Naaaah, Google wouldn't cancel it until it has a huge loyal userbase. They're fueled by disappointment, that's how you get the most bang for your buck.
"Vibe check" looks like a throwback to what twitter started as. You were expected to tweet mundane random status updates like "walking my dog" and "standing in line at chipotle", not 15 part threads of carefully crafted commentary on the state of our economic policies
I prefer the 25 part threads of carefully crafted analysis on how much money you'd waste in transport for enough 5 cent coins to buy a PS5 at a retail place
I've always suspected that a large percentage of the "improvements and fixes" updates were just to "bump" attention to the app without any actual improvements, now we know that Apple is literally making them do this.
Lol. Unless every app that you came across that made you feel that released updates every 4 years, they're not affected by this issue, so Apple is not making them do that.
Maybe they want to get rid of the old apps that no one maintains anymore. Could possibly bring more profit to them "I bought this a decade ago and I can still use it" Apple: "Oh no you don't, the developer didn't update it in too long a time for our taste, buy these new ones instead! Or try this free one riddled with ads!"
@@utubekullanicisi I don't have an iPhone but there's this great app on Android called Wifi Analyzer that is great for checking the Wi-Fi channels being used around your place. Sure that's a lesser problem with 5GHz but it's still useful. This app hasn't been updated since 2018 and it still works fine.
T-Mobile has been hacked so many times recently I suspect their root password is actually just "magenta1" but incrementing the number each time they get hacked.
@@electricmiragemedia there are several times I've thought of dropping them as well. I was allured by the Legere days, what with the competition being so anti-consumer, anti-net-neutrality and whatnot... Right now the price is still right thanks to grandfathered promos too, my best alternatives are all MVNOs. Fi's recent price cut is attractive and actually beats my current rate a decent bit but with Google's track record I'm expecting to have to port my number again in a couple years when they inevitably sunset Fi. Plus it still uses T-Mobile and so I might not be that much better off on security despite all Google's expertise on that end, if the T-Mobile tower is just gonna accept a low-effort spoof of some sort.
My game was pulled off Google Play after years of not updating it. Sadly, this kind of thing can be a real pain to deal with, as in my case half of the game is broken when I simply try to load up the project in Unity. Not only would I need to get setup for app development again, but I'd have to fix a lot of broken menus and weird issues that came from updating the engine, and completely replace the plugin that was accessing Google Play services (because the one I was using is no longer available) and re-implement with the new one. All that to get a game back on the store which only got a few hundred downloads to begin with. The game never stopped working over the years as I tried it on all my phones. But it's sad to eventually lose access like that. I'd have to change so much just to get it back on the store, at that point I might as well double down and remake the thing entirely. It's hard to justify putting in that much effort for a game that's proved unpopular, but it's almost worse knowing how much effort I put in just to end up without so much as a store listing now. The longer a game goes without updates, the more likely a developer is facing this same sort of tough situation. I'd hate to be in the position where I'm still making money on a bunch of smaller games that each would need a bunch of time to update or else get pulled. Unless there's a real reason for Apple to pull them, it just seems unnecessary.
honestly, no product tester comes back home to ignore completely for two entire weeks that they once used to have a super secret prototype borrowed from a company in their possession without panicking and seeings how they could retrace their steps and hopefully pinpoint the exact location of where they have might have left their device
They could just add a small smiley face as an update and have it appear on the home screen of all the apps in an attempt to just piss apple off for making them make an unnecessary update.
how am I expected to believe someone at google took their watch off, removed the band, and left it there for weeks. And why would they have it on them if it doesn’t power on besides a boot screen.
the shape looked a bit like the old pocket watches so it might not actually have a band, at least not on the prototype and it actually makes sense for it to not boot when separated from its host device, it might not have a full operating system yet and be entirely reliant on the host or it could just need to be connected to boot, wouldnt be the first google device ive heard of that refuses to boot without specific conditions in place, if youve never tried to handle a factory fresh android 1.0 install.... dont, just dont
The power-on issue may be a security feature. Deactivated the moment they realised it went missing or was separated from its pairing device. Surprised it wasn't recovered though after all that time. The interesting thing is with all of Google's tracking data, they didn't find it, maybe we are just paranoid they are seeing and listening to everything. :P
@@ryukshinigami281 I mean that sounds some tin foil hat shit. But thinking logically here, SpaceX and his other companies have lost and gained tremendous value just from him tweeting something and people freaking out. I could see him trying to lessen that effect but not full blown ripping twitter apart to hide his controversies
@@AangAirB I could literally see him doing exactly that. Definitely tinfoil hat but Facebook has been caught doing that multiple times and all they got were slaps on the wrist saying not to do it again.
@@milkytokes5740 Twitter is a propaganda outlet first and social media platform second, they're allowed to do whatever they want as long as they fulfill that purpose.
i think the appstore removal thing might be like 32-bit apps that don't work after iOS 11 and apps that don't have a privacy info label thing, and that sounds good in theory to hide by default, but it seems kinda dumb to outright remove all those apps. requiring an update would require developers to submit that privacy information and also ensures 64-bit support, so i guess it might be a way of pressuring all apps to support current upload guidelines by threatening removal otherwise
@@RaNdOmkiid100 Honestly, Elon is so rich and kinda crazy with his money, I could see this being more about making his own personal Twitter experience better rather than making money.
To get rid of media manipulation via bots. Twitter is used to push naritives by having thousands of bot accounts push a story. One current example is the Depp vs Heard trial. It was found that something like 20% of all the accounts pushing news on the trial were all bots with a heavy slant toward Heard. And this is just a dumb celebrity civil suit. Just imagine what happens with political news.
The tracking bot was legally questionable from the getgo (definitely violates Twitter ToS, cyber stalking, though unenforced because Twitter's moderators are obsessed with politics). This made more sense than suing Twitter into the dirt for refusing to take down the account, or being legally circumcised by trying to join the board and simply being refused at all turns.
@@elliothammer9485 Twitter doesn’t offer anything special… Literally he could have made his own platform for much cheaper. RUclips on the other hand has database worth billions. No other video social media platform comes close. Edit: it can also do the same stuff as Twitter. Make post.
