Posted on 11/25/2022 5:50:25 PM PST by SmokingJoe
Nope.
You can't make smartphones with magic pixie dust. You still need rare Earth materials, and they ain't coming from the U.S.
Some come from the US, Australia and other countries. look it up. And Musk's Tesla manages to make and get all the EV batteries they want , more than any other company.
China has Africa on lock so it's going to come from them.
China has which African countries “on lock”?
Please elaborate.
All Apple/Google has to do is tell China don't partner with Musk.
You actually think Apple or Google can order Xi about?
When has anybody ever ordered XI to do what they want?
Just like the “Trust Sessions” nonsense you spouted here years ago.
I would not bet against Musk.
But then again, you have a History of making wrong predictions.
If Musk decides to do it, he will find away to make it work.
And remember EEE, “Trust Sessions”.
> He should buy the Microsoft Phone software from Nokia and update it.
Arrrgghhhhh! Had a Microsoft OS phone and HATED IT. ;-) I _believe_ Microsoft bought Nokia phone OS stuff for the patents. MOF, the place where I used to work was across the hall from Nokia’s team for location services (former Tom Tom) (or whatever they called it), we took over the lease for the office space after MS shut them down.
He hasn't.
Nothing has ever come of it. Just like so many of his fake electric car boasts.
“false EV boasts”?
Like Tesla being by far the biggest EV maker/seller in America and easily crushing GM/Ford in EV sales?
The Blackberry OS was the best ever...it would be awesome to see Tesla come out with a secure, Blackberry-like device, complete with a physical keyboard.
Its for the masses.
You obviously did not watch the SpaceX/T Mobile presentation.
US taxes and regulations say otherwise.
Contract manufacturers in South East Asia depend on Us Tax payers huh?
How so?
Over 90% of all smartphones are made in Taiwan or China. If they're made in India, it's probably the flip phones from the late 90s.
Neither of that is true.
YES!!!
I’m a retired programmer (They called me, officially, a “Senior Lead Software Engineer,” but, well, that’s just a pay grade, not management. I was just a pretty good programmer). Made a good living in Windows DB software, but since retirement I have luxuriated in the “Apple Ecosystem.” My wife and I have 2 iPhones, 3 MacBooks (2 Pro 1 Air), and 2 iPads, and love the interaction they share. There’s just nothing else available that compares favorably.
I hate the company and its pinko management, but the same applies to Microsoft, Google, and most of the rest. I love Apple products, though. Sigh.
This (the perceived AppStore threat) is not much of an issue, though. You can use Twitter just fine in your browser, whichever of the many options you use. This brouhaha is just the next verse in the libs’ little tantrum. They’ll be trying to defenestrate someone else next week.
That said, if Musk, or Starlink, or Tesla makes a smartphone, I’m gonna have to have one, just because!. It will be great.
You could be right. But then its always good to make emergency plans when you are dealing with fat left Big Tech.
Musk could study/talk to the guy at Gab to see how how survived after having Gab removed from the app stores.
If you forked the Android project then you would no longer be depending on Google for the updates.
A fork is a starting point. The two projects would diverge over time to the point they were no longer compatible and become two different operating systems.
This should scare Google. They could potentially lose control of Android (and thus unable to install spyware on it).
This happened to OpenOffice (which was an open source version of Sun’s StarOffice). It was forked to another open source project: LibreOffice. The two grew apart and LibreOffice has became more popular.
I gave up on Apple many years ago for various reasons. I like my Android just fine and it was a fraction of the price!
I’d back him too. They should be afraid…very afraid, even if they have the power of China behind them.
A lot of us (including lots of Chinese in China, if they could) would support him..
“…. I’d back Musk in any fight with Apple, any day any time.”
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I have seen no reason why Apple would fight with Musk.
A 3rd party phone platform would need developers to make applications for it.
That won’t be easy to do.
Any new phone platform would have to at least be compatible with Android or iPhone apps.
He's clearly bluffing. Have you not played poker? Musk doesn't have the infrastructure to make his own smartphones.
Fine by me. Android is garbage. My Windows phones just worked.
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