Today, musk can't control his "temper" and angrily spouted the "Apple tax", saying that the charging policy of Apple App store is equivalent to levying a 30% tax on the entire Internet industry, which is certainly not feasible. In the previous article "eight questions about Musk's acquisition of twitter", Sanyan finance mentioned that musk is the kind of person who "has few cruel words". It said that if you want to acquire twitter, you don't have ink, you must acquire it. But on the other hand, musk "talks a lot", not that kind of nagging, but dare to talk.
Musk is often "guilty of words". For example, in 2018, musk tweeted that he would privatize Tesla and even claimed that he had found a buyer who could pay $420 for his US shares.
These remarks led musk to be fined $20 million directly by the U.S. securities regulator and launched an investigation; Musk, of course, is not willing to be punished, but also keeps pushing roast regulators.
Therefore, mask, a ruthless man who even the regulatory authorities "don't pay attention to", no matter who, as long as he makes old ma unhappy, he must severely roast. In addition to spraying the "Apple tax", musk has also met Bill Gates, Bezos, and even Chinese car companies BYD and Xiaopeng automobile.
Today, we might as well make a simple inventory of the bosses and brands musk has sprayed.
Apple
Now that we have talked about Musk's "Apple tax", let's talk about his origin with apple.
In a book entitled "game of Thrones: Tesla, Elon Musk and century bet" published in 2021, it was revealed that musk had a telephone conversation with Apple CEO in 2016 and talked about the possibility of Apple's acquisition of Tesla.
On the phone, musk said that if you want the deal to be completed, you must make yourself CEO of apple. The book describes that as soon as Musk's remarks came out, cook immediately became angry and even responded to musk with dirty words.
However, both cook and musk denied the authenticity of this description of the book. Cook said in an interview that he had never talked to musk, but he had great respect for Tesla; Musk also tweeted denial, saying the book was false and boring. However, musk revealed that he did want to meet cook on the possibility of Apple's acquisition of Tesla, but cook refused to meet.
Musk also mentioned in his response that Tesla's market value at that time was only 6% of what it is now.
Musk may think cook is a little "short-sighted", or cook's refusal to meet with musk embarrassed musk. For whatever reason, musk sprayed Apple many times later.
In July 2021, musk criticized Apple twice at the shareholders' meeting after Tesla released the second quarter financial report of 2021. At that time, Apple was rumored to be developing and manufacturing an electric car and poached many Tesla employees.
When talking about the supply chain, musk said he thought apple used almost 100% cobalt in batteries, and laptops, but Tesla hardly used it. At that time, some cobalt mined in places such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo or suspected of human rights violations such as child labour. In 2019, Apple was listed as a defendant in human rights litigation.
Musk criticized Apple's strict restrictions on application installation. At that time, apple and epic game had a lawsuit over the fees and policies of the app store. Musk accused apple of building a "walled garden" to crack down on competitors.
In October 2021, apple began selling polishing cloth priced at $19 and 145 yuan in China, which also made musk laugh at Apple.
At that time, cook tweeted to celebrate the opening of a new Apple retail store in Istanbul, Turkey; Musk commented on cook's tweet: "look at the apple polishing cloth.".
Ridicule belongs to ridicule. Unexpectedly, musk soon learned Apple's "routine".
In December 2021, Tesla sold a whistle in the shape of cybertruck pickup truck for $50, about 318 yuan. Musk tweeted: "don't waste money on stupid apple polishing cloth. Come and buy Tesla whistle.".
Although a whistle sold for more than 300 yuan, this whistle was still sold out.
Bill Gates
Compared with the "dispute" with apple, the "love hate" between musk and Bill Gates is more complex.
Recently, gates and musk frequently "quarrel", and there is a growing posture, causing a large number of melon eating people to watch. The relationship between the two dates back to seven years ago.
In March 2015, musk and gates were invited to attend the Boao Forum for Asia, which was the first time they had the same frame. At the meeting, musk talked about artificial intelligence and said that the direction of developing artificial intelligence is right, but we should not act too hastily. Safety is the most important. Gates also agreed with Musk's view. After that, no matter innovation or driverless topics, their views are the same.
It is worth noting that musk has always been not optimistic about artificial intelligence and published some "Ai threat theory"; Gates is a firm "supporter".
Perhaps out of politeness, there was no dispute between the two in the Boao Forum, but soon afterwards, the contradiction between gates and musk became prominent.
