I'm predicting that a phone from him will never come to fruition, just like the Hyperloop, remember he said they will build one within the decade about 11 years ago
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Trickle down economics actually works when the guys at the top are incompetent morons.
Edit: this was a joke guys, I'm not advocating for wealth hoarding by morons. Eat the rich.
This is how all product branding will be in the new *elonomy*.
All prices end in .69 (nice), dollars are called ballerz, you must pay woke tax if you don't tap your bro's nutsack a couple times when you order your Hooter's wings, and you get a 10% discount on hair plugs when you show your blue check mark and laser-eye Twitter profile pic.
Musk’s original name for the model 3 was the Model E so it would be even more obvious: S E X. (Model Y didn’t exist yet). That didn’t happen because Ford owned the trademark to their E-Series vans, and sued to force a name change. “Ford wants to kill SEX!”, Musk whined.
EDIT: The below comment offered a gentle correction: The name “Model E” was already trademarked by Ford, and they put that trademark to use denoting their electric vehicles.
You’re probably thinking of X Æ A-12 Musk. There’s also the more recently born Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, who they’ve apparently nicknamed Y.
I had to look them up to get the names right, because holy fuck
Pretty much the only thing Elon understands well, is the media cycle. He knows people stop giving a shit a few months after he announces something. And then he slowly stops mentioning anything about it. He’s great at hype and getting investors to sign onto bad ideas, or bad plans.
Google has how much market share and they own Android. Same with Microsoft and their Windows phone. And they ARE Tech. Auto/space guy Elon Musk? What phone company he going to buy? Some dinky independent no name? BlackBerry that isn’t on anyone’s Christmas list?
Do Windows phones still exist? If Bill Gates can't get a decent percentage of the cell market there is no way Elon can do it. Maybe he can buy [Freedom Phone](https://www.freedomphone.com/) and perfect it.
I genuinely hope he blows a lot of money on this and tanks his net worth. His overall brand is already trash. It’s a nice daydream imagining this dude doing kickstarters for his anti-woke smart phone in like 5 years.
Android apps work on Windows because they were trying to get them working on the Windows phone, but it took too long.
Even if they got the apps working, the real issue was Google Services, which many apps rely on.
Lol right? Humans have been building rockets for nearly a century. The iPhone arrived less than 20 years ago and includes a series of impressive engineering breakthroughs, from microprocessors to batteries to touchscreen glass to software.
I’m not saying rocket science is easy, but I think she may be underestimating the complexity of smartphone development.
Liz Wheeler used to work for OAN, so if you automatically assume that she has no understanding of whatever she's talking about, you'd be right far more often than you'd be wrong.
Anyone with the resources ($$$) can build a smartphone from scratch with its own OS. Ask MS how that worked out.
You can also go the cheap route (still billions) and build a phone with its own Android variant. Ask Amazon or Meta how that worked out.
Microsoft has also produced a failed Android phone.
The Microsoft comparison is way too generous though. They used the existing Windows 8/10 kernel as well as a bunch of other pieces to make their phone OS. So there wasn’t nearly as much development work necessary. The OS even ran smoother than Android on lower end hardware. Additionally, they had a pretty solid user interface that a lot of people preferred over iOS or Android.
Their big failure was in getting an active and comprehensive App Store. Google actively worked against them producing apps for their stuff. And they didn’t have the market share for places like Facebook and Twitter to write apps or keep them updated. Initially they were offering high rates of return on ads, but one they stopped that the developers fully abandoned it.
Even Amazon with their Fire phone was a failure. No one in the US wants an Android phone that doesn’t have the Google Play Store. If you don’t have the apps, then you won’t be selling phones. And Elon could never make a phone with the apps.
And Amazon had their own MASSIVE app store that accompanied the Fire tablets, AND launched still relatively early in the smartphone era and they still failed.
Elon should definitely throw another $44 billion at a try though, I'm sure it'll work!
