The loophole seems to be having an app pinned to the screen (I’ve never done this, but it presumably keeps the phone from locking) while requiring you to have an unlocked phone to use NFC payments. This doesn’t seem to be a common scenario (I can imagine doing this in some sort of kiosk mode, or giving the phone to a kid and locking the app so he can’t wander around).
Maybe all his companies are like this, it’s just the first one that’s been so public and shown his true colours.
I’m not going to look for it now, but there was a Twitter thread from last year that kind of talks about this.
Basically, SpaceX and Tesla are companies that grew up with Elon as an early investor, and have learned early on how to contain him. They institutionally have firewalls in place to keep him from wrecking the real work they’re doing, like dedicated Musk-handlers that slow walk his bad ideas until he changes his mind a few days later.
Twitter basically had none of those institutional firewalls, and could not container him with company culture.
Meanwhile, you have the Elon fanboys still pretending Twitter is doing better than it ever has.
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Well, it is, if you’re a Nazi.
To be fair, those are Mission Impossible chase scenes really disrupt traffic.
I need to point out that “aliens communicating in memes” was done by ST:TNG, in the Darmok episode.
Alien: “Shaka, when the walls fell” (essentially Disappointed Guy meme)
Picard: …
But how do you keep the ice cream cake from melting over that time?
Anakin: Self-driving cars will orbit the street’s so there will always be one nearby if someone requests a ride.
Padme: But they’ll regularly come back to a central hub for cleaning, right?
Anakin:
Padme: But they’ll regularly come back to a central hub for cleaning, right?!
The drawback of non-AirTags is that they depend on people consciously opting in to the network (by, say, buying Tiles themselves and running the app). The AirTag network just exists because every iPhone is part of the network, whether or not people have bought AirTags themselves. The AirTag network is orders of magnitude larger and denser than, say, the Tile network.
This vast difference between coverage networks will also push Tiles to extinction, as the Tile network is now far, far worse than the AirTag one, and there’s not much point in buying one. If you’re serious about tracking your stuff, it’s quite possibly worth buying a used iPad just for this purpose.
And he’s on a H1B visa and can’t leave.
But someone recently said he revived the NFT market single-handedly, with people making a bigly 1000% return!