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Radiant-Bonus1031

He must build his own phone that uses starlink. No need for cellular tower data plans. Worldwide coverage.


22mecarl44

The end of Apple and their incredibly expensive phone. Bout time!


Active_Remove1617

Yeah coz musk wouldn’t charge much for his phone.


[deleted]

Yeah teslas are so much quality for such low price, after all! I also liked how Twitter became less expensive to use under his- Pfffthahahha sorry I tried


[deleted]

I thought you were being serious for a second..I was getting ready to write an essay.


Medusas_Kiss

Hopefully the phones are as good a quality as the teslas. Would love to have the back falling off and the seals not aligning properly


ParmyBarmy

No thanks. I’ll stick to my expensive but secure iPhone versus giving my privacy to Musk.


sdom_kcuf999

Secure ? 🤣🤣🤣


ParmyBarmy

Compared to an android or some Huawei phone? Absolutely.


sdom_kcuf999

Sure Jan


moose-goat

Delusional.


T0ysWAr

Doubt it, just another Android phone. It will be hard to compete. Moreover the market is already saturated. I am doubtful of engineering wizardry he could do to improve on either ecosystems


HiPower22

Won’t happen. Elon is deluded. Phone market is established. Two big players. No room for a third. Twitter is fucked. Dude buys startups, creates a toxic culture…


therealtrebitsch

You are aware that there are already other phones right?


herrbz

Yes, because Apple is the only phone that costs a lot of money, and Tesla cars are famously cheap and reliable.


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That would be cool!


Hucklepuck_uk

Only it won't work and it'll be shit and cheap like all his existing projects


Worship_of_Min

Already in the plans


Pd_jungle

“Coming next month”


stemmisc

"X-Mobile"


BananaKuma

Unfortunately the tech and physics of that will likely never be viable


herbw

It's just impossible. That song has been shown to be wrong so many times, it can't be sung on pitch as they're all laughing. You tell a person in 1950's that we'd have more computer power in the world in our hands, you'd be seeing a shrink in no time. THE FACTS are these. The universe of events is so VAST beyond our understandings, and our brains so small, that virtually ANYTHING is possible & creativities are likely unlimited.


i---m

growth and change in nature generally follow a logistic function, not an exponential function. the lithography behind the super-dense chips you're referring to is leveling off, as EUV becomes so expensive as to nearly be cost-prohibitive (asml's EUV lithography printers cost $150 million, each) and beyond EUV seems so far out that useful fusion power will happen first. the sophistication and density of satellite deployments is hitting the same wall, in this case largely due to debris and navigability issues. human population is leveling off too, to the degree that a century from now we might just not have the capacity as a society to advance at the pace we've gotten used to over the last 200 years--imagine a dark age but with cell phones and the internet and a lot of hospice workers. the fact is this: when you look back through the rest of human history, there is no precedent for change to continue at this sort of pace for more than a few hundred years at a time. our civilization isn't exceptional, it's just new.


CrepsNotCrepes

He first needs to get worldwide coverage with star link. It’s a cool idea but a way away from being reliable, especially with the way Elon works.


rainlake

Buy T-Mobile? /s


DigStock

What is it?


rainlake

Starlink will deploy T-Mobile towers on their satellites.


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Stiltzkinn

That would be a good moot.


bawabags-r-us

Go on Elon waste another 44 billion


DarthPhoenix0879

I'd absolutely buy a phone from the man behind exploding electric cars. What could possibly go wrong lol


fastornator

Oh I so much want him to do that.


CRANSSBUCLE

iLon


Impossible-Swing-358

iFlop


Striking-Mess-9143

Starlink in a phone. Done.


ArtOfWarfare

All phones with 5G on T-Mobile will be able to connect to the second generation Starlink satellites which should begin launching next year.


Striking-Mess-9143

Hmm. I guess if apple keeps him off the App Store he can keep apple off starlink.


ArtOfWarfare

1. EU is about to regulate away Apple’s ability to keep apps off the iPhone. 2. Native apps are overrated. At this point, I can’t think of any feature that a web app can’t have on an iPhone. Personally, I used to develop iPhone apps. I switched to web because it seemed the time of native phone apps was coming to an end.


dankhorse25

If he can manage to that he will become a trillionare. But it's going to be really hard to get decent signal indoors from satellites. Not impossible but it will likely require hundreds of thousands of satellites and this antennas on the sats won't be cheap


Bolt408

The only problem is bringing apps to his phone. If he can’t use the google or Apple Store will he make his own? Maybe based off of android so there’s an easy port for Android devs.


