Many years ago, I read a few interviews with the CEO and founder of a company whose work I admired. I also knew the guy, and liked him. Always decent and polite. He was the inventor of the tech, and he’d spent 10 years perfecting it. He knew it inside-out, better than anyone alive. And even with that depth of knowledge, his answers were absolutely scripted. I could tell, because reading two interviews side-by-side showed the same answers to vaguely similar questions. That’s when I first realized the difference between knowing one’s stuff and conveying it to the public. Even this guy wouldn’t improvise. His company had a brand to build.
So yes, any CEO’s answers are often prepared, and their skill in “answering” lies in fitting a scripted answer to a question. Much like politics.
I’m going to check this out. I’ve never come across it before. I’m mostly going over what I saw with Everyday Astronaut (who is absolutely in the TANK for Musk).
Again, I’m not defending the guy, I was simply impressed he could do multi-hour tours with people and seem to hold his own with some very detailed questions. I’ll check out that link!
I think that it is more that they decided to leverage “oh! If you buy blue with an Apple ID that’s our verification, right there, because Apple has already vetted them!”
But they don’t, for whatever reason, trust the Play store to the same degree, and they are completely wrong about how verification works if you allow anyone to create any handle rather than one that only matches their legal name it’s dumb all the way down
I assume that anyone could talk about rockets to the degree that Elon does if they spend enough time listening to what Tom Mueller (the real engineer behind spaceX) tells them. Interesting to see how things go now that he has left)
IMHO, I don’t think it has anything to do with global access. statistics show that iOS users spend far more on apps, and in-app purchases, than android users due in part to this distribution into affluent countries. Since his focus is almost entirely on turning a quick buck, it was natural to focus on the group with the most disposable income first, even if they are only a small part of the overall userbase. This is a big part of why “ios first” is still a thing even though they are not the majority of the market, where app revenue matters.
According to The Vergecast the reason given was that it was seen as a shortcut to verification, but they did not say anything else about it. It makes sense (as an explanation, not as a thing to do) since the android Twitter App is mature and they could have added the ability to pay for Twitter Blue to it just as easily as the iOS app
I very much take your point about iOS users probably being on average more affluent (and more likely to throw 8 bucks at Lone Skum).
But it IS about access if the blue tick was only offered to iOS users.
You’re dropping $100k or more on an education. You’re going to buy a computer that will make it the whole 4-5 years, not one every year. That computer is (still) a Mac.
Or anything. We’re really lucky cats don’t have thumbs or we’d be fucked. AND they’d be following Musk on Twitter going “Yeah, this guy gets it, moving fast and breaking stuff is so us, man. Pass me the 'nip.”