@@miked5444 he uses Twitter for Securities fraud and pump and dump schemes already. He should be in a prison cell right now but are government is too pathetic to do anything about it
The corvette is actually pretty good on gas if you aren't beating on it, better than soccer mom SUV's that's for sure. Also the electric one is called the E-Ray, a flashback to the stingray.
The Apple dev story is likely them saying "if your app is not up to at least X SDK, we're not going to allow it to exist due to us pulling support for it/ it's a security risk" - both android and iOS make sure that new updates target an up-to-date minimum SDK level regularly. Hense my suspicion this is them purging old-SDK apps
I used to be an Android dev. Backwards compatibility, even with new features was maintained, within reason. May have changed in the last few years though.
@@sonicthehedgehog1606 you don't become a billionaire by being a good person. That's just a fact. It is literally impossible to earn that much money through hard work alone. Unless you be made it from buying and selling stocks, you don't become a billionaire by being a good person.
@@MrGamelover23 that pretty much IS how you become rich, start a company, people think you're company has potential to be very profitable, stonks. He made his money writing software and then it ballooned not from making cars but from his stock in the company ballooning in price, he's not drilling for oil.
We still need to sue FB for Trademarking Meta. Now I cannot talk to people about a meta of something, without them thinking I am talking about the company. It's a lot like how Fine Bros tried to trademark the word React. Yet Facebook was allowed to trademark Meta? I want to talk about various social meta without Zuck's lawyers peering over
Actually, at the breakneck pace that Apple deprecates APIs, any app that doesn’t at least update yearly is bound to have deprecated code so it makes sense that they’d implement this rule.
What is the purpose of deprecating APIs so fast? I used to be an Android dev, and modern features usually had backward compatibility for older versions that didn't support them natively... within reason. I still have some apps that I had ages ago that still work fine.
@@xeridea There are several reasons from dumb ones like changing names of functions, to new function implementations that take advantage of dedicated hardware acceleration (ML stuff, etc). When you have control of the entire software + hardware stack, there are a lot you can do to improve things hence the code deprecation
@@shanep.7184 Supporting new hardware does not mean you have to ban old apps, the vast majority of which have no use for new hardware. Android supports older apps while also supporting new hardware. Other OSes have broad hardware support, while also supporting older apps, and also new features. Some new games support raytracing... while also supporting rasterization. It has nothing to do with having full control of the stack, if anything, that makes things significantly easier. If others can support a wide array of hardware, while also innovating and supporting new stuff, there is no reason why Apple, who has a very limited scope can't do the same.
@@xeridea Well Apple has always had certain standards when it comes to apps they’ll allow on the store. Apps that aren’t updated regularly won’t be using the latest and greatest from Apple that does the same things faster, more secure, etc and usually doesn’t require much rework. It just comes down to Apple being willing to let old technologies die in pursuit of being the best/fastest/efficient. This is the company that got rid of Floppy disks, CD drives, and headphone jacks after all.
@@shanep.7184 You mean like how when Apple would force a software update, causing non current devices to suddenly run noticeably slow and laggy? New doesn't mean faster. Often updates can cause major performance regression. Updating an app regularly doesn't necessarily mean it uses any new OS features. They aren't saying you need to use any new features, just that you update it. So you could change 1 line of text, push an update, and be fine. I have many apps that in no way would benefit from forced updating. Simple kid games or drawing, general info, etc. Some apps may benefit from new OS features, but the majority won't. There is still the flaw your logic that other companies support a vast array of hardware and stay modern, while still supporting older apps and hardware. There is no technical reason why Apple can't do it. Apple didn't exclusively get rid of floppy drives and CD drives, that was an industry trend to get rid of obsolete tech no one used. Getting rid of headphone jack made no sense. many people still use wired headphones, and there is nothing wrong with doing so, or technical reason why Apple needed to remove it.
@@Sal3600 he unironically hates Mr. Musk (peace be upon him). His reasoning is bizarre, he claims Mr. Musk (peace be upon him) is an attention seeker and that his free speech claims are dubious, without evidence, of course
As a person that was forced onto the t-mobile platform because we were stuck with sprint. The T-mobile 5g is honestly worse than sprints 4g. I barely can keep a connection and load anything outside of my house. And phone calls while driving have now become so bad that just turn my phone off while driving so I don't hear it.
Would love for a hacking group to improve a product and replace backups to reflect that the original product was the updated product to cause confusion.
Ironic how channels like TechLinked are making fun of free speech when they clearly benefit from it. Sometimes, I wish these people would experience what it's like to live in China or North Korea. Fortunately, my ancestors left the former and I'm eternally grateful for it.
@@Oblivious2013 There is no real revenue. SpaceX only exists because US/Russian Relations. The US government needed knockoff Russian Rockets designs with a US branding. Telsa lived on welfare from the state of California then the first chance they got they shifted production to China and bailed out of the state. SolarCity was a complete debacle. The boring company is literally just money laundering with useless tunneling projects. Where Musk is getting paid 10s of millions from corrupt city governments to dig storm drains under parking lots.
I love how people will make fun of free speech but that's the only way to communicate unless you are fighting? I mean we can go back to waring each other but I'd rather just talk it out which is why you need free speech.
I agree. Free speech should be allowed fully. Particularly so in cases where the speech causes controversy or gets people uncomfortable in any way. In my humble, personal opinion, this is a must if we wanna make real societal progress. The only reason I think some people are opposed to this, is because those people really don't know any way to communicate with a person/idea they disagree with except by hurling insults and fighting verbally. Basically all people are like this though, which points to a bigger issue. People just don't know how to communicate/resolve an issue when it really counts, that is, when talking to someone you deeply disagree with or someone that you hate because of some reason. I'm guilty of it myself, but I'm aware of it and am working on bettering myself. I don't think the same can be said for most people.
Would it really? I think Twitter just enables us to see more easily what already exists in the world. It won't stop existing if suddenly Twitter stops being a thing.
Could you imagine the conversation Linus would have with Elon if he actually tried to buy LMG? It would probably be a conversation about screwdriver quality is priority #1! 🤔🤣
Or, you know, buy it for billions of dollars. Which is definitely something everyone could do and not at all a sign of how undemocratic our world is due to the existence of obscene wealth.
Are we going full circle? I remember thinking facebook wall posts were like aim statuses but with a history and comments, now social media is going to be like "what if you want to post but like don't want comments and then you can just update the same post. Yeah!"