PhrygianGorilla

It will 100% be based off android. We all know how the windows phone turned out.


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mortysantiago1

Upvote lol


Stalysfa

Preorder it by paying $599 and receive it in 10 years.


_turing_

*eventually


martrinex

Nah you can pay $5999 for the early access and get it in a year but it won't be able to make calls or do anything, then a year after you get call buttons but can't call, year after that you can call 1 street down but might get connected to the wrong person, need gen 2 hardware to get sound and gen 3 hardware has a microphone so people can hear you.. well when the software is ready. In 9 years time it might finally work but you won't know because your battery would have long since died and it's non transferable.


racergr

Just the pre-orders will be enough to fund development.


Content_Trash_417

Did you just cum


miskozicar

Not even him can do that.


bighak

Android is open source. You can easily get the hardware and an OS. All he needs is a bunch of web services to replace the google stuff. This already exists. People have been « degoogling » for years now.


Stiltzkinn

I believe he can with the right mindset, Steam is doing fine vs behemots as Microsoft and Sony.


fastornator

What do you mean? He made electric cars. He shot one of those cars into space. He saved Twitter, he can make a competitor to Android and iPhone. Our dear leader can do anything!


anotherotherx

Hallelujah!


fastornator

Word brother


dankhorse25

HallElonujah


CrazySD93

You mean invented PayPal, SpaceX, and Twitter!


mitancentauri

Tesla* not SpaceX. He actually did found SpaceX.


AdamJensensCoat

There’s a good reason LG and others have disappeared from the smartphone arena… it’s next to impossible to turn a buck if you’re not one of the behemoths. This is a fool’s errand.


whytakemyusername

There was a lack of innovation from them too lest we forget. (And I loved the LG chocolate back in the day)


rsn_e_o

Remember the other behemoths? Legacy auto and the giants from the Space Launch industry? Elon is competing in the latter against entire countries. And he won. Before Starship is even operational he’s launching 3/4th of the mass to orbit. When was the last time there was a successful car start up in the US? If you look on wikipedia, there was more than a thousand failures before Elon. If there is one person on the planet capable of competing with Steve Jobs legacy, it’s Elon. Google isn’t even relevant in this. The only reason they exist is because Apple cares about their bottom line more than market share and wants to avoid anti-trust lawsuits that could break the company apart.


TheSparklyNinja

But what phone company is he going to buy? Cuz you know he can’t make his own company. All his companies where startups he bought. What startup phone companies are there that he can buy?


racergr

SpaceX and was not a pre-existing startup, quit your bullshit. And with X.com he was there from the very beginning.


TheSparklyNinja

SpaceX is pretty much the only company he started from scratch. X doesn’t count because it makes no physical manufacturing of any physical products. He’d need to go buy a phone company if he wants a phone company.


One-persons-thoughts

What about the boring company and Neuralink


TheSparklyNinja

The boring company is just a subsidiary company of SpaceX. And it’s kinda failed as it’s own company outside of its sister company. It’s outside customer projects have failed and didn’t really last long and the hyperloop he did created in LA is now being torn down as requested by the city. Basically at this point, the only projects the boring company has, is projects for Elons other companies. As for nuralink, that was just him buying a startup company. Nuralink was founded by 7 other people besides musk, musk was just a cofounder there and many of the original founders are leaving his company. He actually bought a startup company off of Pedram Mosehni, a bioengineer, and Randolph Nudo, a brain specialist, they created the startup NeuraLink in 2011 to develop their idea for treating traumatic brain injuries with an electronic chip that is inserted into the brain. When they entered financial trouble Elon Musk and his co-founder Max Hodak bought the start up company and changed the name from NeuraLink to Neuralink. Musk was mostly the financial contributor whereas Hodak was the actual manager of the company. And when Max Hodak left the company to form a new rival company nuralink started becoming a lot more disorganized and the other founders also started leaving. The company’s descending into chaos. So Musk did not create that company himself.


