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"They have hired people we've fired," Musk said. "We always jokingly call Apple the 'Tesla Graveyard.' If you don't make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple. I'm not kidding."

Yeah, not a chance.

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If Tesla begins to struggle, which is still very much a possibility, I could see Apple buying them on the cheap, maybe with a term in the deal to snub Musk out of spite.

At TSLA's current price, though, no way.

huh, why not? "If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em!"

Only way I can see this getting stopped would be if Musk used his poison pill: threatening to leave if they were acquired.

Totally insane scenario: Apple buys Tesla and Musk runs both. Right now sentiment towards Cook send too positive for this scenario, but as a Apple shareholder I'd like that scenario.

Except Tesla is not profitable and is heavily in debt, Musk regularly proclaims nonsense to manipulate sources of funding, while Apple is more honest, by far.

Source?

Not the original poster, but i'm guessing they are referring to Tesla including resale price guarantee in sale revenue numbers [1].

You can check out their SEC submissions as well, it's all public. [2]

1. http://www.investopedia.com/news/will-tesla-make-profit-2017...

2. https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&C...

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