LMAOOOO elon asked that kid to stop the bot trakcer and when he said no elon LITERALLY said "we'll see about it. i'll just buy twitter and force him to stop."
The "Vibe Check" twitter options has "Driving Highway" as an option. Distracted Driving at it's finest. Oh hold on, let me put my vibe check into driving on the highway.
I think developers should be forced to continue support for apps especially when they are paid. I got burned on both BioShock for iOS and the Infinity Blade series because the developers refused to keep them compatible with newer versions of iOS. I paid for them. But now they’re gone
I mean, if he really follows through with allowing free speech then technically it would be centrist because all walks of life and ideals would be allowed a voice.
Have an old iOS game I purchased back in like the 3gs days; but it stopped getting updated so long ago, it won't even load on anything past like iOS 6 and I had to keep an old device around just for when I wanted to play it (because I still like to play it occasionally as it's still one of my favorite mobile games ever). Bet this one gets deleted for sure.
@@artursaizikovics3433 It's called AR War. It's kind of one of those RISK clones; but it has an American Revolutionary War theme/map. The publisher still has several other games that are similar but with a different setting that are still updated; but for some reason this one was abandoned. I played the free version on my iPhone first, then purchased the full iPhone version, and then later purchased the full iPad version as well. I got an old first gen iPad I really only keep around just so I can still play that game when I want.
0:35 Thank you for being one of the very few people who realize that this is not final yet, still requiring a shareholder vote at the annual meeting next month, and regulatory approval. Pretty much everyone is acting like Elon has already bought and is already in full control of Twitter.
While buying Twitter was a power move by the richest man in the world, I expect it to barely change. The only thing that will change is cancel culture, which was it's strongest on Twitter. It's good to note that generally the same people will be using the platform, I've never personally used Twitter, because either way it's a waste of time. Having rational conversations on Twitter was never a Twitter thing.
You've never used it, but are claiming it's got the strongest cancel culture? Despite the fact that Ive reported literal death threats and child pron before, only for them to stay up?
On the plus side it helps you to know who the real bad people are. Everyone should be advocating for free speech regardless of political viewpoint, gender, ethnicity because we should all have a voice. However some people think that they should only have a voice and not others as seen in this video.
You aren't one of those people that think Elon is doing all this for the "free speech" are you? Allowing/disallowing on twitter has nothing to do with free speech.
@@Spacewalrus2010 I've never used twitter, so I'm out of the loop on the majority of this, I was just stunned that free speech was something that was being scoffed at in the video. I don't quite care about elon buying the platform, but I do think that free speech is quite important, regardless of what platform it's on
@@davidcyphers8448 The scoffing is more than likely due to how often its complained about when the situation has nothing to do with it. I.E. thinking being banned on twitter is as an affront to free speech (its not). Free speech is not "under attack." So the scoff is laughing at the idea that people think it is.
I kinda like the apple update policy, but with the caveat that they should implement a rule that if it’s a completely free app, it only needs to be updated if there’s a code break/bugs. if it’s a paid app, the dev can set the update length of time after release, and if they stop supporting it, it can be removed but people who bought it can download a installer copy. If it’s a subscription, for sure updates for big fixes bare minimum. If it doesn’t need new features and is based more on utility, just bug fixes and what not are fine. Most important thing is customers can keep a copy/installer if they want. But there are so many shitty apps on the store that haven’t been updated in years. Atleast put them in a different section or something.
Just wondering if Apple needs the update to be "significant" too. As the devs can simply add a pixel as an update if Apple simply needs to see any form of update, right?
Are you guys really mocking free speech? If you don’t like Elon that’s ok, but to mock the one value the entirety of the free world embraces in order to actually be FREE, is shameful. BTW, it’s that ‘free speech’ that allows you all to criticize and critique different companies and their products, thereby giving you content. 🤷♂️
When the crypto fascists say "free speech" they mean enabling the blather machine. Like the US model of radio. Expect free speech to be as meaningful as self-driving.
@@LordAJ12345 I hadn’t seen that yet, last I heard was he asked everyone that wanted to, to stay on regardless of their differences…. Obviously there won’t be a board anymore though.
It's honestly sad. The silver lining is that it helps to tell who the real bad guys are. LTT clearly doesn't like people having a voice but they very clearly cherish theirs.
"I collect them in my little pouch." I love it. Almost as much as I love our sponsor, Daddy Elon! Daddy Elon is all about free speech. Sign up to Twitter today to not be silenced by the woke mob anymore.
Pixel watch theory. Probably only had a boot screen because as soon as whoever relaiszed it was missing, they sent a command to wipe it so data/os wasnt compromised. The person likely didnt know where it was left (guessing 'find my watch' wasnt enabled?'.. or they panicked and wiped it before trying to find it)
Same way all Billionaires pay for everything. Take on massive debt through loans then transfer the liability to the company so if you go under your personal wealth is safe.
@@hiurro Yup, same thing Bezos did. Does anyone actuslly believe rich people do anything under their own name? It's way easier to avoid taxes if you make your personally owned company do it, and just transfer it to your name for $1 afterwards.
@@hiurro The fucked up part is that is part of the scheme is he knows his own companies are a bubble so if he buys into other companies Betting against his own no matter what he wins in this situation and everyone else loses. He keeps buying more assets with taxpayer money and loans against the assets purchased with that taxpayer dollars. It's divide and conquer tactics. Except it's securities fraud.
Most companies keep legacy APIs around. Apple … doesn't. Old things become deprecated and then get removed. If you're not keeping up, your apps still work on old devices and OS versions … but are sub-optimal on new ones. Since Apple is 200% all about that grift, things continuing to work on old devices and old OS versions are not acceptable. And if they're not shiny and new every five minutes to encourage people to fork over that fresh cash for the fresh new product, well … either you're helping Apple make money or you're not worth Apple deigning to allow you to call yourself an app developer.
I don't understand why they are so upset at his acquisition of Twitter? All he said he was going to do was "remove bots" and "add an edit button." I think because he uses words that trigger some people like "free speech" people have a knee jerk reaction. Unjustified imo.