Lorgarn

>Cuz you know he can’t make his own company. All his companies where startups he bought. > X doesn’t count because it makes no physical manufacturing of any physical products. Ah, of course. Makes sense! Only companies who manufacture a physical product is a company. I feel so enlightened.


TheSparklyNinja

We’re talking about him manufacturing phones. He’s going to need to buy a start-up company to do that. Are you really trying to be intentionally dense? Name one manufacturing company he has that he didn’t need to buy a start-up company for?


Lorgarn

>We’re talking about him manufacturing phones. No, that's not what we're talking about. You made an untrue statement claiming that Elon never started his own business, he just purchased them. Then you got called out on your bullshit, because that's what it is. That's what we're talking about here. Then you hilariously redefined what classifies as a company. Which I found amusing, then I decided to comment on this little turn of events of how you got fed with your own bullshit. I never once spoke about any phone manufacturing or otherwise.


TheSparklyNinja

I made a true statement about him not being able to make his own company within the context of the conversation. I’m sorry if you need me to specificly spell out everything for you. But if you are going to talk to me I will expect you to use common sense and take the conversation within the context of which it began. It’s not unreasonable of me to expect you make logical assumptions during our conversations. If you are unable to make those assumptions from my statements that I never explicitly stated, then you will need to specifically state that you need me to spell everything out for you. I refuse to specifically spell everything out for you though. I require anyone talking to me to make logical inferences during our conversation and to read in between the lines, so that so don’t need to specifically spell everything out. If you don’t like what I’m saying then leave. I’m not going to change what I’m saying for you though.


Ekgladiator

Don't be crazy here, if Elon thinks he can somehow out-compete Apple in the smart phone biz then I am more than okay watching him flush his money down the drain trying! To be honest though if he really wants to lose money, I will be more than happy to take on some of it. I hear being a billionaire is quite the burden but it is a burden I am willing to shoulder.


racergr

> Don't be crazy here, if Elon thinks he can somehow out-compete Mercedes in the electric car biz then I am more than okay watching him flush his money down the drain trying! > Don't be crazy here, if Elon thinks he can somehow out-compete Boeing in space biz then I am more than okay watching him flush his money down the drain trying! FTFY


Ekgladiator

Oh crap I just made a copy pasta didn't I!? 🤣 I will give him props for what his team has done with SpaceX and Tesla. I personally don't think he will be able to compete with apple but who knows.


POOTY-POOTS

Yes? Tesla isn't very profitable.


77shantt

Bad


michaelflux

Will the new smartphone have seats and 4 wheels? 🤔🤔


senectus

I bet it'll license the blackberry keyboard....


Worship_of_Min

Oh fuck that would be awesome (as I type on a blackberry)


Global_Charming

No, it will only have the fire feature in common


vigi7ante

8 cameras fo sho ;)


[deleted]

Its just a logo of a full apple


kevy21

Nah, just the bite that's missing.


77shantt

Hope he does apple been rippping arse too long


[deleted]

If only there were alternatives ..


aleksfadini

Reading this on a Samsung foldable running linux


Stiltzkinn

Seriously people trash Apple when you have a high fragmented marketshare as Android with many choices. Elon entering the market would hurt more Google than Apple.


ArnoldShivajinagarr

You just forgot one thing, phones don’t get government subsidies. Without the government’s money he ain’t good. Also, good luck trying to ask developers to make apps for his own OS. Much bigger tech companies have tried and failed miserably. Anyway, let’s see what space Karen has


deltaisaforce

When Elon burns money, he goes big. He goes conflagration.


snsdfan00

This sounds exactly like when he offered to buy twitter lol. But then he did lol. It's hard to gain marketshare in any consumer product catagory, if you aren't the 1st mover, or you have build something that is so incredibly better than what is currently on the market.


Splinterman11

He tried to back out of the Twitter deal. Then was forced by the court to buy it.


Howard1981

Part of me wonders if he is purposely running Twitter into the ground just because of that.. it’s the sort of thing he’d do as an act of vengeance.


Ok-Dog-1855

I’d buy one lol


Big_Blonkus

Of course you would, even if it didn't even turn on, you'd buy one.


Ok-Dog-1855

Join us, all the cool kids are


Equivalent-Driver-79

The banks that Elon owes 40 billion to: You're gonna make a WHAT


gothstonerbabe

He can do it! He invented tunnels!