In 2016, gates delivered a speech at the code conference, saying that the dream of artificial intelligence is about to come true. Human beings have made great progress in the field of artificial intelligence, and AI can even make human beings better in some fields in the future.
Musk also predicted the development of AI, saying that humans are likely to become pets of robots in the future. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, human IQ will stop. The most serious consequence is that robots surpass humans and become the theme of operating the world. Humans may exist like pets in the hearts of robots.
At this time, there were sharp differences between gates and musk, but this difference of views evolved into a bit of "looking down on each other" over time.
In 2018, Bill Gates publicly questioned Musk's "super high speed rail" project at an event. He said: "I'm not sure whether the concept of super high speed rail is meaningful. It's difficult to make it safe." However, gates did not completely deny musk at that time. He stressed that he was optimistic about electric vehicles and autonomous vehicle.
Unexpectedly, musk did not respond to Gates' comment. As a result, gates gradually began to "advance by an inch".
In February 2019, gates talked about Tesla in an interview, saying that Tesla is an amazing company and very popular. I thought he would boast a lot, but I didn't expect gates to change the subject. He said frankly that Tesla still accounts for a small market share, and Tesla's situation will be more difficult without the government tax credit. Gates said that as more electric vehicle manufacturers join, there will be great electric vehicles to choose from in the future.
Similarly, musk did not respond to Gates' remarks.
In 2020, Gates once again evaluated Tesla in a "confusing" way. He first praised Tesla as the leader in the electric vehicle market in the interview, and stressed that "Tesla is absolutely incredible. They have great products and high popularity".
However, after praising Tesla, gates suddenly said: "I just bought a Porsche electric car taycan", and revealed that this is his first electric car. "Although the premium of Porsche taycan is very high, it is very cool and I like it very much".
Gates' remarks were really confusing, but musk didn't keep silent this time. Musk responded to fans on Twitter and said, "I talked to Bill Gates, but it's very boring.".
Since then, Bill Gates and musk began to become more tit for tat.
In May, 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic began to break out on a large scale in Europe and the United States. At that time, musk once tweeted that "it is foolish to panic about novel coronavirus". Musk's "confusing" remarks naturally caused a lot of controversy.
Gates, who has been investing heavily in the medical field, attacked musk mercilessly this time. In July 2020, Gates said on CNBC that musk did well in electric vehicles and rockets, but he did not participate in vaccine research and development and did not understand this field, so don't comment on areas he didn't understand.
For Gates' evaluation, musk suddenly sent two consecutive tweets: "Billy G is not my lover" and "the rumor that Bill Gates and I are lovers is completely false".
Musk's remark quickly became popular, and netizens simply began to knock up his two people's "CP". Then musk tweeted, "I... I died in your arms tonight". This is pushing himself and gates to the top of public opinion.
However, Bill Gates did not respond to Musk's coquettish operation. "Knock two CP" gradually came to an end, but the quarrel between the two is far from over.
In September 2020, gates pointed out in an article that electric vehicles will be the mainstream in the future, but even if there is a major breakthrough in battery technology, trucks, cargo ships, passenger aircraft and other products cannot use batteries as practical solutions. Gates even directly named Tesla's electric truck semi "unlikely to become a reality".
In this regard, musk responded impolitely that "he doesn't know anything about electric trucks".
Musk and gates are facing each other. So far, musk has even begun to "personally attack" gates.
Last month, some netizens exposed a chat record between musk and gates, which showed that musk questioned whether gates held a short position of $500 million in Tesla. After receiving a positive reply, musk rejected Gates's invitation to discuss philanthropy.
Shortly after the exposure of this record, musk tweeted to confirm that the content was true, and also sent an Emoji expression picture to ridicule Gates's figure.
On May 5, Bill Gates commented on Musk's acquisition of twitter, "this is not what he is best at. His achievements in Tesla and SpaceX are very shocking. He has formed a great team of engineers and brought out those who work in these fields, so that they really see hope. But after the acquisition of twitter, I doubt whether he can do it again."
At present, musk has not responded, but the two Liangzi have obviously settled. When will the dispute between them last?
Zuckerberg
Like Bill Gates, Zuckerberg is also a supporter of artificial intelligence, which also led to a quarrel between Zuckerberg and musk. However, the originator of all this may be due to the failure of SpaceX rocket launch in 2016.
In 2016, SpaceX launched a satellite of Facebook, but the launch failed. At that time, Zuckerberg declared, "we are deeply disappointed that our satellite was damaged due to the failure of SpaceX rocket launch. It could have provided Internet services for many people on the African continent."
