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Come on Tim Apple. Do it. You know it’s the right thing to do
Actually, with Google recently losing in court where Apple had previously won because Google was exempting some developers from its App Store rules; Apple might be actually inclined to actually enforce its rules in X’s case lest they suffer the same fate
Tim Apple is like the only positive thing that came out of Trump's mouth/presidency, except for
very legal, very cool
perfect phone calls
gushing about chocolate cake while bombing ~~Iraq~~ Syria
big, red button for Diet Coke room service in White House
Idk man.
Trump was easily the most comedically entertaining president. Like, not in a good way. Like, cofveve or whatever wtf?
I'll present you with Shane Gillis doing a bit
K I still need someone to sit down with me and explain the whole "Covfefe" thing
Edit: in homeopathic sized doses, he is objectively hilarious and tolerable. But his word salads make me ~~wanna~~ needa self-cannabinalize
It was a tweet. He tweeted this absolute nonsense and everyone was like "wtf is he on drugs?"
That's it.
Bush Jr's asinine ramblings were funnier IMO. "Now watch this drive" lives in my head rent free.
Meatball Ron is pretty funny. Normally his nicknames for people are fucking stupid.
Covfefe has been a pretty fun word, as well as referring to "Mooch" as a unit of time.
Former President Drink Bleach was a source of many quips or words, good words for those reading along at a 4th grade level...
While you may be right, it’s more likely to be the optics of being associated to this… person that will be the deciding factor.
Apple did remove Parler from the App Store in the past due to lack of moderation. It did not end well for Parler. I don't know how badly it has gotten over there on Twitter though. Is Twitter reaching the Parler level of toxicity yet?
Musk just hsoted a space with Ramaswamy, Andrew Tate, Matt Gaetz, and Alex Jones
How do you think that went down? My prejudice tells me it was probably racist and xenophobic AF and probably included some dog whistles
Yikes. That's a four horsemen of deplorables. What a horrible echo chamber of depravity.
Thought Tate was in prison? And WTF would he do that for?
He was under house arrest for a few months for investigation and now he is confined to Romania while the trial is pending. Romanian laws.
Why do you think? He's a right wing fascist asshole
Was that the one where Ramaswamy didn't cut the mic to take a leak and some assistant had to beg him to turn it off himself because it couldn't be muted by anyone else?
If so, I have to think the noise of someone pissing was probably the most consistently honest part of the entire event.
Just kill it please, People will be much better off on the Fediverse both mentally and to get away from bigots like Musk.
I've never even thought of Twitter's reliance on App Stores. It's hilarious how many hands Elon is biting. It's impossible to keep track of.
I'm not holding my breath here. People seem far too willing to put up with stuff they wouldn't otherwise because it's Twitter. Far too many news orgs still point people to Twitter accounts.
Even my favorite email newsletters and blog sites still point to twitter.
It's kinda frustrating to click a link then immediately, a giant "log in to see more".
Speaking as a former reddit mod still atoning for my sins, I can say with confidence that the answer to the question: "what would happen if a reddit mod had actual power that mattered?"
Is simply this: Elon Musk would happen.
“Stoning for my sins” see now this is how you get people excited about a religion.
It was a strange autocorrect at the time of writing, but I am properly stoned now so perhaps it was prophetic.
A bit ironic that under any other circumstances people would be crying out about how Apple has too much power to censor and control apps among a large chunk of the population.
that's a totally fair claim. This time it's "okay" because the far right is being banned. But we shouldn't let that distract us from the fact that two private mega corporations can censor any social media or journal they want.
(they would only be banning the app and not the actual website, but so many tech illiterate people can't tell the difference)
Cue Phony Stark making his own X Phone.
He’ll just buy some Chinese OEM phone and slap the dumb logo on it. And his audience of moronic fans erupts…
Doubtful. I don't think he wanted Twitter any more than Trump actually wanted to be president the first time around.
I think he wanted to fuck with them to tank their stock for the lolz and he got himself harnessed to them like a dumb ass, and now he's killing it as artlessly as he acquired it.
He made the claim back in 2022
Granted, still doesn’t mean anything exactly.
Although, it would make the most sense for him if Xitter got banned. He could have all of his shitcoin financial doings on there, and have Grok as its AI assistant. Truth Social built right in, Alex Jones built in, Cucker Tarlson content built in; all that. Instead of having everything China has all in one app, just put it all on the X phone.
The Far Right would buy them in droves and droves.
I could see either of these things happening:
If i'm seeing this article on Bloomberg, someone peeped off the record. Xitter is in for a world of pain.
X marked the spot
Hold it in place, Tim, and I'll get my hammer.
With the reinstatement of Alex Jones on X this week, Elon Musk is playing with fire. Precedent suggests X is teetering on the brink of a ban for violating Malus Inc.’s App Store rules, which would be the final nail in the coffin for the platform formerly known as Twitter. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook will be watching closely and hoping desperately it doesn’t come to that.
Jones reappeared on X over the weekend, brought back by Musk after polling his followers. His return comes five years after Jones’ mix of chaotic and toxic misinformation and hatred was deemed too much for Twitter and several other tech platforms. In the time since, Jones has mostly faded from the mainstream, only making the news when a judge ordered him to pay $1.5 billion to the families of children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Jones had claimed the massacre was a staged plot using actors.
Is this seriously the entire article? Wow...
Why would Tim Cook be concerned about banning Twitter?
Doubtful.
Someone should make an app that post Alex Jones tweets. Nothing else either, no fancy U.I either, just text messages matching tweets from twitter. If Apple banned the app or never released it, the developer could in theory sue Apple because they aren’t doing anything to prevent it on twitter.
