Tim Cook and Linebackers, BMW Trolls Tesla, Maskless Flights to Tampa?

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On today’s show we preview our upcoming live event in Tampa on May 9th, The ASOTU Family Reunion : Remix. We also talk about Apples likely NFL deal, how BMW plans on retaking its luxury segment title, and could this be the end of masked flights?

• Apple may have already closed on a deal to own the rights to NFL Sunday Ticket according to sources close to the matter
  • Could be 2.5B per year (recent MLB deal was 85M)
  • May include Sunday Ticket, streaming rights, 49% stake in NFL Media
  • Intended to drive Apple + subs
  • NFL also contemplating its own $5/ mo streaming service to watch out of market games
  • WWDC scheduled for June
• BMW tells Tesla that their EV reign is over
  • “top executives said last week they are ready to bring out a fleet of electric vehicles, aiming to sell 200,000 of them globally this year — doubling the number it delivered last year.
  • Tesla took BMW’s top spot in the luxury segment 
  • Jan / Feb 2022, Tesla - 71,250 new-vehicle registrations in the U.S. to BMW’ s 54,210 registrations
  • The focus will be "on a very strong and fast ramp-up of electric vehicles," BMW Group sales chief Pieter Nota told journalists last week at a press event here. Tesla "had a unique selling point for quite some time. That's over," Nota said.
  • BMW Group said it expects at least one out of every two vehicles sold to be fully electric by 2030
  • Unlike competitors, BMW isn’t abandoning its ICE vehicles and will move forward with a blended approach to stay flexible and resilient
• CDC Mask Mandate for Travel Struck down by Federal Judge
  • An administration official said Monday afternoon that the ruling “means CDC’s public transportation masking order is not in effect at this time,” and that the TSA would cease enforcing it. 
  • Does this mean that no masks on the trip to Digital Dealer?

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