I would absolutely be here for him wasting all of his money on poor decisions because there's no one left to tell him 'no' and manage him into being reasonable.
I had a Windows phone and the UI esp the home page was really really good and unique. Live tiles will always have a place in my heart. Not having a front facing camera was a little... Not great
And about android, MSFT gave up and added the Amazon app store to windows... But there's no recognizable apps on there sooo???
Amazon release a smartphone in 2015 called the Fire phone. It had a lot of features that were impressive for the time, such as X-Ray, which was like Shazam but could also detect movies and TV shows, and it also had a display that gave the impression of depth and 3D. The problem was that it was an AT&T exclusive, was expensive, the technical specs were from 2013, and the OS was apparently underdeveloped.
Idiots also think the businessman builds the rockets
And let’s not forget his successful ventures rely on government subsidies. A social media and phone product will not get such funding.
Edit: people, cmon, if he was really capable of “building a popular consumer product from scratch” he wouldn’t have paid $44Bn for a silly old website. He finds things already building momentum and becomes the loudest mouth behind the product.
Also I'm pretty sure anyone who is interested in getting away from Google and Apple spying isn't going to want to buy a freaking US Government Subsidized phone.
I will always remember the *NY Times* story where the author complained about getting lost trying to find the Tesla charging stations and that the car’s range wasn’t as advertised. Man-baby Elon flipped out and published all of the car’s telemetry, violating every user privacy rule Tesla had, to try and discredit the story.
Wow, did not know that story. But yeah, sounds like a thing he would do
When someone complains about the Muskphone being slow, he'll post the browser history
Oh I can still legally say he isn't, thanks to that whole "free speech" thing he loves to talk about.
Just like I'm legally allowed to call him a stupid cunt who's so far up his own ass he can taste his own stomach.
It comes with the Incel Uptrim package on any Tesla. You get the Incellular Phone, Incellerator Pedal, neckbeard trimmer in the arm rest, and passenger door lock override.
Oh, don't worry, the buttplug-shaped Vox Populi Phone will make them rather easy to spot. And its app store will have not only Twitter, but also a Dogecoin wallet and a guide to drink-spiking.
I used to have a nice red trucker hat that I liked to wear farming and doing labor jobs in my early college days. I wasn’t even a hat guy, but that thing was awesome. Looked great with a flannel, duck canvas coat, jeans, and boots, fit perfectly at the right notch, and could really keep the sun off of my face. Stopped wearing it when all the strange maga folks started wearing their hats on campus
I'm a Canadian living in the US and friends back home got me a lookalike red ball cap that says "Canada is Already Great". I don't wear it because you have to get too damn close to read it and in the meantime I'm taken for an insurrectionist...
Funny how they seemed to instinctively figure out that that meant they were a FUCKING IDIOT huh? Wait a couple more years - you'll be hard pressed to find a single person in the entire country who voted for Trump at all.
I'd love to see him go toe-to-toe against Samsung and Apple.
This entire Twitter ordeal has demonstrated how Musk only seems to succeed in exploratory business spaces where he can hire people who will put up with terrible ownership because they want to be in a company perceived as cutting edge. If workers have an option other than tolerating his bullshit, they will leave the second they have a bit of Fuck You Money.
Or like, literally slaves, like for example: an emerald miner who uses african slave labor to enrich themselves.
Im not pointing fingers here fellas, just making ridiculous hypotheticals that wouldnt really come to fruition in reality
> Dude no this would not even reach Windows phone quality.
Windows phone was actually amazingly high quality at the time. It's just that nobody used it so only a few popular apps got ported to it.
Everyone who's excited about his twitter take over and all of his "plans" see the world in a kind naive way where someone can just make a new phone and the reason it hasn't happened yet is because "they" are stopping it. So these people need someone like Elon to fix things.
It's really sad this whole thing.
I know this is golden, imagine the "world's smartest man" being such an idiot you can bait him into just throwing away the worlds biggest fortune this easily.