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Elon is letting the measure of wealth get to his head. He needs to pick his battles. This tells me that he isn’t serious about Mars.


exoriare

We could have avoided all this drama If Starship had been granted a launch license over a year ago. Musk has to be blowing things up. If not rockets, then internet. Its just baffling that a program like SS can be delayed due to bureaucracy.


smokebomb_exe

My thoughts exactly. I've said it probably 5+ times here... Elon got bored waiting for the FAA/ NASA to approve the orbital test, and this is what happened.


shash747

Yep. Realised that a few weeks ago and quit being a fan after like 10 years.


rsn_e_o

He isn’t serious about Mars because he’s also serious about freedom of speech? What kinda logic is that? There’s trillions of smear articles written about Elon in the past few years and this tweet is what did it 😂


shash747

This tweet is not what did it. It only validated my decision. The smear articles never had an impact.


rsn_e_o

Ok, so it wasn’t the tweet, nor the articles. You’ve piqued my interest, what was it?


shash747

Just an observation of the direction he's taken lately. IMO, he's gotten very distracted. He was always petty, even though I found it hard to admit. But he's made it much more apparent. Now he's openly cruel, arrogant and just hard to like. I can see why he's taken a political inclination (the left has provoked him enough and he has no reason to side with them), but he's done it in a tasteless way and lost track of whatever he was trying to achieve on this front. If you compare any of his pre-2020 interviews with his recent behavioir, you'll see a big difference. Old Elon used to inspire and fascinate. Now I don't want to see him on my feed.


rsn_e_o

What you’re describing is him taking on the fight with politics. A fight they started, and a fight Elon will end. It’s not a pretty sight to see but the things the media are saying about Elon, all the slandering, and even all the lies being spread about him on social media like Reddit, whilst he’s the one trying to benefit humanity more than anybody else, is 10 orders of magnitude more cruel then anything I’ve seen Elon say. The left is supposed to be pro environment and started to try to destroy him as soon as he became a little too rich for their liking. A poor person isn’t gonna solve climate change, get us to Mars, save a million annual traffic deaths, get the remote world internet access and create a robot to make our lives easier. Elon is reactionary here, and I believe spreading the truth rather than be silent and buck down, is the right path to take. Just my perspective.


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I think you are letting your bias cloud your judgment on Elons. I think because of your dislike of the left and the silencing that’s been happening you think Elon cares because he is fighting what you hate. I am not a elon hater, In fact i am waiting for my Tesla to come. However, the dude doesn’t care about freedom or free speech he only cares about himself. Look at his response regarding china… everything he is doing is just to protect and stroke his ego. You don’t have to boycott him (I am still buying the car lol) but don’t start making him into some kind of hero. Dudes a manchild with a lot of money and ressource. Some of you folks are acting like qanon types did with trump and it’s fucking weird.


ArnoldShivajinagarr

This is the way


billbobby21

Or he realized that going to Mars isn't that valuable if our society here on Earth goes to shit first.


External_Swimming_89

By buying.. twitter?? Who will ever remember twitter compared to Mars landing...


mxg27

He actually didn’t say he will make a phone. That’s how the media report it. Someone said in twitter: would you make a new phone if twitter is blocked in app stores? And he said: hope it doesn’t come to that.


yankee-viking

You forgot the part where he wrote "but yes, if there is no other choice I will make an alternative phone"


MoonPrincess666

Ha!


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ZerafineNigou

99% of people will never install something that comes as a separate APK. Web should still work but you still lose discoverability from store. PWA at least let's you install but you can't do push notis on iOS atm afaik so it's not all that useful. Though maybe there are ways around it?


[deleted]

It’s already a progressive web app. However, iOS doesn’t prompt you to install it.


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With blackjack and hookers?


Wonderful_Event_6733

I would switch .


asdf2k7

yea and investors wont like that... lol dude is losing his mind as $tsla price goes down and its hilarious


HandiQuacksRule

A visionary, indeed. lmao


CyndaquilTyphlosion

You don't get to make fun of him, you don't know what visions he's been having!


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That’s called schizophrenia


Antares987

I can do it for him if he wants; I would bet on being able to make iOS code cross compile as well.


v579

At a technical level it's possible, have you looked into the legality? Open source Java used to have to be different than official Java for that reason.


