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[Random Internet Person]

 

[ForTheHoard]

Elon doesn't need to design a new phone. He just needs to develop a new mobile OS that makes it extremely easy to jailbreak existing phones. The freedom phone guys are more or less already doing this, so he'd save himself a lot of trouble and expense to just buy them and streamline their operations.

 

[Tree]

It needs an OS too. Android and iOS have a decade+ ahead, it'll be very hard.
It also needs to draw in good hardware manufacturers.
I know I'm gonna draw some ire and disagreement here, but Huawei has been banished from Android if I remember correctly and has its own OS, store and more. Xiaomi still has access but is also threatened because of the economic war between US and China.
Both make phones that are often decent and range from cheap to elite top camera/CPU stuff.
I could see some sort of cooperation being possible, although China will likely intervene against it, which is sad.
But yeah, it needs an OS and hardware manufacturing, and it needs to be able to compete in price. For example, Starlink is insanely expensive where I live and there is almost no reason to bother with it unless it's some niche use. Same goes for Tesla cars. Phones are supposed to be universal these days, they have to be accessible.

Have you heard of pinephone? I've got one; it's a phone designed for use with a raw linux operating system. The original was underspeced, more to spur development of mobile linux (it was a lot rougher than it is today thanks to them), but it is usable (if you don't need google maps). They now have a "pinephone pro" with decent specs for $400. It still isn't and probably won't ever be for normies, but if they can manage that much, Elon and the people he attracts could make something work quicker than we'd think.

We've been given a tilted impression of what companies (and organizations in general) are capable of because they are all infected with PR and HR departments (thanks bernays) and managerial inefficiency be design. Elon seems to be able to cut through this I think in part by directly taking responsibility for HR and PR himself.

I think another big thing for Elon is he knows how to manage goodwill more than any bankman-fried ever could understand or appreciate. Not that Elon isn't ruthless in his own way, but it's a much more productive over parasitic ruthlessness. That itself builds goodwill with competent people who don't need their hands held by HR.

I digressed a bit but yeah hard to say at this point that him making his own phone is an empty threat.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

The freedom phone guys are more or less already doing this, so he'd save himself a lot of trouble and expense to just buy them and streamline their operations.

If he's gonna buy any of them, it should be Replicant OS. Those guys have come as close as humanly possible to have a FOS mobile device. The problem is that the newer hardware doesn't like to play nice with it, which is why their compatability list only shows shit like Galaxy S2/Note2/S3/Tab2. Hell, even those phones don't play 100% nice, as you need a USB wifi adapter to have internet access on it, not to mention depending on your carrier, you are stuck with 2G or 3G (no LTE), which are fucking terrible if you're not constantly surrounded by signal boosters.

If Musk is able to work out the hardware kinks, and include non-compromised apps that will attract normalfags, he could make fucking bank on those phones, especially in this day and age where everyone is paranoid about their info because theres new information coming out on how people's info is either getting leaked or datamined by the bad guys (Google, Apple, facebook, glowniggers, etc...)

 

[Aidan]

If he's gonna buy any of them, it should be Replicant OS. Those guys have come as close as humanly possible to have a FOS mobile device. The problem is that the newer hardware doesn't like to play nice with it, which is why their compatability list only shows shit like Galaxy S2/Note2/S3/Tab2. Hell, even those phones don't play 100% nice, as you need a USB wifi adapter to have internet access on it, not to mention depending on your carrier, you are stuck with 2G or 3G (no LTE), which are fucking terrible if you're not constantly surrounded by signal boosters.

If Musk is able to work out the hardware kinks, and include non-compromised apps that will attract normalfags, he could make fucking bank on those phones, especially in this day and age where everyone is paranoid about their info because theres new information coming out on how people's info is either getting leaked or datamined by the bad guys (Google, Apple, facebook, glowniggers, etc...)

Are Elon's companies not data mining as much as the rest of them?

 

[Kel1 shi1]

Gotta be sure to get it right that first time, though. One has to look cool talking on it while driving one of these:
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The Delorian was a joke until it lucked out (too late) as a pop culture icon. It's still an impracticable shit car but it's now cool.

If there was a phone that had all current functionality with a "Look how much money I have" markup and a brand attached it could carve out a niche.

 

[Kane Lives]

The Delorian was a joke until it lucked out (too late) as a pop culture icon. It's still an impracticable shit car but it's now cool.

If there was a phone that had all current functionality with a "Look how much money I have" markup and a brand attached it could carve out a niche.

Did you not just describe the iPhone, lol.

 

[AnOminous]

The Delorian was a joke until it lucked out (too late) as a pop culture icon. It's still an impracticable shit car but it's now cool.