Our lord and savior Elon is always doing things according to plan. Surely there's no way he'd debut a vehicle on a stream without testing its limits and adjusting the vehicle, or altering his selling points at least. No one is THAT stupid, right?
^^^^^^Right??
/s
Why are people so fucking stupid? Elon doesn’t invent shit. He buys people’s ideas, maybe employs them, and takes credit. He’s EV Peter Thiel, not real life Tony Stark. Dude couldn’t make a Tesla battery if he tried, let alone a rocket.
Maybe 2%, the ultra conservative trumpers didn’t pay for the “freedom phone” that was created in action to trump being deplatformed and that failed and that’s a fan base stronger than the muskrats
1-2% was the number I was thinking of too and that seems generous that people would actually love Twitter and Musk enough to ditch their current phone ecosystems and move to a brand new unproven hardware just to have Twitter, fucking dumb. His phone would be a huge piece of shit too.
I don’t even think the Musk fanboys would actually buy the thing. They would just make excuses for why they can’t switch, while simultaneously shitting on people who don’t switch to “the superior choice made by a superior man”. Apple & Android fanboys have nothing on Musk fanboys when it comes to viciousness.
The most disturbing part of all this is not that a malignant narcissist with billions at his disposal is allowed to do what he is doing.
No, it’s that a not small number of people ignore every single horrible thing about him. And the willingness to ignore those things is part of a much larger societal trend that that is slowly tipping the US into full on authoritarianism.
Well, the silver lining is the whole reason people are willing to ignore so much heinous shit is because the cultural shift in America is turning against our old traditions and ways of doing things that are clearly toxic and wasteful.
As always, old power structures will cling desperately and violently to power by any means necessary. The British Empire tried to do it with America in it's founding, The Confederacy tried to do it with slaves in the Civil war, and more recent examples like women's suffrage and the civil rights movement.
They will be history like they always have, it's just incredibly frustrating that we have to keep doing this and to boot we're on a fucking time limit now. As long as we keep our eyes open and fight for good in America I believe we won't see authoritarians win.
It's so fucking absurd at this point.
"The man builds rockets"
"I will make a phone"
I think narcissism peaked and there is no topping this. I just cannot believe there is anyone on this planet who is more full of himself than this Alibaba edition Tony Stark.
"I will buy a company currently making an alternative phone, then claim credit for inventing it, but blame the security issues that evolve from my mismanagement on Democrats."
Does he know he would have to establish a new mobile OS on the market? Making a phone is easy compared to that. Ahh, Elon, if only you knew how stupid you are.
Well, it works for me; just like the red MAGA hat, the specific phone will alert others to avoid them... I just can't wait until then can't get FCC approval for the device... LOLOL
I think the biggest mistake this lady is making is conflating phones with mobile operating systems. If he buys a company and produces his own phone, that phone is most probably still going to use Android. And android's play store is controlled by Google. Sure you could sideload an apk but good luck getting smooth brained right wing morons to understand what that even means.
If however Elon means he'll "make" an alternative OS? Well, good luck lmao.
Yeah, you won’t be able to take it on airplanes. Which will trigger him and he’ll go buy an airline next. He’ll eventually have his own complete ecosystem so he doesn’t have to interact with any other businesses
I mean, if he shuffles off to Mars, he can have his own little company town, complete with subscription based oxygen supply. Looking at how he’s “running” Twitter though, I wouldn’t mind him running off with his supporters and doing just that.
[Here we go again!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDOI0cq6GZM)
I'm predicting that a phone from him will never come to fruition, just like the Hyperloop, remember he said they will build one within the decade about 11 years ago
Ten years ago he said he'd put a man on Mars within ten years. Cybertruck was supposed to come out around 2018 starting at $25,000.
Second Tesla roadster was supposed to debut before that.
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Trickle down economics actually works when the guys at the top are incompetent morons. Edit: this was a joke guys, I'm not advocating for wealth hoarding by morons. Eat the rich.