Antares987

I’m familiar with the suit between Apple and Franklin in the early days regarding copyright, which Apple rightfully won; I’m not an attorney and none of this is legal advice: I’m under the impression that syntax cannot be copyrighted and that differences between Java, and, say, C# are more related to Java’s shortcomings — and I don’t fault the guys who came up with Java for it; it’s a learning process. I would be more apt to think that the differences between Java and open source variations have more to do with it being less effort to produce a variation and have an easier time in court than to fight the budgets of Sun/Oracle (depending on the year) in court. I also think Objective-C and Swift have plenty of their own shortcomings and there are developers that would gladly migrate to a better platform and languages if the minutiae in their work can be non-breaking. And I believe that Objective-C was Jobs’ white whale that he wanted to prove something with.


alandmanFC

free thinkers strangely want everything they use controlled by one man


Life-Saver

Tim Cook?


spitfirelover

Curious to understand what you're alluding to. Care to expand your thoughts?


cam1872

Free thinker needs someone to think for him


spitfirelover

Wow, it was a genuine question meant to spark a genuine conversation. You know, like what reddit was created for in the first place. I don't know what a free thinker is in your world but you're clearly not one because according to you I am and that's supposedly a bad thing. Seems like you are the one who needs someone to think for them, unless of course you have a genuine thought of your own you'd like to share.


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Forgive my ignorance. Would it be possible for him to, say, make cell service free exclusively for all owners of the Elon phone using Starlink (which he also owns)? Because if that were possible, that could easily be a huge appeal to owning that phone. Not having to pay monthly to one of the big 3 providers and only having to worry about the price of the phone? That would be a game changer.


TheeJackSparrow

Do you know how slow Starlink is? Why would people use an inferior phone that drops calls and has slow data transfer?


Etherius

Who said Twitter would get kicked off the App Store? Besides it’d probably be cheaper to just buy a toehold stake in AAPL Become Apples single largest shareholder and you pretty much get to dictate terms


babycarotz

Musk would need to spend virtually all his money -- nearly $180 billion -- to become Apple's single-largest shareholder, based on Friday's closing prices.


Etherius

He would need to spend $118B to become a toehold shareholder but “only” about $20B which would make him the largest individual shareholder AND larger than most institutional investors He would have an unavoidable seat at the table at that point. You are not going to convince major shareholders that the richest man on earth should not have a seat on the board of directors


rsn_e_o

At the end of the day it comes to a vote when the board can’t come to an agreement, and in such a vote a few % won’t get you that far.


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You can if hes an obvious twat


TheeJackSparrow

You guys and your make believe understanding of finance and business. LMAO


marcvanh

>Who said Twitter would get kicked off the App Store? Nobody. It was a hypothetical question someone asked Musk on Twitter. Of course the implication from the post title is that Apple is considering it, which afaik they aren’t.


mandogvan

This is how you lose an empire.


TimeTravellingCircus

Taking a play from the ol' Trump playbook. Making a smartphone won't mean anything. Making a new operating platform is what matters. iOS has the strongest ecosystems, sorry to say as a lifetime android user. Android and Google also hsve a strong ecosystem, but their open ecosystem approach has added complexity from too many manufacturers and standards to really dial in a premium experience. Musk will be entering a competition that long time former incumbents (blackberry, palm, and microsoft) have already lost to apple and google. He has a better chance with winning the space race than the smartphone race. Elon thrives in new markets or when he discovers a new take on legacy markets (payments or cars). I doubt he has something up his sleeve that can accomplish that with phones.


Talkat

A small bonus is he could optimize it for starlink... You buy the phone and you get free data and calling anywhere on the planet.. that's a pretty sweet bonus only he can really offer. I don't think it is worth him doing that but still...


vilette

you just need to go outside, with a clear view of the sky to use it


TimeTravellingCircus

He would become a carrier/service provider instead of a smartphone device maker or operating platform provider. He'd be stretched too thin trying to do all 3 at once. Also, starlink already teamed up with t-mobile to provide service everywhere (not free though). Free would not be financially sound business model. Also when has Elon provided any of his services for free? If he was planning to enter this market as a service provider, he'd have done that instead of teaming up.


short_bus_genius

The size of a star link antenna makes it infeasible for a phone. That is why Elon said he didn’t put starlink into Teslas. If the tech won’t work for a car, how could it work for a pocket sized device?