@@Battlefox64_RL I don't know much about this myself but a billionaire like Musk owning and controlling an app/website, where people come to discuss things and get to know what others think, does not sound like a good idea. There is potential for abuse through manipulation of information. Kinda like what Facebook has done in the past, and still does probably. Although Musk sure seems to be all for free speech, at least on the face. Theres no way for us to know though. Only time will tell I suppose.
A lot of people hate the idea of free speech because people would have to have debate over ideals and viewpoints. Hopefully this means that when someone has a different viewpoint you can't just scream "Nazi!" and have them censored/banned from the platform.
It was a google prototype. The dev probably left it after reading his emails and saw the project was cancelled.
lmao
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Naaaah, Google wouldn't cancel it until it has a huge loyal userbase. They're fueled by disappointment, that's how you get the most bang for your buck.
"Vibe check" looks like a throwback to what twitter started as. You were expected to tweet mundane random status updates like "walking my dog" and "standing in line at chipotle", not 15 part threads of carefully crafted commentary on the state of our economic policies
I prefer the 25 part threads of carefully crafted analysis on how much money you'd waste in transport for enough 5 cent coins to buy a PS5 at a retail place
poorly thought-out commentary on the state of our economic policies*
@@ltrt6975 poorly researched and thoughtout*
why do you think twitter got so popular then? social media isnt what you ideally want it to be, for all of us
I prefer the non-threaded meme posts without any text or context
I refuse to go to a meta store that doesn't sell stores. it's like going to Best Buy when they aren't the Bestp Buy. it's the principle of the thing.
Isn't that just Squarespace
Lol.
I'm so meta I never created an account. Take that fb!
@@OrangeC7 or the stock market.
I've always suspected that a large percentage of the "improvements and fixes" updates were just to "bump" attention to the app without any actual improvements, now we know that Apple is literally making them do this.
You can literally just change/increase the version number and it'll show as an update.
Lol. Unless every app that you came across that made you feel that released updates every 4 years, they're not affected by this issue, so Apple is not making them do that.
Maybe they want to get rid of the old apps that no one maintains anymore. Could possibly bring more profit to them "I bought this a decade ago and I can still use it" Apple: "Oh no you don't, the developer didn't update it in too long a time for our taste, buy these new ones instead! Or try this free one riddled with ads!"
Apple is only doing this to clear house. Storing apps on a server gets expensive when your at the scale of google or apple.
@@utubekullanicisi I don't have an iPhone but there's this great app on Android called Wifi Analyzer that is great for checking the Wi-Fi channels being used around your place. Sure that's a lesser problem with 5GHz but it's still useful. This app hasn't been updated since 2018 and it still works fine.
T-Mobile has been hacked so many times recently I suspect their root password is actually just "magenta1" but incrementing the number each time they get hacked.
Don't be ridiculous. The password is actually a bored ape NFT. Nobody's gonna be stealing that!
why does that sound like something they'd do tho
They have great service but I stopped using them when it became clear they don't think security is important
@@electricmiragemedia there are several times I've thought of dropping them as well. I was allured by the Legere days, what with the competition being so anti-consumer, anti-net-neutrality and whatnot... Right now the price is still right thanks to grandfathered promos too, my best alternatives are all MVNOs. Fi's recent price cut is attractive and actually beats my current rate a decent bit but with Google's track record I'm expecting to have to port my number again in a couple years when they inevitably sunset Fi. Plus it still uses T-Mobile and so I might not be that much better off on security despite all Google's expertise on that end, if the T-Mobile tower is just gonna accept a low-effort spoof of some sort.
So glad I dropped them last year
My game was pulled off Google Play after years of not updating it. Sadly, this kind of thing can be a real pain to deal with, as in my case half of the game is broken when I simply try to load up the project in Unity. Not only would I need to get setup for app development again, but I'd have to fix a lot of broken menus and weird issues that came from updating the engine, and completely replace the plugin that was accessing Google Play services (because the one I was using is no longer available) and re-implement with the new one. All that to get a game back on the store which only got a few hundred downloads to begin with.
The game never stopped working over the years as I tried it on all my phones. But it's sad to eventually lose access like that. I'd have to change so much just to get it back on the store, at that point I might as well double down and remake the thing entirely. It's hard to justify putting in that much effort for a game that's proved unpopular, but it's almost worse knowing how much effort I put in just to end up without so much as a store listing now. The longer a game goes without updates, the more likely a developer is facing this same sort of tough situation. I'd hate to be in the position where I'm still making money on a bunch of smaller games that each would need a bunch of time to update or else get pulled. Unless there's a real reason for Apple to pull them, it just seems unnecessary.
maybe it'll be more popular now, you'd never know.
Make it open source? Or upload the apk to a repository or different app store
What kind of game was it?
What was the name of the game?
Put in on F-droid :)
"Have they found the prototype we left yet?"
"Yes, it was finally found. We can now be cool like Apple."
honestly, no product tester comes back home to ignore completely for two entire weeks that they once used to have a super secret prototype borrowed from a company in their possession without panicking and seeings how they could retrace their steps and hopefully pinpoint the exact location of where they have might have left their device
When Apple did it, they saw it as a huge snafu. Google might see it as a marketing opportunity.
you can literally call places and ask them if they saw a certain something without even walking in
no one ever said apple is cool lmao
@@robynd6138 That's part of the joke ;)
They could just add a small smiley face as an update and have it appear on the home screen of all the apps in an attempt to just piss apple off for making them make an unnecessary update.
Why should Apple care about that
My thoughts exactly.
...apple could just reject those kind of update unfortunately
Apple compliant change log:
Version 91.233: - added a smiley face
Version 91.234: - removed the smiley face
Version 91.235: - added a smiley face
I feel like this is more to do with annual fees developers need to pay Apple, rather than caring that much about app functionality.
how am I expected to believe someone at google took their watch off, removed the band, and left it there for weeks. And why would they have it on them if it doesn’t power on besides a boot screen.
the shape looked a bit like the old pocket watches so it might not actually have a band, at least not on the prototype and it actually makes sense for it to not boot when separated from its host device, it might not have a full operating system yet and be entirely reliant on the host or it could just need to be connected to boot, wouldnt be the first google device ive heard of that refuses to boot without specific conditions in place, if youve never tried to handle a factory fresh android 1.0 install.... dont, just dont
Why it shows only a boot screen: Maybe the battery is nearly dead after a few weeks?