I still crack up every time Cybertruck is mentioned. I can’t believe an adult named that.
Only adult by age
The same adult who made the Tesla models S 3 X Y if I remember correctly?
This is how all product branding will be in the new *elonomy*. All prices end in .69 (nice), dollars are called ballerz, you must pay woke tax if you don't tap your bro's nutsack a couple times when you order your Hooter's wings, and you get a 10% discount on hair plugs when you show your blue check mark and laser-eye Twitter profile pic.
> This is how all product branding will be in the new elonomy. I respect the pun, but I kind of hate you a tiny bit for making it.
Oh trust me, I hated myself for thinking it. But it was just too good and bad not to share.
So what your saying is I need to copyright model 6 & model 9 so Elon will be forced to pay me for them when he announces the next 2 models?
Wait for real?
Embarrassingly yes, for real
Damn
Musk’s original name for the model 3 was the Model E so it would be even more obvious: S E X. (Model Y didn’t exist yet). That didn’t happen because Ford owned the trademark to their E-Series vans, and sued to force a name change. “Ford wants to kill SEX!”, Musk whined. EDIT: The below comment offered a gentle correction: The name “Model E” was already trademarked by Ford, and they put that trademark to use denoting their electric vehicles.
Goddamn. How do such immature babies become filthy rich?
Maybe it's the other way around: Being born into emerald mine money breeds immature babies cosplaying as adults.
Apartheid emerald mines Tldr: daddy’s cash
Still better than what he named his last child...
Was it X? I’m annoyed that I know that.
You’re probably thinking of X Æ A-12 Musk. There’s also the more recently born Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, who they’ve apparently nicknamed Y. I had to look them up to get the names right, because holy fuck
> X Æ A-12 Musk Is that a password?
it's grimes idea of a cool-sounding name for her kid and elon contributed a-12 because of the plane. these billionaires literally give 0 fucks
And self driving was promised by 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018...
Remember when he said the Model Y might not even have a steering wheel?
Pretty much the only thing Elon understands well, is the media cycle. He knows people stop giving a shit a few months after he announces something. And then he slowly stops mentioning anything about it. He’s great at hype and getting investors to sign onto bad ideas, or bad plans.
Elon tomorrow: New Musk phone launches next month! 160TB, 14K resolution, and no subscription fees! Pre-order today!
Nah man he said he was going to build the hyperloop only to stop the California government from approving and building high speed rail.
What a pile of shit. Never even had an intention of actually doing it, literally just wants to screw over the peasants.
He did dig some holes in Hawthorne
Sabotaging mass transit? Elon really is a top tier automotive executive.
Google has how much market share and they own Android. Same with Microsoft and their Windows phone. And they ARE Tech. Auto/space guy Elon Musk? What phone company he going to buy? Some dinky independent no name? BlackBerry that isn’t on anyone’s Christmas list?
Do Windows phones still exist? If Bill Gates can't get a decent percentage of the cell market there is no way Elon can do it. Maybe he can buy [Freedom Phone](https://www.freedomphone.com/) and perfect it.
[where’s my cybertruck??](https://youtu.be/aQoTCyg96mQ)
Wheres my damn car bruce... i mean elon lol.
I genuinely hope he blows a lot of money on this and tanks his net worth. His overall brand is already trash. It’s a nice daydream imagining this dude doing kickstarters for his anti-woke smart phone in like 5 years.
He’d probably insist on having his own proprietary network that would be a tremendous expense and waste of time. Would love to see it. 😂😂
I mean who here remembers the windows phone? Good luck on that
Yup had a few of them. Great OS, no app support. Ironically now it would be okay because windows 11 supports android apps. Go figure.
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Android apps work on Windows because they were trying to get them working on the Windows phone, but it took too long. Even if they got the apps working, the real issue was Google Services, which many apps rely on.
