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o be a little bit crazy and a little bit genius at the same time. And I think that the divorce broke him and it just pushed him into the wrong side. That's what it looks like because I don't see anything here that looks like a good strategy. Do you? If I did I'd call it out like I'd love to tell you oh you're all missing the clever play. You know if you knew as much as I do about persuasion you'd…
← Previous segment →on Twitter users to me. That would feel like a direct attack on the Republic. That's how I take it. To me that wouldn't look like free market. That wouldn't look like any kind of free market thing. That would look like just the worst thing.
And so my first impression was Apple would never take a risk that big because they don't take risks like that, right? That's just not an Apple thing. But here's my second risk. Tim Cook might be the only person in the world who leads Democrat who could stop Musk from creating free speech. There's only one person who could stop it. Now maybe you could argue Google too. Good. Too one guy. Do you know how much pressure Tim Cook is going to get from everybody he knows and loves? You don't think the top Democrats have already talked to Tim Cook and said you know what would make you awesome? You know what would make us love you even more? If you could just do this one thing for us. Just kill Twitter. Yeah and I think he might actually do it. It's the sort of thing that no rational business person would do but I don't think we're in rational business person territory. I think we're in a virtue signaling territory.
And here's what I think might happen. I'm going to make a tentative prediction that if Tim Cook removes Twitter from the Apple store that the board at Apple is going to remove Tim Cook. That Tim Cook would lose his job for that, right? Because I would certainly never buy an Apple product while he was still CEO. I wouldn't. I'd be done. I would say I'll still buy Apple products but you got to get rid of that guy because I like the products. I don't want to deny myself a good product. I love Apple. I'm a really big Apple fan. I have stock by the way so I'm not unbiased. So I love Apple but if one person decides to attack the Republic I'm going to act on that pretty quickly.
All right here is how Twitter can destroy Apple. I also own some Tesla stock and so you know I don't know if I have any indirect benefit from that but your current phone is an absolute piece of. Does anybody ever notice that? Does anybody notice that your phone is a complete piece of? Now it's a technological wonder but may I do a skit of me using the worst interface ever designed?
Okay here's me. I think I'd like to send a message. Step one: find which app to use to send the message. Now I'm in already my brain's in the wrong place. The message is in my head. I'm forming the message that I want to send and who I want to send it to and then I pick up my phone and the first thing my phone does is make me think about something else. Failure. My phone should be blank screen and there should be no apps. There should be one AI that guesses what I'm trying to do when I start doing it. I should be able to just do what I want and have the AI guess what I want, what I intended.
For example I would have a blank screen and pick it up and start saying um yes thank you please do buy those groceries we were talking about. And then as I'm writing the message I want the AI to look at it and say oh this person is typing a message so he doesn't want to consume information he's in producing mode. So at the top it would produce all the apps where the directions the message could go from you know WhatsApp to Telegram to whatever. And then after I make the message and I've done all my thinking then I'm done thinking and now I say well which app did I want to pick? Boop.
Here's what's wrong with your phone. It's built for the app makers. Your phone is not built for the user. It's built for the app market. It's built to make it a viable commercial market. To do that you need apps. Do you need an app? How many of you woke up and said you know if only I had an app? No apps are trouble. Apps are extra work. Apps make you have to sign on again. Apps make your password go away. Apps can kick you off the platform. Apps are all the problems. I just want to know what I want to do and start doing it now. I might have two choices either producing or consuming. So if I want to consume I was like oh I'm bored I want to consume and I can look at some Instagram posts and stuff like that.
So I think the entire interface of phones somebody and it could be Elon Musk someday somebody needs to develop the AI version that just guesses what you want to do and gives you the options but makes you think about it after you've done your work. So you want to work first and then do the details of where that work goes. Does that make sense? How many of you think that the basic model of an app-driven phone I mean look at all my apps this is nobody in the world would have invented this for the consumer. You tell me that there's any user who would say yeah here's what I want. I want to have to go search for an app and every time I got to sign up and subscribe and all that. Here's what I want to do. I want to open up my blank screen and say one hundred plus three hundred and as soon as I type one hundred plus three hundred I want the AI on my phone to say oh he wants a spreadsheet. Boop. And as I'm typing a spreadsheet appears and now I can just keep going because I don't want to pick a spreadsheet. I just want to start working and have the spreadsheet form around me because it's obvious I'm in spreadsheet mode, right?
Why does a document have to be one for a spreadsheet and one for typing? Who decided that? I need a separate app to put a spreadsheet in the middle of my word document? Not me. If you'd asked me I would do there would be no apps. I just do what I want to do and it all works.
So here's the problem that Apple has. Apple and Google are both legacy user interfaces and it would be really really hard for them to change. But if Musk decides to compete with them what if he does it without apps? What if he does it with a super AI? And here's what a phone should be. Your phone should have nothing on it but a password and 5G. That's it. Just a password and 5G and the minor operating system but everything else should happen in the cloud through AI and then it should deliver it to you. And when I replace my phone the phone should cost me like a hundred dollars because the phone is just a dumb screen and all the intelligence happens in the network at 5G speed or through, right?
How many of you think I'm on to something? Because here's the part I can guarantee. I can guarantee you with a hundred percent certainty that in a hundred years there'll be no such thing as a smartphone with apps. You'd all agree with that, right? Because there's no way this model is the one that lasts. It's just too stupid. So Musk can put Apple out of business he can't and the technology to do that only just came online because you need 5G or in satellites those are online and you would need superfast chips so that they could handle a remote processing and you'd get rid of apps and AI could get rid of apps, right? I don't even know if AI would need to build you an app. I think AI could just sort of handle what you needed without you ever being aware that there's something like an app.
All right so if you didn't think that Elon Musk could put Apple out of business he actually can. Well it would be hard but there is actually a path where Elon Musk personally could put Apple out of business with just leapfrogging the technology of the phone. Probably won't happen. Yes probably won't happen.
Did you see the Maricopa hearings about the election? Anybody watch the video from that? So in Maricopa there were public hearings before they certified the election. It was the Kari Lake versus Hobbs one where Kari Lake lost according to the certification. Now they did certify it but not until listening to the public just rake the officials for what a bad job they did. And when you hear all the anecdotal reports of these are unconfirmed things it's just people talking so it's anecdotal but the anecdotal reports are just vicious. If you hear them out of context you know without the officials responding to why it's not such a big problem if you're out of context it just sounds like the whole election was just totally just screwed the pooch like nothing about it was credible.
But here's the part that I want to summarize. If you knew that the difference between a Republican and a Democrat victory was how inconvenient it was to vote on Election Day because Democrats vote by mail more often if you could make voting on the day of a little bit inconvenient wouldn't that be enough to throw the election? That's all it would take, right? You simply have to make sure that it doesn't go smoothly on the day of and that's it.
Now you remember those machines that had been tested and yet it turned out that they were poorly calibrated for the ink that was on the ballots. Do you think anybody would be smart enough to know that if they tweaked that calibration ahead of time just make it a little bit below the level that it might take hours to figure out what's wrong and correct it and in those hours a lot of Republicans wo
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uld give up and leave the line? That would be a pretty straightforward prediction. If we can just make the lines longer on Election Day that's all we need because people don't have infinite time. They vote during the workday and some of them just need to say I'm going home. So it looks to me without any proof of this right it looks to be like the inefficiency was the feature not the accident and…
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