The power-on issue may be a security feature. Deactivated the moment they realised it went missing or was separated from its pairing device.
Surprised it wasn't recovered though after all that time. The interesting thing is with all of Google's tracking data, they didn't find it, maybe we are just paranoid they are seeing and listening to everything. :P
I sure bet that's what his bosses are wondering too 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
honestly i wont be surprised if its just a controlled leak lol
Twitter : We don't want a hostile take over
Elon: How about 44Billion take it or leave it
Twitter: SOLD!
I bet he did it to bury information
@@ryukshinigami281 I mean that sounds some tin foil hat shit. But thinking logically here, SpaceX and his other companies have lost and gained tremendous value just from him tweeting something and people freaking out. I could see him trying to lessen that effect but not full blown ripping twitter apart to hide his controversies
@@AangAirB I could literally see him doing exactly that. Definitely tinfoil hat but Facebook has been caught doing that multiple times and all they got were slaps on the wrist saying not to do it again.
hey man, 44billions bucks is 44billion bucks
@@milkytokes5740 Twitter is a propaganda outlet first and social media platform second, they're allowed to do whatever they want as long as they fulfill that purpose.
I would update my app with a counter: "number of useless updates since apple forced this on us ##"
But then they'll reject your update for some nonsense reason like keeps happening to Floatplane, and they'll pull you from the app store.
or just "Bugs Fixed", done
i think the appstore removal thing might be like 32-bit apps that don't work after iOS 11 and apps that don't have a privacy info label thing, and that sounds good in theory to hide by default, but it seems kinda dumb to outright remove all those apps. requiring an update would require developers to submit that privacy information and also ensures 64-bit support, so i guess it might be a way of pressuring all apps to support current upload guidelines by threatening removal otherwise
0:20 The funny thing is most of the people promising to leave, are the same people who make Twitter insufferable.
$44B for an edit button is pretty much expensive.
almost like he believes he's gonna get way more back by controlling twitter
@@RaNdOmkiid100 well he will, he owns them. Hope he fires all theose woke freaks
free speech is never free
@@RaNdOmkiid100 Honestly, Elon is so rich and kinda crazy with his money, I could see this being more about making his own personal Twitter experience better rather than making money.
it's also to remove the leftists' censorship
Lol "looks stupid" about the pixel device made me emit a sharp exhale. Thanks Riley
Or thanks whomever wrote that part into the script. But knowing Riley he genuinely said that.
I also expelled air from my nose with slightly more force than that of normal breathing.
1:05 Getting rid of bots?
Did he just buy the whole of Twitter just to get rid of the jet tracking bot?
To get rid of media manipulation via bots. Twitter is used to push naritives by having thousands of bot accounts push a story. One current example is the Depp vs Heard trial. It was found that something like 20% of all the accounts pushing news on the trial were all bots with a heavy slant toward Heard. And this is just a dumb celebrity civil suit. Just imagine what happens with political news.
Sure why not?
The tracking bot was legally questionable from the getgo (definitely violates Twitter ToS, cyber stalking, though unenforced because Twitter's moderators are obsessed with politics). This made more sense than suing Twitter into the dirt for refusing to take down the account, or being legally circumcised by trying to join the board and simply being refused at all turns.
@@KiraSlith it doesn’t violate ToS when you are a public figure, which Elon really wants to be and therefore is
@@KiraSlith "[buying it] made more sense than suing Twitter" bahahaha... fuck me. If this is the quality of new Twitter posts... IM IN!
so glad Elon finally founded twitter
So it can finally be deleted
It will be reborn yes
Should have bought RUclips. Would have been more useful.
@@TankTheSpank woulda been more expensive from Google, and he doesn't overuse and love yt as much as twitter
@@elliothammer9485 Twitter doesn’t offer anything special… Literally he could have made his own platform for much cheaper. RUclips on the other hand has database worth billions. No other video social media platform comes close.
Edit: it can also do the same stuff as Twitter. Make post.
First twiiter bot on the chopping block, the Elon Musk private jet tracker.
beginning to think the is why he bought twitter.
@@miked5444 he uses Twitter for Securities fraud and pump and dump schemes already. He should be in a prison cell right now but are government is too pathetic to do anything about it
@@miked5444 bingo. + Any other shady shit he's been up to. My guess is there's dirty info on twitter servers that he doesn't like.
@@ryukshinigami281 bro take of the tinfoil hat
Vaporware sales to the moon
The corvette is actually pretty good on gas if you aren't beating on it, better than soccer mom SUV's that's for sure. Also the electric one is called the E-Ray, a flashback to the stingray.
Even older c5 corrvettes can get 30+mpg (40mpg with a tune), which is pretty impressive for a v8 powered sports car from 1997-2004.
The Apple dev story is likely them saying "if your app is not up to at least X SDK, we're not going to allow it to exist due to us pulling support for it/ it's a security risk" - both android and iOS make sure that new updates target an up-to-date minimum SDK level regularly. Hense my suspicion this is them purging old-SDK apps
whilst likely the case, they really ought to be more clear about such things
Backwards compatibility? What's that?
I used to be an Android dev. Backwards compatibility, even with new features was maintained, within reason. May have changed in the last few years though.
@@miguelguthridge Happens all the time, you’ll run into this with kernels that can’t support newer drivers. Sometimes a good or bad thing.
Yup, they did that last year too.
If he bans NFT Profile Pictures he’ll be as revered as Linus.
Pretty sure Elon is interested in manipulating NFT and Crypto prices.
@@sebastianflynn1746 just because he's has a lot of money don't mean that. Not all rich people are evil people like people make it out to be
@@sebastianflynn1746 elon mocks nfts.
@@sonicthehedgehog1606 you don't become a billionaire by being a good person. That's just a fact. It is literally impossible to earn that much money through hard work alone. Unless you be made it from buying and selling stocks, you don't become a billionaire by being a good person.
@@MrGamelover23 that pretty much IS how you become rich, start a company, people think you're company has potential to be very profitable, stonks. He made his money writing software and then it ballooned not from making cars but from his stock in the company ballooning in price, he's not drilling for oil.
Google just forgot their smartwatch just like they forget their other projects
Honestly NFT buyingers being scammed for their NFTs is ironic because its a scam in the first place
Elon musk is a scam
Good to see Facespace is on the ball with a new and exciting features stolen from ICQ.
