[SmokingJoe]

Liz Wheeler
· Nov 25, 2022
@Liz_Wheeler
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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?

Elon Musk @elonmusk · Follow I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone 10:25 PM · Nov 25, 2022

I'd back Musk in any fight with Apple, any day any time.

[Brookhaven]

This is a bluff by Musk, and a good one.

Musk is using the same “crazy person” negotiating tactic President Eisenhower used to end the Korean war. “Will I drop an atom bomb on North Korea? I’m not saying. You’ll find out when I’m in office.”

The North Koreans came to the negotiating table the moment Ike was elected. They couldn’t take the risk that he was crazy enough to actually drop the bomb on them.

Apple & Google can’t take the risk that Musk would do this just for fun. The guy just burned $44 billion on Twitter not for profit but because he wanted to do it. He builds rockets as a hobby. He’s willing to burn big bucks on longshots.

[linMcHlp]

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[clintonh8r]

He should just buy an existing manufacturer like Nokia or HTC.

[umbagi]

I don’t believe they’re going to ban Twitter from their app stores; they’re smart enough to know how stupid and petty it would be and appear.

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.

[dragnet2]

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!

[livius]

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..

[House Atreides]

“…. 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.

[slouper]

I’ll get one.

[sten]

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.

[ckilmer]

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

[Deplorable American1776]

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

[newzjunkey]

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