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A comment on Ask HN: Why did Cook refuse to take a meeting with Musk about an acquisition?.

Re:Ask HN: Why did Cook refuse to take a meeting with Musk a... by graderjs on Saturday December 26, 2020 @11:13PM (#25548753)
Apple probably has their own vertically integrated self-driving / electric car supply chain and their own self-driving / electric car product in the works. Why would the famously secretive company expose their future products before they're ready? Also, as good as Musk is at his work, Cook probably didn't want merge with volatile Musk.
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Re:Ask HN: Why did Cook refuse to take a meeting with Musk a... by Austin_Conlon on Sunday December 27, 2020 @04:48AM (#25549989)
Sounds plausible. On the other hand, Tim Cook went to work with the infamously volatile Steve Jobs, at a time when Cook's employer Compaq was already an industry leader and Apple was bordering on bankrupt.
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Re:Ask HN: Why did Cook refuse to take a meeting with Musk a... by graderjs on Sunday December 27, 2020 @07:54AM (#25550689)
Yeah, that's a good point. It would be interesting to look at that point in his personal history and determine what drove him. Hmm..
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