We still need to sue FB for Trademarking Meta. Now I cannot talk to people about a meta of something, without them thinking I am talking about the company. It's a lot like how Fine Bros tried to trademark the word React. Yet Facebook was allowed to trademark Meta? I want to talk about various social meta without Zuck's lawyers peering over
Is social meta the new fb platform or something?
Is it trademarked though?
synonyms
Actually, at the breakneck pace that Apple deprecates APIs, any app that doesn’t at least update yearly is bound to have deprecated code so it makes sense that they’d implement this rule.
What is the purpose of deprecating APIs so fast? I used to be an Android dev, and modern features usually had backward compatibility for older versions that didn't support them natively... within reason. I still have some apps that I had ages ago that still work fine.
@@xeridea There are several reasons from dumb ones like changing names of functions, to new function implementations that take advantage of dedicated hardware acceleration (ML stuff, etc). When you have control of the entire software + hardware stack, there are a lot you can do to improve things hence the code deprecation
@@shanep.7184 Supporting new hardware does not mean you have to ban old apps, the vast majority of which have no use for new hardware. Android supports older apps while also supporting new hardware. Other OSes have broad hardware support, while also supporting older apps, and also new features. Some new games support raytracing... while also supporting rasterization. It has nothing to do with having full control of the stack, if anything, that makes things significantly easier. If others can support a wide array of hardware, while also innovating and supporting new stuff, there is no reason why Apple, who has a very limited scope can't do the same.
@@xeridea Well Apple has always had certain standards when it comes to apps they’ll allow on the store. Apps that aren’t updated regularly won’t be using the latest and greatest from Apple that does the same things faster, more secure, etc and usually doesn’t require much rework. It just comes down to Apple being willing to let old technologies die in pursuit of being the best/fastest/efficient. This is the company that got rid of Floppy disks, CD drives, and headphone jacks after all.
@@shanep.7184 You mean like how when Apple would force a software update, causing non current devices to suddenly run noticeably slow and laggy? New doesn't mean faster. Often updates can cause major performance regression. Updating an app regularly doesn't necessarily mean it uses any new OS features. They aren't saying you need to use any new features, just that you update it. So you could change 1 line of text, push an update, and be fine. I have many apps that in no way would benefit from forced updating. Simple kid games or drawing, general info, etc. Some apps may benefit from new OS features, but the majority won't.
There is still the flaw your logic that other companies support a vast array of hardware and stay modern, while still supporting older apps and hardware. There is no technical reason why Apple can't do it.
Apple didn't exclusively get rid of floppy drives and CD drives, that was an industry trend to get rid of obsolete tech no one used. Getting rid of headphone jack made no sense. many people still use wired headphones, and there is nothing wrong with doing so, or technical reason why Apple needed to remove it.
Apple removing apps... Oh god is flappy bird.. IM AFRAID!
The meltdown about Elon's takeover is absolutely hilarious seeing both political sides reaction on Twitter no less 😂
Linus is melting down too for some odd reason.
@@Sal3600 he unironically hates Mr. Musk (peace be upon him). His reasoning is bizarre, he claims Mr. Musk (peace be upon him) is an attention seeker and that his free speech claims are dubious, without evidence, of course
@@Sal3600 eh he's free to have his concerns about it for me I can't really care nothing will change drastically for my user experience 😂👍🏻
Get wrecked blue checks. Twitter is a toxic hell hole and requires someone insane like Elon to shake things up.
@@Sal3600 ya lol, they do lean a little on the liberal side imo.
**Looks at Twitter** and now we just sit back and wait for the fun to start.
Do people still use twitter? I thought it went the way of MySpace.
4:51 i couldn't stop myself from laughing, worst/best part is i dont even feel bad for em
the question is, will he allow talks about unionizing at Tesla, or does only *he* gets freedom of speech.
He has claimed that Uniions can come in anytime, unmolested. Haven't heard if any are taking him up on it.
Nothing better than a cup of fresh tech news with Riley in the morning. It gives me good vibes for the rest of the day.
People deleting their accounts cause elon buys twitter is the best cleansing
Feels good man
As a person that was forced onto the t-mobile platform because we were stuck with sprint. The T-mobile 5g is honestly worse than sprints 4g. I barely can keep a connection and load anything outside of my house. And phone calls while driving have now become so bad that just turn my phone off while driving so I don't hear it.
5 years from now: Elon Musk Buys Linus Media Group for $4 Billion Dollars.
$4,200,690,000
@@sinuslebastian6366 Achoo!!
Would love for a hacking group to improve a product and replace backups to reflect that the original product was the updated product to cause confusion.
Ironic how channels like TechLinked are making fun of free speech when they clearly benefit from it. Sometimes, I wish these people would experience what it's like to live in China or North Korea. Fortunately, my ancestors left the former and I'm eternally grateful for it.
The SOB actually did it
Their quarterly was about to come out this week so it would have showed a massive loss in revenue so they had to accept it or face lawsuits
Because of market manipulation
@@infernaldaedra revenue isn't effected by stock price
@@Oblivious2013 There is no real revenue.
SpaceX only exists because US/Russian Relations. The US government needed knockoff Russian Rockets designs with a US branding.
Telsa lived on welfare from the state of California then the first chance they got they shifted production to China and bailed out of the state.
SolarCity was a complete debacle.
The boring company is literally just money laundering with useless tunneling projects. Where Musk is getting paid 10s of millions from corrupt city governments to dig storm drains under parking lots.
@@infernaldaedra lmao stock price doesn't affect the revenue of a company.
All according to keikaku
I love how people will make fun of free speech but that's the only way to communicate unless you are fighting? I mean we can go back to waring each other but I'd rather just talk it out which is why you need free speech.
I agree. Free speech should be allowed fully. Particularly so in cases where the speech causes controversy or gets people uncomfortable in any way. In my humble, personal opinion, this is a must if we wanna make real societal progress. The only reason I think some people are opposed to this, is because those people really don't know any way to communicate with a person/idea they disagree with except by hurling insults and fighting verbally. Basically all people are like this though, which points to a bigger issue. People just don't know how to communicate/resolve an issue when it really counts, that is, when talking to someone you deeply disagree with or someone that you hate because of some reason. I'm guilty of it myself, but I'm aware of it and am working on bettering myself. I don't think the same can be said for most people.