Maybe musk screwed up Facebook's satellite plan. Zack Burke was upset and didn't deal with musk.
In 2017, in response to Musk's "Ai threat theory", Zuckerberg once said that "artificial intelligence will make our lives better in the future, and doomsday theory is very irresponsible. I think some people who always disagree are trying to incite doomsday theory. I really don't understand, it's too negative, and sometimes I think it's very irresponsible."
Musk immediately countered, "I discussed this with Zuckerberg. He knows too little about AI."
Musk even directly cancelled two facebook accounts with more than 5 million fans, SpaceX and Tesla.
In 2018, Facebook was accused of secretly stealing user information to help trump win the US election.
During this period, musk tweeted, "what is Facebook?" Then a netizen activist musk said, "if you are a man, you should delete the facebook accounts of SpaceX and Tesla".
As a result, the official facebook accounts of Tesla and SpaceX were really cancelled, with more than 5 million fans.
Sure enough, musk has long proved that he is a cruel man who will do what he says and do what he does.
Bezos
There are more or less different positions and views between Mascherano, Bill Gates and Zuckerberg, but he and Amazon Bezos can be said to be real peers and enemies.
The business direction of Amazon and musk is currently competitive, which also makes the smell of gunpowder between Bezos and musk stronger.
After Bezos announced his plan to establish a space Internet in April 19, musk tweeted that he was a "copycat".
On the one hand, this is because SpaceX launched a similar plan in February 2018, that is, the star chain project; On the other hand, Tesla had a lawsuit with zoox, an autonomous driving company acquired by Amazon, over disputes such as theft of trade secrets, and finally reached a settlement with zoox's apology and compensation.
Of course, Bezos also criticized Musk's "landing on Mars" plan as wrong. Bezos believed that it was impossible to skip the moon and land on Mars directly.
Subsequently, SpaceX and blue origin competed in rocket recycling, marine recycling and other businesses.
Major car enterprises
In addition to antagonizing all kinds of technology industry leaders, musk still does not let go of major automobile enterprises, even Chinese automobile enterprises Weilai, Xiaopeng BYD, etc.
In 2017, musk ridiculed Toyota, a traditional car company: "incredibly stupid", and Toyota responded that "maybe it is.". In November 2020, at the Toyota earnings conference, Akio Toyoda commented on Tesla: "Tesla is like a restaurant promoting and selling novel recipes... In fact, it has not created any real business."
"If the traffic is heavy, the car in front will emit harmful gases and directly enter your air-conditioning air inlet. Fortunately, the internal combustion engine manufacturers have not cheated on emissions, or they will be in trouble," Musk commented
For Ford, musk described its production workshop as a morgue. Ford responded that a high-tech and high-quality F-150 goes off the production line of Ford Rouge factory every 53 seconds. Elon should check what's wrong with his factory;
Musk also criticized GM's investment in the field of automatic driving for quick success and instant benefit. "A team of programmers with automatic driving software demonstration sold $1 billion"; While the former vice president of General Motors returned, Tesla is going bankrupt.
When Volkswagen encountered the "emission gate" incident, musk joked, "if I take over Volkswagen, I will lead Volkswagen to become the leader of zero emission vehicles". Former Volkswagen CEO Mueller said Tesla is a world champion in boasting.
Several domestic car companies were not spared.
At the end of 2020, the share price of Weilai automobile was $42 / share, while the share price of Tesla was $420 / us share. Musk commented bluntly that "420 is ten times that of 42".
In the same year, after Xiaopeng automobile demonstrated its latest auto drive system, musk commented that "Xiaopeng automobile has the old version of Tesla software, but does not have the latest neural network computer". He Xiaopeng responded at that time: "be ready to be beaten by us next year and can't find the East".
Recently, BYD announced the sales of 106000 new energy vehicles in April, a year-on-year increase of 387.94%. It is worth noting that this sales volume data is the first time that the sales volume of domestic automobile enterprises exceeds that of joint venture brands.
Although BYD has achieved such good results, it has been severely despised by musk.
According to a previous video interview with musk, when asked about BYD, musk laughed directly, expressed disdain and said frankly, "I don't think BYD has any good products".
However, for Musk's evaluation, BYD's achievements now are the most rigid response.
There is a saying called "temper and strength coexist, and a temper without strength is just incompetent rage". Although musk is straight, he may not be liked by everyone, but it must be admitted that he has the strength to excel in many fields.