Apple CEO Tim Cook and Twitter CEO Elon Musk They met yesterday at Apple Park, according to Musk in your new social network. A meeting that comes shortly after Musk slammed Apple on various issues, including the right to free speech.
The two CEOs had a little-reported conversation, but what little has been done is good news for Twitter. A bit of calm in a really tense situation we’ve been going through the past few days, which now seems clearer. Let’s look at the events chronologically.
Nothing beats a face-to-face conversation to clarify the situation
Three days ago, Elon Musk tweeted, “Do you hate free speech?” claiming that Apple was Drastically reduce your advertising spend on the social networksomething disastrous for Blue Bird, for which Apple is estimated to account for 4% of sales.
While Apple spent a staggering $84,000 on advertising on the day Musk tweeted this, estimates are that Apple’s ad spending will increase soon after, rather than the other way around claimed Musk that Apple threatened to remove Twitter from the App Store. some of that Musk complained that “they didn’t tell them why”.
The situation continued to heat up when Musk claimed so “Apple should publicize all of its censorship policies affecting its customers”. And now, after meeting Tim Cook at Apple Park, it looks like this The Twitter boss clearly saw that the situation was and is very different. For his part, Tim Cook has started to follow to Elon Musk on Twitter.
the same Musk claims that there had been a “good conversation”. Among other things, we cleared up the misconception about the ability to remove Twitter from the App Store. Tim made it clear that Apple never considered this.“. Musk also deleted some tweets with allegations against Apple and said thank you to Tim Cook, “for the tour of the beautiful Apple offices”.
Musk’s shift in attitude toward Apple is certainly notable. It is clear that there is no such thing as a fluent conversation, in this case personal Postures are cleared and the tension almost completely disappears. We will see how the situation develops from now on.
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