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@WholeMarsBlog Normally, competitive pressure would force Apple to lower fees, but Apple & Android have a duopoly on phones. When interface familiarity is taken into account, it’s basically a monopoly. The effective 30% sales tax Apple charges is hidden from users or there would be an outcry.

@RenataKonkoly @WholeMarsBlog Top feature request for sure

@WholeMarsBlog Actually, I like & use Apple products. They are just obviously overcharging with App Store. I mean 30% fees for doing almost zero incremental work is completely unreasonable. Epic wouldn’t bother processing their own payments if App Store fees were fair.

@spacex360 GAO 💪

Apple app store fees are a de facto global tax on the Internet. Epic is right.

@JamesClayton5 @markgurman @tim_cook Cook & I have never spoken or written to each other ever. There was a point where I requested to meet with Cook to talk about Apple buying Tesla. There were no conditions of acquisition proposed whatsoever. He refused to meet. Tesla was worth about 6% of today’s value.

@markgurman @tim_cook Higgins managed to make his book both false *and* boring 🤣🤣

@muratpak @archillect Maximum set of possible future actions

@Teslarati @ResidentSponge Only thing beyond ludicrous is Plaid

@OttogiBeefCurry @waitbutwhy Haha

Prometheus Unbound https://t.co/mlagF9mUUb

@PPathole @Tesla Exactly

@WholeMarsBlog A lot

@WholeMarsBlog This should be clear to anyone who has experienced the FSD beta evolution. Self-driving requires solving a major part of real-world AI, so it’s an insanely hard problem, but Tesla is getting it done. AI Day will be great.

@WorldAndScience We are a pattern of ancient atoms

@RationalEtienne @thesheetztweetz @BryceSpaceTech @SpaceX @roscosmos @Arianespace @ArianeGroup @northropgrumman @RocketLab @ulalaunch @VirginOrbit @torybruno Mass to orbit is the fundamental metric for making life multiplanetary

@thesheetztweetz @BryceSpaceTech @SpaceX @roscosmos @Arianespace @ArianeGroup @northropgrumman @RocketLab @ulalaunch @VirginOrbit @torybruno Upmass is what matters. One Starship will lift what all Falcons did in Q2 on a single flight.

@austinbarnard45 Indeed, there are some giant mosquitoes around here!

@DJSnM So many tubes …

@Erdayastronaut Raptor V2.0 is a major improvement in simplication, while also increasing thrust from ~185 tons to ~230 tons. Long-term goal is engine cost below $1000/ton of thrust.