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Source? If true, brilliance on Bill Ngyuens end and shame on the tech press for not getting it.

I am in no position to tell Apple how they should spend their money but after reading the articles about Elon Musk today I can't help but imagine how the world could be changed to become a better place with all this money.

And I don't mean that Apple should give money away to charities.

Why not invest in space exploration , electric cars, self-driving cars, medical devices, green energy,... It is not Apple's core business, but "phones" have not been the business of "Apple Computer" as well.

Apple has moved humanity forward with the personal computer and mobile phones. I don't want them to stop with computers, smartphones, tablets or TVs.

I want Apple to aim for more than just consumer electronics - but I guess we won't see that happening.

Could somebody who has knowledge about data centers make a quick estimation how much such a data center might cost?

I am asking since I am not a data center/architecture expert but the Groupon site should not be that complex from my perspective? Also the content should mostly be static, so caching should solve many problems.

For everyone who has not read it: Aaron is not proposing the future of ground-based transportation. This is an analysis why he scraps his plans for a magnet-levitation, personal transportation system and a call for new ideas.

I think the question is not how fast you can go from idea to first line of code but how long until you find out that your ideas is worth a line of code.

That is an interesting question in itself and would start a whole discussion how easily you could test the feasibility of an idea without writing a single line of code.

I think Jack Dorsey is doing an amazing job and it is extraordinary what he has shown at Twitter and Square.

That being said, what we are seeing here is basically "story telling" and "legend building" in action. The same happened when Jeff Immelt took over GE and The story was "Look at that guy! The hardest working GE employee, putting in 100 hours a week. What a leader!" (you can Google it).

While I believe that Jack didn't craft a master plan for this, somebody is certainly putting some effort into building a coherent story that helps Jack but ultimately also Twitter and Square and therefore its investors.

And once again: it get's us talking as well, so I would say: Mission Accomplished.