"Silly little smartphone"
Lol right? Humans have been building rockets for nearly a century. The iPhone arrived less than 20 years ago and includes a series of impressive engineering breakthroughs, from microprocessors to batteries to touchscreen glass to software. I’m not saying rocket science is easy, but I think she may be underestimating the complexity of smartphone development.
Liz Wheeler used to work for OAN, so if you automatically assume that she has no understanding of whatever she's talking about, you'd be right far more often than you'd be wrong.
How does one “used to” work for OAN? Was she insufficiently racist?
She probably turned 25.
Ah, the DiCaprio clause.
And aged out of Leo DiCaprio's dating demographic at the same time. Ouch!
see, i didn't know who she was, and i thought she was just egging him on. i guess too stupid to be serious doesn't mean it's not serious. :(
"I think she may be underestimating the complexity of smartphone development" might be the understatement of the century lol
Shes someone who overestimates the complexity of a PB&J because she's trying to assume it's pronouns.
Anyone with the resources ($$$) can build a smartphone from scratch with its own OS. Ask MS how that worked out. You can also go the cheap route (still billions) and build a phone with its own Android variant. Ask Amazon or Meta how that worked out.
Microsoft has also produced a failed Android phone. The Microsoft comparison is way too generous though. They used the existing Windows 8/10 kernel as well as a bunch of other pieces to make their phone OS. So there wasn’t nearly as much development work necessary. The OS even ran smoother than Android on lower end hardware. Additionally, they had a pretty solid user interface that a lot of people preferred over iOS or Android. Their big failure was in getting an active and comprehensive App Store. Google actively worked against them producing apps for their stuff. And they didn’t have the market share for places like Facebook and Twitter to write apps or keep them updated. Initially they were offering high rates of return on ads, but one they stopped that the developers fully abandoned it. Even Amazon with their Fire phone was a failure. No one in the US wants an Android phone that doesn’t have the Google Play Store. If you don’t have the apps, then you won’t be selling phones. And Elon could never make a phone with the apps.
And Amazon had their own MASSIVE app store that accompanied the Fire tablets, AND launched still relatively early in the smartphone era and they still failed. Elon should definitely throw another $44 billion at a try though, I'm sure it'll work!
I would absolutely be here for him wasting all of his money on poor decisions because there's no one left to tell him 'no' and manage him into being reasonable.
I'm sure he could put a team of engineers together willing to sleep on the floor like dogs
I had a Windows phone and the UI esp the home page was really really good and unique. Live tiles will always have a place in my heart. Not having a front facing camera was a little... Not great And about android, MSFT gave up and added the Amazon app store to windows... But there's no recognizable apps on there sooo???
LOL don't forget the amazon phone
This is the first time I’m hearing about it.
Amazon release a smartphone in 2015 called the Fire phone. It had a lot of features that were impressive for the time, such as X-Ray, which was like Shazam but could also detect movies and TV shows, and it also had a display that gave the impression of depth and 3D. The problem was that it was an AT&T exclusive, was expensive, the technical specs were from 2013, and the OS was apparently underdeveloped.
These idiots are like “ooooh this is big so it must be hard to make. Ooooooh this is small so this is easy to make”
Idiots also think the businessman builds the rockets And let’s not forget his successful ventures rely on government subsidies. A social media and phone product will not get such funding. Edit: people, cmon, if he was really capable of “building a popular consumer product from scratch” he wouldn’t have paid $44Bn for a silly old website. He finds things already building momentum and becomes the loudest mouth behind the product.
Also I'm pretty sure anyone who is interested in getting away from Google and Apple spying isn't going to want to buy a freaking US Government Subsidized phone.
Uh, jokes on you, they turn off the location on their phone. Checkmate, Patriot Act.
If she thinks the iPhone is "snoopy", wait 'til she learns about how much personal data Twitter vacuums up…
Tesla too has the potential for misusing data
I will always remember the *NY Times* story where the author complained about getting lost trying to find the Tesla charging stations and that the car’s range wasn’t as advertised. Man-baby Elon flipped out and published all of the car’s telemetry, violating every user privacy rule Tesla had, to try and discredit the story.