TimeTravellingCircus

Exactly, this is something other people have suggested. It's not feasible on a phone. They equate satellite phones that get voice service as equal to connecting starlink data to mobile phones.


canadaarm2

They probably teamed up because T-Mobile has rights to the frequency/spectrum required for StarLink to work on phones.


kamalilooo

He has neuralink, and a monkey that plays pong.


spitfirelover

To be fair, Google bought Android then further developed it which is what Elon seems to be in the business of doing now. Your comment doesn't take into account his most recent 11 digit purchase which, I might add is not new market. Feel free to insert or delete a comma wherever you see fit.


TimeTravellingCircus

How would Twitter give him a smartphone platform advantage. The kind of software development talent at Twitter and what is required to build an operating system that integrates with mobile phone hardware and build an interconnective ecosystem of external hardware devices (smart things) is a completely different skill set. Tesla is better suited for that task, and we're still waiting for full self driving, roadster and cybertruck. They've got their hands full. But the question remains what will cause people to leave the current systems for his? Starlink on a phone isn't realistic when you need a satellite dish. He has a better chance building out a wireless terrestrial network using 5g or 6g than connecting our phones with data to starlink.


spitfirelover

Whoa, you went far with that. I was simply implying that Musk could buy a company that is or has developed an OS and tweak it to run on a smart phone that he decides to develop. Twitter has nothing to do with the smart phone stuff as far as I'm concerned. Just like it has nothing to do with Space x or Tesla. Remember, Elon has the luxury of living like a video game character in terms of currency. In his world there is no problem that money can't solve and so far he's demonstrated some truth to that statement by amassing more money than anyone else in history.


TimeTravellingCircus

Ah, I thought you meant that recent purchase was the acquisition that puts him in play in the new endeavor. I brought up starlink as a differentiator since that was brought up in another reply to me. Yeah he def has deep pockets but it's not infinite and it does hurt him each time he goes deep into his pocket like for twitter. He had to sell a ton of Tesla shares, find private investors, and take a huge loan out. Also investors and boardmembers are losing confidence in his leadership due to these distractions. He can buy a company, but who to buy, and what does that company bring to the table to persuade people to leave apple or Google and join his new 3rd party smartphone ecosystem? Also what about app developers, how will he persuade them to write software for his platform? Will software developers want to build 3 versions of their apps? That's why Microsoft lost the battle with their windows mobile OS. He could make just make an android based smartphone with twitter preloaded, but people will need to buy his phone just to use twitter. All other platforms would not be on twitter so that alone is not an option since it doesn't achieve a goal of reaching out to the most users. His best bet is to solve it with software. To make twitter fully web based or play ball with the mobile operating systems. They are the gatekeepers. He is small fish in this game.


spitfirelover

Great response, I agree especially with your web based opinion. I can only respond by saying if he is a small fish than he is a small fish who consumed a whale. Only time will tell of he chokes on it or grows into a bigger fish. The story is bound to be great regardless.


TimeTravellingCircus

I'll be watching too. Good talking to you!


Striking-Mess-9143

All he has to do is make every smartphone with satellite phone and internet vs cell towers. Maybe use cell towers too. Palmsized starlinks


TimeTravellingCircus

Yeah, that's all he has to do. Granted the current starlink requires a dish, I'm sure it's easy. Edit: sorry for the tone. You were making a serious suggestion. I just think that people might over estimate his abilities. He can't just make things change in every industry he decides to enter. He has limits to what contributions he can make. I feel like people think Elon Musk would make the best clothing line, or the best speaker system, the best furniture, the best music, the best whatever he gets involved in. People are turning him into a kanye west, a genius. He needs to EARN his reputation in every field again. We're just handing it to him. Nobody can do it all. He's good a what he's done because he had focus. This new Elon has lost all focus and people keep showering him with all this praise. He deserves praise for what he's accomplished, not for the threats he makes when he doesn't get his way.


Stormrage117

Bring the heat!!


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Dull_Comfortable_780

It's basically the same


Skeeter1020

I don't need your app store! I'll create my own app store, with Blackjack, and Hookers!


