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@RetroCoast they pulled an Apple but everyone dislikes it because they didn't put on years of brainwashing through marketing.

2027 Ferrari Luce This electric vehicle costs $640k but is being panned by critics who say it looks like a Hyundai What do you think of the new Ferrari Luce?

@_The_Prophet__ sorry but he is 100% correct on this.

⚡️O’Leary is right that Apple sells brand premium, but he is wrong that the premium is pure irrationality. He is doing the classic spreadsheet-brain move: collapse the laptop into “same functionality.” That only works if functionality means “can browse the web, write documents, send email, run apps.” By that definition, yes, a cheap Windows laptop can do many of the same basic tasks. But people do not pay Apple only for task execution. They pay for friction reduction. Build quality. Battery life. trackpad. screen. speakers. thermals. resale value. operating system. iPhone integration. AirDrop. iMessage. FaceTime. continuity. low-maintenance ownership. fewer driver/software headaches. high trust at purchase. support network. ecosystem memory. status. identity. aesthetic coherence. That entire stack is the product. The genius of Apple is that it turned hidden friction into visible willingness to pay. Most people do not want to optimize every spec. They want the object to feel good, work reliably, integrate with their life, and signal taste. Apple monetized that better than almost any company in history. The cheap Windows comparison also breaks because the $350 machine usually carries compromises: worse screen, worse battery, worse chassis, worse trackpad, worse longevity, worse resale, more bloat, weaker integration, and a less coherent ownership experience. It can be a rational buy for many people. It is not the same category experience. The deeper read: Apple is a trust machine. Consumers outsource complexity to the brand. They do not want to research twenty laptops. They want to buy the known good thing. That saves cognitive labor. In a world of infinite options, trusted simplicity is worth a premium. The risk for Apple is that AI could weaken the old device-centered ecosystem if the primary interface shifts from apps/devices to agentic operating layers. If people start living inside AI agents that work across platforms, Apple’s hardware/software lock-in gets tested. Apple still has enormous consumer trust, but it has to make the AI layer feel Apple-native or the premium starts looking more cosmetic. Final compression: Apple’s moat is not specs. It is trust, taste, ecosystem, and reduced friction. O’Leary sees the brand tax. He underweights why people willingly pay it.

@Nichola17893554 @jaegermedia1 started good and jumped the shark on season 3. terrible series

@jaegermedia1 Breaking Bad. Well, actually it started strong and ended stronger. The final season was incredible.

Is there a single TV show that started strong and actually finished strong? Seems every show eventually ends up getting the Game of Thrones treatment.

@jaegermedia1 GOT started good and ended awesome.

@GaryMarcus come on now don't be tragic. it's a very useful tool. AGI in 50 years

this sh*t isn’t even funny anymore. it’s a trillion dollar embarrassment.

@_The_Prophet__ real question is: would instagram pay me to use it?

⚡️Would you pay for Instagram?

@uncreativetom how dare you criticize the biggest marketing fraud in history?

love that the eu forced Apple to proudly display in store that their iPads are built shitty

@SawyerMerritt this is a flop, but at least it's not a monstrosity like the luce

New $180,000 all-electric Mercedes AMG GT 4-Door Coupe EV spotted in the wild. It's.....something lol

@TMTLongShort he was talking about relocating to Dubai before 2024.

When an investor I know is smarter than me is on the other side of a trade I don’t sleep well.

@cremieuxrecueil 311k followers. crazy.

England just had its hottest day in May in 250 years. It's too hot.

@dytomane @SteveOnSpeed @yonann dont really know about it lately, but what i said have been obvious forever. for 1800$ you can buy an ultra high end pc. there's no going up, unless you wanna brag.

@DeepLurkCrawl @SteveOnSpeed @yonann Still no. Price to performance MacBooks usually the same or even better now. The rising cost of memory and storage did not affect Macbook prices as much as Windows laptops. Plus M chips still quite far ahead of anything you could get on other laptops.

Kevin O'Leary says Apple's genius is making people pay 5x more for a laptop they could buy for $350 "you can buy an Apple laptop, average price about $1,800, or you can buy the same functionality for $350 on a Windows laptop" "but you still pay $1,800. Why? Brand" "you're paying a 5x multiple in some cases for something that is exactly like a Windows machine" "I put that out to people, they say, yeah, but it's not an Apple. So there is the genius of Jobs"

@NoFilterSkin it's just because dogs are much more agreeable, they literally worship their human. cats are cats.

Why do dog people hate cats so much? I’ve never met a cat person who hates dogs in the same way.

@SteveOnSpeed @yonann 900$ was the correct price

@yonann Tell me you don't know anything about technology without telling me you don't know anything about technology.

@yonann went to the comments to see npcs defend their marketing slop

@C_3C_3 non-problem

What’s the solution to the “Teen Takeovers” destroying cities? Arrest the parents, right? But what if they do not have parents? Arrest the kids, right? But what if the Leftist judge just releases them? Seriously. What is the solution? I got nothing.

@NipseyHoussle this is false. all entertainement industry, hospitality and food, real estate and car dealerships, work on weekends.

Interesting thing about being an American in Europe: Europeans don’t work weekends. Ever. You might think, well, nobody works weekends. But in the US there are whole industries built around it. Real estate agents. Car dealerships. Saturday and Sunday are the business. Not here. If you want to see a house or test drive a car, you take time off work to do it. Somehow this is normal. I don’t know how they pull it off. But they do.

@lakshyalark the ferrari is actually uglier. also is not a tank.

Double standards or is design preference subjective? 😭

@kmacraeplockton stop denying science and reality please

99% of climate scientists “man made climate change is real” Halfwits on twitter “it was hot 80 years ago!”

@archer_rs are you dumb?

Apparently climate change is a myth.

@Jeremybtc maybe apple was always ass

Ferrari paid Jony Ive to design a car and ended up with a kitchen appliance worth $640,000 that wiped $4 BILLION off the stock overnight. > Ive left Apple in 2019 and founded a design studio called LoveFrom with Marc Newson. > In 2025 OpenAI bought his hardware company for $6.5 BILLION. Their first device was supposed to ship in 2026. It's now delayed to 2027. > The Humane AI Pin, designed by ex-Apple veterans inside Ive's orbit, launched in 2024 and was sold to HP for scraps within a year. > Today Ferrari unveiled the Luce, the most expensive car Ferrari has ever sold. The first full car LoveFrom has ever designed. A 4 door 5 seat $640,000 electric grand tourer. > The internet hated it. > Ferrari stock dropped 7% in 24 hours, the biggest single-day fall since October. Roughly £3 BILLION wiped off the market cap. > The reveal was supposed to be Ferrari's iPhone moment. Instead it was Ive's third public product since leaving Apple, and his third public miss. The man who designed the most iconic product of the last 20 years has had a hard time finding the next one. Every project Ive has touched since Apple has been delayed, scrapped, or sold off. The Luce is the first one that took someone else's stock down with it.