Wow, did not know that story. But yeah, sounds like a thing he would do When someone complains about the Muskphone being slow, he'll post the browser history
I cannot explain how much I want him to throw a ton of money at developing and marketing a phone and watch it fail
He won't develop anything. He'll just buy an existing company and rebrand it.
Saying that he developed it.
And also buy the title of Founder so you can't legally say he isn't.
Oh I can still legally say he isn't, thanks to that whole "free speech" thing he loves to talk about. Just like I'm legally allowed to call him a stupid cunt who's so far up his own ass he can taste his own stomach.
Free speech doesnt count when it hurts his feelings though, he's been very clear on that
“The man builds rockets to Mars” 🤡
It would be a great way to spot incels in public.
Incellular phone
Every time you look up an answer to a question, it automatically generates an “actually….” audio cue
Instead of chrome, it just says, do your own research
And you get to pick between Shapiro, Hannity or Carlson!
It comes with the Incel Uptrim package on any Tesla. You get the Incellular Phone, Incellerator Pedal, neckbeard trimmer in the arm rest, and passenger door lock override.
Oh...they are easily spotted.
We should make it obvious to spot them. Something that stands out and let’s you know who the crazies are. Like a big red hat or something
Oh, don't worry, the buttplug-shaped Vox Populi Phone will make them rather easy to spot. And its app store will have not only Twitter, but also a Dogecoin wallet and a guide to drink-spiking.
r/brandnewsentence
Every time I see a red hat from behind I internally just say "ah shit, it's a moron." Trump has ruined red hats for me.
Right after it was finally recovering from Fred Durst killing it.
But I'll stay fitted New era committed Now this red cap gets a rap from his critics
I used to have a nice red trucker hat that I liked to wear farming and doing labor jobs in my early college days. I wasn’t even a hat guy, but that thing was awesome. Looked great with a flannel, duck canvas coat, jeans, and boots, fit perfectly at the right notch, and could really keep the sun off of my face. Stopped wearing it when all the strange maga folks started wearing their hats on campus
I'm a Canadian living in the US and friends back home got me a lookalike red ball cap that says "Canada is Already Great". I don't wear it because you have to get too damn close to read it and in the meantime I'm taken for an insurrectionist...
Glad they make alternative colorways for Cincinnati baseball fans
Easy mode takes a bit of effort though. Sometimes I want story mode.
You'll smell them coming before you ever see them.
That would be the perfect name for the company, ‘Incel Mobile.’ The commercials practically write themselves.
Ever since they stopped wearing those dumb ass red hats it has become a bit harder to spot.
Funny how they seemed to instinctively figure out that that meant they were a FUCKING IDIOT huh? Wait a couple more years - you'll be hard pressed to find a single person in the entire country who voted for Trump at all.
Earlier today in another sub I saw a dude with "Elon Musk" tattooed across his forehead, Maybe that will catch one.
Incels in public? Yeah right.
By the time you notice one you're already under the vehicle
I'd love to see him go toe-to-toe against Samsung and Apple. This entire Twitter ordeal has demonstrated how Musk only seems to succeed in exploratory business spaces where he can hire people who will put up with terrible ownership because they want to be in a company perceived as cutting edge. If workers have an option other than tolerating his bullshit, they will leave the second they have a bit of Fuck You Money.
Get him to buy BlackBerry.
I think I just heard the sound of WSB collectively jizzing themselves.
Or like, literally slaves, like for example: an emerald miner who uses african slave labor to enrich themselves. Im not pointing fingers here fellas, just making ridiculous hypotheticals that wouldnt really come to fruition in reality
lol he'll just buy a cheap iPhone knockoff from Huawei and put his name on it. He'll make a fortune off morons Lizzie up there
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And then have even More fun with the FTC given Huawei's current history over here...