Again with the fake throwup at "FreeSpeech" Y'all are freaking me out with that.
That expression from Riley in the thumbnail is great!
Check 2:50
The world would be a better place without Twitter.
And without you.
Would it really? I think Twitter just enables us to see more easily what already exists in the world. It won't stop existing if suddenly Twitter stops being a thing.
@@Sal3600 Not a very nice thing to say
2:14 I can only imagine the updates notes being like: "Changed nothing visible just because Apple wants me to"
Could you imagine the conversation Linus would have with Elon if he actually tried to buy LMG? It would probably be a conversation about screwdriver quality is priority #1! 🤔🤣
No, it would be about how Linus doesn’t like that Elon got prenup.
"This video was sponsored by Tesla!"
Considering how much Linus whines about the guy, he probably daydreams about this happening just so he could reject the offer.
He would just say "no go away" and that would be it
Ew. EV Corvette? So you charge it for a day, make it 100 miles, then it falls apart?
Technically Elon now owns Vine too
This is the best thing that could happen to Twitter, freedom is all!
naive
It's a private company. If you don't like it you can leave and make your own Twitter
Or, you know, buy it for billions of dollars. Which is definitely something everyone could do and not at all a sign of how undemocratic our world is due to the existence of obscene wealth.
No issue there, I’ve seen apps from 13 years ago still floating around without updates
Free speech is good. If you don't agree you have issues.
LOL, the "Buy us, Elon!" at the end!
I wonder what Elon is gonna do in the future with the businesses he has and what plans he has for Twitter
If he was smart, he'd mine it for user data to inform the AI systems on his cars, and leave it mostly alone.
He will tweet about SpaceX and Tesla 24/7
A little hint. Space.
@@chrisblanchard6413 I think he wants the speech/communication data for his AIs
He is going to push vaporware
-a physical Meta-store... isn't that just a Store?
-that Google Prototype was going to get canceled anyway, so nothing was really lost
We need an download video button
1:52 omfg IT REALLY IS A GOOGLE WATCH
Its the Dawn of a new era.
Are we going full circle? I remember thinking facebook wall posts were like aim statuses but with a history and comments, now social media is going to be like "what if you want to post but like don't want comments and then you can just update the same post. Yeah!"
Let's hope he just shuts down Twitter
Umm since when has the Corvette been a gas guzzler?
Imagine he just deletes Twitter, and thus fulfilling its “potential”
LOL at him saying "A-I-M" instead like of the rest of the world calling it "A.I.M" back then hahahaha
They should have mentioned elon open sourcing twitter algorithm. If that happens it would be a huge first.
I don't think they want to give him any praise and LTT seems to be in the camp of Free Speech is Bad...
LMAOOOO elon asked that kid to stop the bot trakcer and when he said no elon LITERALLY said "we'll see about it. i'll just buy twitter and force him to stop."
The "Vibe Check" twitter options has "Driving Highway" as an option. Distracted Driving at it's finest. Oh hold on, let me put my vibe check into driving on the highway.
I think developers should be forced to continue support for apps especially when they are paid. I got burned on both BioShock for iOS and the Infinity Blade series because the developers refused to keep them compatible with newer versions of iOS. I paid for them. But now they’re gone
Hoping this bring twitter to centrist.
I mean, if he really follows through with allowing free speech then technically it would be centrist because all walks of life and ideals would be allowed a voice.
2:23 CMON ROCKSTAR THIS IS YOUR QUEUE, I just wanna play Bully Scholarship Edition on my phone FINALLY
Have an old iOS game I purchased back in like the 3gs days; but it stopped getting updated so long ago, it won't even load on anything past like iOS 6 and I had to keep an old device around just for when I wanted to play it (because I still like to play it occasionally as it's still one of my favorite mobile games ever). Bet this one gets deleted for sure.
Whats the name)
Do you have a copy of infinity blade or something? ;P
@@artursaizikovics3433 It's called AR War. It's kind of one of those RISK clones; but it has an American Revolutionary War theme/map. The publisher still has several other games that are similar but with a different setting that are still updated; but for some reason this one was abandoned. I played the free version on my iPhone first, then purchased the full iPhone version, and then later purchased the full iPad version as well. I got an old first gen iPad I really only keep around just so I can still play that game when I want.
0:35 Thank you for being one of the very few people who realize that this is not final yet, still requiring a shareholder vote at the annual meeting next month, and regulatory approval. Pretty much everyone is acting like Elon has already bought and is already in full control of Twitter.
While buying Twitter was a power move by the richest man in the world, I expect it to barely change. The only thing that will change is cancel culture, which was it's strongest on Twitter. It's good to note that generally the same people will be using the platform, I've never personally used Twitter, because either way it's a waste of time. Having rational conversations on Twitter was never a Twitter thing.
You're not getting cancelled
That's called
BOYCOTTING YOU MUPPET.
Same
You've never used it, but are claiming it's got the strongest cancel culture?
Despite the fact that Ive reported literal death threats and child pron before, only for them to stay up?
On FIRE today! I laughed more on this one than usual.
Never before have I heard someone scoff at the idea of free speech
On the plus side it helps you to know who the real bad people are. Everyone should be advocating for free speech regardless of political viewpoint, gender, ethnicity because we should all have a voice. However some people think that they should only have a voice and not others as seen in this video.
@@thedoubleop completely agreed.
You aren't one of those people that think Elon is doing all this for the "free speech" are you?
Allowing/disallowing on twitter has nothing to do with free speech.
@@Spacewalrus2010 I've never used twitter, so I'm out of the loop on the majority of this, I was just stunned that free speech was something that was being scoffed at in the video. I don't quite care about elon buying the platform, but I do think that free speech is quite important, regardless of what platform it's on
@@davidcyphers8448 The scoffing is more than likely due to how often its complained about when the situation has nothing to do with it. I.E. thinking being banned on twitter is as an affront to free speech (its not).
Free speech is not "under attack." So the scoff is laughing at the idea that people think it is.
It's because of censorship. Not just bots
Didn't say bots. He said "spam bots".
I don’t…what…do we go back to Facebook??