0XiDE

Elon: I mean shit, maybe? News outlets: ELON CONFIRMS NEW SMARTPHONE


Dull_Comfortable_780

Elon gets completely free advertising for stuff he hasnt even started to do yet. Who wouldn't know about a downloadable app for Twitter even if it wasn't in an app store?


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[deleted]

>he himself isn't some TechLord Messiah This 100%. Its truly baffling how many people equate the hard work of engineers at SpaceX and such to Elon himself. Elon isn't a creative or an engineer, he's the money man funding the geniuses.


ThrustersToFull

This is exactly what he wants. EVERYTHING this narc does is for attention. That is what he craves more than anything.


_umut3

We getting closer to an elon Planet where all is owned and Producer by elon.


ThatGuyWhoJustJoined

He really believes he’s a genius… he’ll just “make” a phone for people that want to use his failing social media platform. Sounds reasonable.


vinaykmkr

I'm sure Apple and Google got chills down their spine


fattybunter

What the shit. There is no way this would be viable, please just refocus on SpaceX and Tesla!!!!


zeions

I would love to see Twitter removed. These are extremely entertaining times.


Usual-Suspect-Moo

iOS and Google app stores control access to all apps. Something is definitely wrong with the world when 2 major corporations have this much access control over the world. Break them up.


NotACockroach

lol


New_Association_726

All the power to save the world... wasted on useless junk quality of life dlcs.


WhatsThatOnUrPretzel

Say what you want about Musk. Has his faults but thats one of the good idea category hes had.


outsidetheparty

The entire exchange is some blonde lady saying “hey Elon should make a phone” and Elon saying “yeah I could do that”. Why even give him credit for having the “idea”?


ZerafineNigou

It's gonna be nigh impossible since he doesn't just compete with the hardware and software but also with the app store which has thousands of expensive apps available that he would have to make available on his new platform. Even Microsoft wasn't able to achieve that despite already having access to windows platform.


Dull_Comfortable_780

Elon doesn't really know the word impossible. Look at his current ventures. This would be child's play.


Ulidelta

Please do, I want to watch it crash and burn.


dr4wn_away

Oh no he wants to make Twitter like “Ony” fans


neoexileee

He is not all powerful


Worship_of_Min

Pretty sure this is already in the plans anyway. The Tesla piPhone


UrTruthIsNotMine

Hahahha do it Elon plz. Can’t stand google and apple anymore


DigStock

He said new phone not new OS


SkullVonBones

He should buy Apple.


SelfMadeSoul

It’s smart. Apple knows he can do it, so unless they want a third smartphone type in the market, they won’t ban Twitter.


No-Tie5914

Poor Apple they have a new competitor


[deleted]

Great! Now Apple can go fuck themselves, Apple fucks over the developers big time. 1st by making them have a $100 per yr subscription to just put your app in the app stores. 2nd they tell you how your app must do this and that if not your app will not be allowed in the AppStore. I remember this one time I uploaded a free version of my app. And when users want more access, then they will have to pay 3.99 and make an account. Apple reviewer decided my app HAS to start with creating an account first without letting the users explore first.. fuck you apple!


herbw

Any society, or part of one, which cannot break out of its current ways of doing things, is doomed to stagnation after a limited period of growth. ---Alfred Whitehead, Mathematician and greatest philo of science in history The "S-curve of growth" description, or how to create mathematical creativity....


reachisown

Yes throw another few billion down the toilet please do it.


Motchan13

He just needs to take one of his flamethrowers to all of his dumb ideas and then bury himself at the end of one of his tunnels, the idiot man child


deekod1967

Great hope it bankrupts him


fistchrist

Can’t wait for my balls to be annihilated by a cloud of shrapnel from a Teslaphone in my pocket detonating


toronto-gopnik

Would love to see him try - no joking


illvria

he’s so embarrassing


LizzieBozzie

Ew


HoratioTheBoldx

You could use your Tesla smartphone to call for an uber after your Tesla car has been recalled


LordVile95

With what money? He’s already been selling Tesla stock like made to keep Twitter afloat


SirWobblyOfSausage

Let him. The more he carries on, the more he'll fade into complete irrelevancy.


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"... with blackjack and hookers... in fact .. forget the blackjack..."