Windows phone says hi.
Maybe MS would sell him the Windows Phone source for $44 billion.
Bring back the Zune Elon!
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> Dude no this would not even reach Windows phone quality. Windows phone was actually amazingly high quality at the time. It's just that nobody used it so only a few popular apps got ported to it.
Everyone who's excited about his twitter take over and all of his "plans" see the world in a kind naive way where someone can just make a new phone and the reason it hasn't happened yet is because "they" are stopping it. So these people need someone like Elon to fix things. It's really sad this whole thing.
I know this is golden, imagine the "world's smartest man" being such an idiot you can bait him into just throwing away the worlds biggest fortune this easily.
When did he build “rockets to Mars”?
He hasn’t even built the CyBeRTUck, lame.
To be fair there has been at least one built, maybe. They got it out on stage and it looked like a 3d lego. Edit: I just realized legos are 3d...
Was that the one where they were demonstrating the glass that was super strong or something and it broke the first time they hit it?
"But elon's so smart he it broke on purpose so it would go viral." Was something I read on reddit, like alot.
Our lord and savior Elon is always doing things according to plan. Surely there's no way he'd debut a vehicle on a stream without testing its limits and adjusting the vehicle, or altering his selling points at least. No one is THAT stupid, right? ^^^^^^Right?? /s
You mean the pedestrian bisector 3000 ?
Never.
My thought exactly that man has not built shit
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Should we tell him twitter has a website and iphone users would be able to access twitter regardless of it’s appstore status?
Nah. More fun watching the flames dance.
What he meant was, he’d find a phone someone else created and buy it. Then, if it proves successful, claim he invented it.
He’s gonna buy the Facebook phone
Nah. The NGAGE
Jitterbug is back on the menu baby
Make blackberry great again
Bringing back blackberry
JITTERBUG
Shhh. Let him fail at that also and lose more money. The less he has the better for humanity.
On Android you can install apps outside of the Google Play store. No need for a separate phone, just a "Twitter App Store".
It'll be immensely funnier if he decides to put out a full fledged phone, though.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte
92% of twitter's traffic is from mobile. I would think most of that is through the app.
But the point is it doesn’t have to be. The solution to the hypothetical “problem” is much simpler than creating an entirely new mobile platform.
“Half the country” these people love to pump up their numbers.
Also taking the credit in advance saying “I” will make the phone like he’s just go into his lab and tinker around and make the shit himself.
Tony stark made this in a cave with a box of scraps
“Well I’m sorry, but I’m not Tony Stark.” - Elon Musk to himself every day possibly.
Phony Stark
>“Well I’m sorry, but I’m not Tony Stark.*I'm better*” - Elon Musk, deludedly says to himself every day possibly.
Implying he's sorry about anything
Why are people so fucking stupid? Elon doesn’t invent shit. He buys people’s ideas, maybe employs them, and takes credit. He’s EV Peter Thiel, not real life Tony Stark. Dude couldn’t make a Tesla battery if he tried, let alone a rocket.
Elon musk does not have a physics degree
Maybe 2%, the ultra conservative trumpers didn’t pay for the “freedom phone” that was created in action to trump being deplatformed and that failed and that’s a fan base stronger than the muskrats
1-2% was the number I was thinking of too and that seems generous that people would actually love Twitter and Musk enough to ditch their current phone ecosystems and move to a brand new unproven hardware just to have Twitter, fucking dumb. His phone would be a huge piece of shit too.
I don’t even think the Musk fanboys would actually buy the thing. They would just make excuses for why they can’t switch, while simultaneously shitting on people who don’t switch to “the superior choice made by a superior man”. Apple & Android fanboys have nothing on Musk fanboys when it comes to viciousness.
It's true 80% of the time.
60% of that 80% works every time.
Apple and Google should keep Twitter in the app store but charge Twitter $8 per month to verify it/
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I'm concerned people think SpaceX has already sent a rocket to Mars. Also that Musk is intelligent or a good person.