The whole thing where the feds framed John DeLorean with utter bullshit for no reason and destroyed his entire business probably had more to do with that than the actual problems with the car.

 

[Kel1 shi1]

Did you not just describe the iPhone, lol.

I absolutely did, I know this because I was there.

 

[Tree]

And yet despite sucking his dick, I still can't help but think he's terminally liberal and ultimately containment. No reason not to think that until heads roll in any case.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

The Delorian was a joke until it lucked out (too late) as a pop culture icon. It's still an impracticable shit car but it's now cool.

Nothing you said is untrue, but that's a cybertruck.

 

[Kel1 shi1]

Nothing you said is untrue, but that's a cybertruck.

Agree, it's fucking shit.

 

[Vott]

This person also has a thread here in the Rat King board.

 

[AnOminous]

This person also has a thread here in the Rat King board.

And is relatively well-regarded despite that.

 

[Beavis]

The EU is going to force Apple and Google to allow sideloading apps anyways.

 

[ForgedBlades]

Anyone coming in and competing with Apple and Google in the mobile space is beyond a moonshot. Microsoft and Blackberry (and Amazon to an extent) tried 10 years ago and failed miserably, and it's going to be even harder today. And it's going to take a lot more than losing Twitter to make the goyim pay attention and convince them to enter a new ecosystem.

tl;dr not happening.

 

[George Lucas]

What does Tesla run on? My understanding is Musk is a Microsoft guy. He may not want to mess with Linux. OS development for phones isn’t particularly hard but there’s a reason Linux still hasn’t made success on the desktop.

 

[Dig20]

While #RIPTwitter was trending on November 18, Mosquito Capital, a *SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience*, stayed up until 4AM writing a thread containing a numbered list of 56 threats to the integrity of Twitter that might endanger it now that it only has 1000 employees.
(link to thread) (archive)

Some of the risks he foresees include:

(Click the images next to the list entries to enlarge them. Or just squint really hard.)
14. The site is unable to take down child porn:
27. Musk forgets to hire security and a crazy person stabs him:
28. Musk is put on trial at the Hague after Congolese militias use Twitter to coordinate genocide:
29. Rebel forces use Twitter to organize overthrowing the government in a country Musk really likes:
33. Agents of the Chinese Communist Party hack into the mainframe:
34. Someone hacks Biden's account and threatens to nuke Russia:
36. Someone takes down the company by doing "1960s spy movie shit":
37. The jannies can't take it anymore and kill themselves:
40. A jannie snaps and shoots up the office:

You may remember that some of these already happened before Musk bought the company. Twitter already let the Taliban use the site, Biden's account was already hacked once in July 2020 (although that was before he became president), and Twitter was already sued in 2021 for neglecting to remove child porn.

 

[George Lucas]

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While #RIPTwitter was trending on November 18, Mosquito Capital, a *SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience*, stayed up until 4AM writing a thread containing a numbered list of 56 threats to the integrity of Twitter that might endanger it now that it only has 1000 employees.
(link to thread) (archive)

Some of the risks he foresees include:

(Click the images next to the list entries to enlarge them. Or just squint really hard.)
14: The site is unable to take down child porn: View attachment 3938478
27. Musk forgets to hire security and a crazy person stabs him: View attachment 3928803
28. Musk is put on trial at the Hague after Congolese militias use Twitter to coordinate genocide: View attachment 3928809
29. Rebel forces use Twitter to organize overthrowing the government in a country Musk really likes: View attachment 3932622
33. Agents of the Chinese Communist Party hack into the mainframe: View attachment 3928821
34. Someone hacks Biden's account and threatens to nuke Russia: View attachment 3928197
36. Someone takes down the company by doing "1960s spy movie shit": View attachment 3928194
37. The jannies can't take it anymore and kill themselves: View attachment 3928185
40. A jannie snaps and shoots up the office: View attachment 3928176

You may remember that some of these already happened before Musk bought the company. Twitter already let the Taliban use the site, Biden's account was already hacked once in July 2020 (although that was before he became president), and Twitter was already sued in 2021 for neglecting to remove child porn.

#28 is absolutely the funniest one and I hope it happens.

 

[Foghorns at a Funeral]

Has their been any word from Apple or Google about dumping the app other than the cries of asshurt activists? I assume they are trying to bomb the user support departments with complaints in a liz no dong maneuver. Because speculation about him opening chipfabs and phones is good to have, but i feel like we are entertaining another "twitter is dying" fantasy here.
Would Apple or Google even do it to spite Elon in the first place and open themselves up to legal issues?