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[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 251 points 1 year ago (14 children)

You can literally fit the entire text on your phone

But not the photos, video, or audio. And I can't serve it to hundreds of millions of people from my phone. This truly one of the stupidest things a tech CEO has ever said.

Building a Plex server with every TV show and movie on Netflix is easy. Distributing that data to 300 million of your friends daily is where the cost is.

Using his ass-stupid logic, Xitter is worth a small box of USB drives I can pick up at Dollar General because the text from every Xeet fits on them? Might actually be true.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This truly one of the stupidest things a tech CEO has ever said.

Not stupid, just misleading stupid people. As the owner of one of the most popular websites on the internet, and the guy who killed third party APIs, there's no way he doesn't know what it costs to process millions of queries/day.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Yep. It didn't come across as stupidity (not saying Musk isn't stupid), but as someone blatantly borrowing from the Trump playbook.

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