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Elon Musk says he'd consider 'alternative phone' if Twitter is booted from Apple and Google app stores
Fox News ^ | NOVEMBER 25 2022 | Adam Sabes

Posted on 11/25/2022 5:50:25 PM PST by SmokingJoe

Musk said that he'd make an 'alternative phone' if there's 'no other choic

Twitter Chief Elon Musk says he'd consider making an "alternative phone" in the event that Twitter is removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play.

Musk made the comments on Friday night in response to conservative commentator Liz Wheeler, who tweeted, "If Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should produce his own smartphone. Half the country would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android. The man builds rockets to Mars, a silly little smartphone should be easy, right?"

"I certainly hope it does not come to that," Musk replied, "but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone."

Musk's comments come after Phil Schiller, an Apple fellow who's responsible for leading the App Store, deleted his Twitter account.

Yoel Roth, former head of trust and safety at Twitter, said in a New York Times op-ed that the social media giant risks being expelled from Apple and Google's app stores if they fail to adhere to guidelines.

"Failure to adhere to Apple’s and Google’s guidelines would be catastrophic, risking Twitter’s expulsion from their app stores and making it more difficult for billions of potential users to get Twitter’s services. This gives Apple and Google enormous power to shape the decisions Twitter makes," Roth said.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: musk; twitter
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To: redangus
He should buy the Microsoft Phone software from Nokia and update it.

Fine by me. Android is garbage. My Windows phones just worked.

61 posted on 11/25/2022 8:45:33 PM PST by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“Trust Musk”.


62 posted on 11/25/2022 8:52:53 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: SmokingJoe

I’ll get one.


63 posted on 11/25/2022 8:54:56 PM PST by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: SmokingJoe

he could do it with ease.

think raspberry pi w/ a screen and whatever necessary to communicate with his starlink network in low earth orbit (30ms from anywhere on the planet)

now you have an internet device that can also do voip.

if i were him, that’d be my next move... to take over the cell phone market as he takes over the ISP market.


64 posted on 11/25/2022 11:51:43 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: SmokingJoe

he already has a smart phone dubbed the pi phone slated for release in late december


65 posted on 11/26/2022 5:53:18 AM PST by ckilmer (q)
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To: glorgau

my understanding is that musk already has a smart phone dubbed the pi phone slated for release in late december

https://smart-phoneprice.com/new-tesla-phone-2022/


66 posted on 11/26/2022 5:54:41 AM PST by ckilmer (q)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

“I really wish we could get more Linux phones around here.

Why are we waiting on Musk though? Shouldn’t we do it ourselves?”

Well we can, but currently the concept is limited. It takes pretty good tech skills to root a device and install Linux without bricking it. Then here are only certain makes and models that this can be done with because hardware support has to be incorporated. Then the apps would have to be built for mobile device Linux specifically. Then websites would have to be built to recognize, allow access, and to serve up Linux mobile themes and templates because these are mobile OS specific.

Musk is going to have all these same challenges. It is not as simple as just creating your own OS for mobile devices. He will also have provide the apps and to expect the whole industry from user up to add and incorporate his new protocol.


67 posted on 11/26/2022 7:46:52 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: SmokingJoe

If Elon makes a phone, I’d be in line to buy it...


68 posted on 11/26/2022 8:38:46 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: fightin kentuckian

Maybe even make it in the USA..


69 posted on 11/26/2022 9:09:58 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: SmokingJoe

Uh no. This is probably about the rumored Tesla phone.


70 posted on 11/26/2022 9:16:00 AM PST by newzjunkey (Vote for Hershel Walker by Dec 6th to stop Warnock (D) in Georgia)
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To: Kaiser8408a

Blackberry was great, would love to see someone create it and have it called ‘Blueberry’


71 posted on 11/26/2022 9:16:07 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Can’t download an iPhone phone app outside the Apple App Store without “jail breaking” the iPhone which puts it at risk. It’s a benefit not a feature.


72 posted on 11/26/2022 9:18:53 AM PST by newzjunkey (Vote for Hershel Walker by Dec 6th to stop Warnock (D) in Georgia)
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To: newzjunkey

Thanks. Did not know that.


73 posted on 11/26/2022 9:41:35 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Openurmind

I wasn’t even thinking bootloaders and rooting. I bought mine several years ago ready for use so I could skip all of that, and even then, nobody wanted to get off of Woke Apple or Woke Android.

And they still don’t want to. Even when it’s just a simple purchase, the motivation is not actually there to divest from woke.

It is true that the programmers making these phones have a long way to go before installing on a phone is as mind numbingly easy as it is to install Linux on a computer. But even with THAT amount of ease though, we still can’t get people off of the woke platforms.

Maybe Elon Musk starpower is what it would require.


74 posted on 11/26/2022 6:01:10 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (A man's rights rest in 3 boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.- Frederick Douglass)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

I got my fingers crossed. Anything better than what we got now. :)


75 posted on 11/26/2022 7:14:20 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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