloud, which is 350 regular price, but it’s been promoed to 299 a couple times already, so I suspect it’s going to end up at 299, but the gcloud is a is a streaming only uh Android, handset um And people are like – oh yeah, I’d love to have one of these, but logitech’s out to lunch with the pricing it’s going to be 200 or even some people, it’s going to be a hundred dollars. It’S got to be nothing, you did it costs what it costs to make you can’t you can’t make it for a retail price of a hundred dollars, but at that level of quality it just it’s nice that you’d like to have that, but it doesn’t matter what You’D like to have, because it’s just not reality, um, and so one of the things I brought up in the video is the only exception to that is fire tablets because they really are shockingly affordable and the reason they’re shockingly affordable is because they’re basically useless.
Without that Prime subscription that Amazon uses to subsidize the cost of that tablet over time. So unless Twitter blue really takes off – or I mean if they manage to turn Twitter into an everything, app I’ll uh WeChat and they could count on ongoing Revenue, there’s just no way that the the the the price of this device would make any sense whatsoever for Its functionality and honestly I I mean this – might be one of those things like. I don’t see anyone ever using Bitcoin for anything. You know like nine years ago or whatever on land show um.
You know since then houses entire Industries anyway. This might be one of those things that I completely get wrong, but I don’t see an everything app like a WeChat existing outside of an authoritarian regime like China, because the only like, if you’ve ever used WeChat have you ever used WeChat. No, I haven’t I’ve seen you use it, but sucks it’s terrible. It looks like it was made in 2012.. Every time I’ve seen you use it, I’m like what is that it actually operates like garbage yeah, and so I’m looking at it going the only the only possible the only possible way that this is out competing.
Everything is if there ain’t no real competition for it. Right and so to look at something like a WeChat and go yeah, I’m going to reproduce that in in North America or in Europe, it does help that they already have a massive amount of market share and people hating on Twitter is just giving them a wildly. Huger market share, which was a end point of this – that I I mean I called the Twitter not going down thing.
While there was armies of people saying it was going to fall in days all type of stuff yeah, I didn’t think it was going to get like way. Bigger um. I thought people were gon na stop using it um, not the case I mean it can be one than the other, so this is no.
This is far from that’s fair enough. It’S been a while now Saga. Hasn’T it been like a month. I will. I can tell you okay, so there’s a couple of things that I’ve noticed. Um one is that I’m getting way more engagement on Twitter than I used to um either I’m like awesomer or not all of it is real. So that’s one thing that I’ve noticed: okay and I’ve also started to check my my, like my my recommended, my trending less, and the reason is that it has gotten worse, um interesting.
One of the things that was trending for me today was something something Trudeau Trader pipeline, Germany or something. I have definitely noticed that the Canadian trending has gone extremely right wing yeah and the entire. The entire thread was single tweets, with basically no interaction. With this same picture and this same headline just just trending viewing the this this phrase into into the Canadian Twitter sphere – I will say: yeah Twitter trending – has always been useless. In my opinion, I have found it to be basically that forever I’ve, never I’ve never found it to be useful for me. Maybe it’s because I’ve clicked on drama then, because I’ve been interested in just the ridiculous drama.
That’S been going down on the platform lately yeah. I don’t know so, maybe it just has no way of kind of coming. Back from that. I don’t know, I don’t know yeah either way, um I’m on I’m I mean I’m in I’m, I’m down for the ride. Like that’s that’s sort of our thing is we don’t jump on to every new flash in the pan platform? I’M glad I never invested any serious energy in Vine or periscope um. I’M not planning to invest any serious energy in Tick Tock. I think it’s finite um. Yes, you’re doing some stuff, though right like yeah, I I haven’t touched it: okay, yeah yeah, like our social team, put some stuff on there, we’re monetizing it as long as it’s like sustainable.
Then I’m kind of sitting here going okay yeah as long as money, money out equals or is greater than money in then sounds good, yeah, fine sure yeah, let’s uh, but we don’t. We don’t just like jump on to a new social media platform. I I tend to be a late goer and once we’re in, though I mean we’re pretty heavily invested in Twitter, we make money on Twitter, so we’re kind of – I don’t know. Okay, yeah sure, and I even said like Twitter, blue, I’m not gon na buy it. Personally, but if it makes sense for the business, yeah sure sure I’ll do it, I also find it interesting, like people hate on Elon super hard, fair enough, but they don’t seem to hate on other people doing like just as bad things that aren’t as public. Well, that’s honestly, his biggest problem is that he never shuts up. He just talks about it too much yeah, because people don’t care. If you don’t talk about it, as far as I can tell yeah so like well, the news cycle is not even it’s not even a 24-hour news cycle anymore. It’S like oh 45, minute news cycle, Wild which, like we were talking about Michelle I was like hey.
Is anyone even still talking about the Balenciaga thing, like the amount of outrage there was over that end, rightfully so uh and it just almost entirely gone evaporated in the? In the wake of you know, uh Kanye West declaring his love for Hitler like yeah, yeah yeah. Pretty much – and I told like the Balenciaga thing, tons of additional horrific information came out about it, but the train had passed yeah so like almost like Valencia and the like weird edgy, like person who actually seemed to be the coordinator for the campaign, seems to have Just flown completely under the radar here like I don’t know that they’ll get a lot of work in that industry like like, obviously within that, I think nothing is changing, oh really in regards to that. From from the from the very I don’t know if I would call it credible information that I have so I I don’t know, I’m not claiming anything specific but like I don’t think anyone cares because they were never really widely targeted.
They weren’t a part of that very temporary snowball sure um. I just want to jump in codependent. I know you’re like a paying subscriber on float plane, but I do got to call you out here: uh, the kids would have absolutely zero context to know that was sexual. I don’t see how they were harmed at all.
That’S exactly the point. They don’t understand. That’S why you may not do that. That’S why the fact that they cannot consent to it is the reason that that’s not okay, just wan na jump in and make sure that that’s dealt with there are times where opinions are incorrect, yeah.
That was one of them. .