Some say this will be really good, and some say this will be really bad. I'm optimistic, I downloaded Twitter again we'll see how this goes.
I kinda like the apple update policy, but with the caveat that they should implement a rule that if it’s a completely free app, it only needs to be updated if there’s a code break/bugs. if it’s a paid app, the dev can set the update length of time after release, and if they stop supporting it, it can be removed but people who bought it can download a installer copy. If it’s a subscription, for sure updates for big fixes bare minimum. If it doesn’t need new features and is based more on utility, just bug fixes and what not are fine.
Most important thing is customers can keep a copy/installer if they want. But there are so many shitty apps on the store that haven’t been updated in years. Atleast put them in a different section or something.
Actually, corvettes are pretty fuel efficient considering potent v8s. I'd say 25-30mpg
I get 30-32hwy in my 04 and i have it running a little rich.
well for something that can probly go 180mph, 70mph is barely above idle lol
Beat me to it. My C6 Z06 was getting around 27mpg vs 22 mpg on my Golf R.
I was getting little over 30mpg on my '87 C4
Wow. That's impressive
Just wondering if Apple needs the update to be "significant" too. As the devs can simply add a pixel as an update if Apple simply needs to see any form of update, right?
Are you guys really mocking free speech? If you don’t like Elon that’s ok, but to mock the one value the entirety of the free world embraces in order to actually be FREE, is shameful.
BTW, it’s that ‘free speech’ that allows you all to criticize and critique different companies and their products, thereby giving you content. 🤷♂️
literally
They’re mocking the idea that Musk is a beacon of free speech when he’s literally firing employees over saying things he doesn’t like.
When the crypto fascists say "free speech" they mean enabling the blather machine. Like the US model of radio. Expect free speech to be as meaningful as self-driving.
@@LordAJ12345 I hadn’t seen that yet, last I heard was he asked everyone that wanted to, to stay on regardless of their differences…. Obviously there won’t be a board anymore though.
It's honestly sad. The silver lining is that it helps to tell who the real bad guys are.
LTT clearly doesn't like people having a voice but they very clearly cherish theirs.
Im pretty sure no one paid any attention to this but "AN AWD CORVETTE!!!!!"🤯🤯🤯
"I collect them in my little pouch."
I love it.
Almost as much as I love our sponsor, Daddy Elon! Daddy Elon is all about free speech. Sign up to Twitter today to not be silenced by the woke mob anymore.
Pixel watch theory. Probably only had a boot screen because as soon as whoever relaiszed it was missing, they sent a command to wipe it so data/os wasnt compromised. The person likely didnt know where it was left (guessing 'find my watch' wasnt enabled?'.. or they panicked and wiped it before trying to find it)
ELON: Sell to me Twitter or I'll buy it
BOARD OF DIRECTOR: As if there was a choice
Board is required by Federal Law to operate in the best interest of share holders
@@zack9912000 Fuck shareholders, when can we jail THEM?!
Still cheaper than Activision Blizz lol. Funny how Twitter cost less than a gaming company. I wonder how much Facebook would cost? O_o
Canadians making fun of free speech is not surprising. I bet you want Justin to govern you more.
Linus is changing pills, and that makes him unstable currently. We have free speech and fully support it, both main parties
The guy in the background is killing my morning coffee buzz.
Wow! The Tech News are just as quick as Buick Qits!
Good that Elon took Twitter. Free speech vs. 'woke': 1-0
1-24565343687543467 fify
Honest question here: how is Elon going to pay for it⁉️ I thought he was out of liquidity
Same way all Billionaires pay for everything. Take on massive debt through loans then transfer the liability to the company so if you go under your personal wealth is safe.
@@hiurro Yup, same thing Bezos did. Does anyone actuslly believe rich people do anything under their own name? It's way easier to avoid taxes if you make your personally owned company do it, and just transfer it to your name for $1 afterwards.
@@hiurro The fucked up part is that is part of the scheme is he knows his own companies are a bubble so if he buys into other companies Betting against his own no matter what he wins in this situation and everyone else loses. He keeps buying more assets with taxpayer money and loans against the assets purchased with that taxpayer dollars. It's divide and conquer tactics. Except it's securities fraud.
In short. By being Evil.
Monthly app update, put somewhere one dot in the app. But make sure to hide it.
We can finally get an Edit button boys!
Probably for a small monthly fee...
@@elvara872 doubt it
@@elvara872 elon said no ads too bozo
Buying a private island with harem: 👎
Buying a useless social media platform: 👌
Most companies keep legacy APIs around. Apple … doesn't. Old things become deprecated and then get removed. If you're not keeping up, your apps still work on old devices and OS versions … but are sub-optimal on new ones.
Since Apple is 200% all about that grift, things continuing to work on old devices and old OS versions are not acceptable. And if they're not shiny and new every five minutes to encourage people to fork over that fresh cash for the fresh new product, well … either you're helping Apple make money or you're not worth Apple deigning to allow you to call yourself an app developer.
Google is killing all but the latest two APIs too
2:45
Yeah, further artificially filling up your not expandable iphone memory...
I love that literally everyone jokes about this meta thing... nobody wants this.
It's gonna be great. In San Francisco you can just walk into a store and steal shit.
I love that Linus is coping and seething over Elon buying Twitter
I don't understand why they are so upset at his acquisition of Twitter? All he said he was going to do was "remove bots" and "add an edit button." I think because he uses words that trigger some people like "free speech" people have a knee jerk reaction. Unjustified imo.
@@Battlefox64_RL I don't know much about this myself but a billionaire like Musk owning and controlling an app/website, where people come to discuss things and get to know what others think, does not sound like a good idea. There is potential for abuse through manipulation of information. Kinda like what Facebook has done in the past, and still does probably. Although Musk sure seems to be all for free speech, at least on the face. Theres no way for us to know though. Only time will tell I suppose.
I feel like you are the kind of people who said they would quit Twitter if he bought it
Saying Elon bad != woke, tf is wrong with you guys.
A lot of people hate the idea of free speech because people would have to have debate over ideals and viewpoints. Hopefully this means that when someone has a different viewpoint you can't just scream "Nazi!" and have them censored/banned from the platform.
Riley is a gosh darn national treasure. What an absolute gem
Canadian treasue. Is that like gold vs pyrite?