Agreed, I hate this trend. So many websites are now opting for video over written content. I can skim an article / blog post and glean most of the salient points. Video makes that impossible.
Theres a definite difference...Learning step by step to a voice and visual instructed teacher (in my opinion) is much more clear than having to read something and reread it to really understand it.
This is true <in person>, when you have confidence that the presenter is of high quality and on target. It's not true generally, because in reality the needle/haystack problem. Line of sight is better for parralel processing than serial/ sequential a/v.
IMO it's much worse. It's slower, less knowledge-dense and you can't jump around and learn the things you need the way you like. Reading and re-reading is a feature IMO, not a bug, and videos have all the drawbacks of sitting in the classroom without providing any of the benefits (you can't, say, ask the video for clarification).
LIU: [...] Is there any truth to a possible partnership, merger with Apple?
MUSK: Well of course it’s – if – if – if one or more companies had approached us last year about such things, there’s no way we could really comment on that.
LIU: Well did you have a conversation with Apple?
MUSK: We had conversations with Apple. I can’t comment on whether those revolved around any kind of acquisition.
LIU: Are you for sale? If there was a right price, are you for sale?
I admire Elon for what he is trying to do. But selling to Apple would be a complete U-turn to what he has said. On many occasions he has mentioned that he won't change ownership of Tesla till the mass market electric vehicle becomes a success. That would be at least 2020 as that would be the time frame when one can say whether Model E is a success or not. I hope he sticks to what he has said.
Edit: The title of this story was originally something like "Musk confirms talks with Apple".