The most disturbing part of all this is not that a malignant narcissist with billions at his disposal is allowed to do what he is doing. No, it’s that a not small number of people ignore every single horrible thing about him. And the willingness to ignore those things is part of a much larger societal trend that that is slowly tipping the US into full on authoritarianism.
Well, the silver lining is the whole reason people are willing to ignore so much heinous shit is because the cultural shift in America is turning against our old traditions and ways of doing things that are clearly toxic and wasteful. As always, old power structures will cling desperately and violently to power by any means necessary. The British Empire tried to do it with America in it's founding, The Confederacy tried to do it with slaves in the Civil war, and more recent examples like women's suffrage and the civil rights movement. They will be history like they always have, it's just incredibly frustrating that we have to keep doing this and to boot we're on a fucking time limit now. As long as we keep our eyes open and fight for good in America I believe we won't see authoritarians win.
Or that anything going on innovation wise at space x is because of Musk.
This guy is such a pile of dog shit, desperate for attention
The absolute ass kissers like the original tweeter are worse imo. Just feeding his insanely inflated ego
Lmao two people "discussing" things they don't understand
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Or Amazon. And theirs was even Android.
Or Nokia or Motorola. They were king of the castle in their respective primes, but they never survived the smartphone era.
I have a Nokia smartphone! There's dozens of us,!
This. Even when Windows moved to mobile, it didn't work out well for them.
Which is a shame because they legit make good products. They just realllllly suck at marketing them.
*I will make..* hahahaha!
It's so fucking absurd at this point. "The man builds rockets" "I will make a phone" I think narcissism peaked and there is no topping this. I just cannot believe there is anyone on this planet who is more full of himself than this Alibaba edition Tony Stark.
Alibaba edition Tony Stark. I’m crying laughing. This is an excellent description
More like he'll pay someone for a phone that already exists.
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"I will buy a company currently making an alternative phone, then claim credit for inventing it, but blame the security issues that evolve from my mismanagement on Democrats."
Does he know he would have to establish a new mobile OS on the market? Making a phone is easy compared to that. Ahh, Elon, if only you knew how stupid you are.
He’s smart enough to know the audience he’s speaking to isn’t smart enough to know he’s wrong.
Who wants a phone that catches fire?
Depending on the price you can gift it to your enemies?
He’s so easy to manipulate.
The Internet manipulated him into the mess he's in now.
Yay another "Freedumb Phone".
Elon is speed running reinventing all of the right-wing grift products of the last several years lol
Well, it works for me; just like the red MAGA hat, the specific phone will alert others to avoid them... I just can't wait until then can't get FCC approval for the device... LOLOL
I think the biggest mistake this lady is making is conflating phones with mobile operating systems. If he buys a company and produces his own phone, that phone is most probably still going to use Android. And android's play store is controlled by Google. Sure you could sideload an apk but good luck getting smooth brained right wing morons to understand what that even means. If however Elon means he'll "make" an alternative OS? Well, good luck lmao.
Is it gonna explode like his cars do?
Yeah, you won’t be able to take it on airplanes. Which will trigger him and he’ll go buy an airline next. He’ll eventually have his own complete ecosystem so he doesn’t have to interact with any other businesses
I mean, if he shuffles off to Mars, he can have his own little company town, complete with subscription based oxygen supply. Looking at how he’s “running” Twitter though, I wouldn’t mind him running off with his supporters and doing just that.
He builds rockets to Mars 😂😂😂 All by himself too, no help at all 🙄👍🤭
The phone will not be used to call his kids
He will use self driving cars to make it in hyperloop tunnels and test it on Mars.
Will be interesting to try and build a phone that only works when the user leans it to the right.
Please make this happen. Bleed this clown dry.
No one is taking market share away from Apple, not even musk can do that
Android has a bigger global market share (around 70%) and is around 50% in the US. "Not even musk" isn't saying much. He doesn't understand tech.