Elon Musk just said he'll make his own phones if Apple & Google app stores drop Twitter

[highplainsdem]

He tweeted this just a few minutes ago:

Link to tweet

[ret5hd]

1. Russian and Chinese hacking/tracking viruses free with every purchase!!! Act NOW!

[WA-03 Democrat]

15. Mediatek

Processors! We you want to infect the very best!

Alibaba has them out the ying yang.

[hildegaard28]

2. And Google and Apple

laugh and laugh.

[TheBlackAdder]

22. Eloon Musk WEENIE HUT JR Phones

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[Ray Bruns]

25. I'm 58 and I love that episode.

What is wrong with me?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Good luck with that Elon.

Who wants to work with you after what you did to Twitter?

[declanwxyz]

64. Good luck indeed

He can't even run twitter which is his first hands on project and only has a couple thousand employees left. But somehow he is going to compete with Apple and Android. Yeah I don't think so.

[relayerbob]

4. C'mon Elon, do it!!

Drain that bank account, destroy another company ... run it down all the way to zero, so we don't have to hear about you again

[lindysalsagal]

5. World record fail.

How can 1 guy screw so much up?

[PatSeg]

58. It seems to be some kind of virus

that only infects arrogant assholes. Kanye and Trump come to mind as well. Or maybe it is those extraterrestrial worms eating their brains - "Braindead", I think of that show often when I watch these fools self-destruct.

[Solly Mack]

6. The E.Lon. It self-dials then explodes.

[Lovie777]

7. Seems like a slow death for twitter......

millions are already fleeing. All he will have is hateful people where many countries will ban.

[RussBLib]

8. Does having a lot of money.....

.....make you think you can do anything at all that you want in the world? Looks like he's getting spread a little thin, and I've already heard him complain he's got too much on his plate. Hey, create an airline while you're at it? How about building homes? A semiconductor business? You're already running a circus.

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. I'm betting that Elon is running for President in 2024.

His fascist Twitter followers will love it.

[GrapesOfWrath]

16. Thankfully

He was born in South Africa and is not eligible to run. Dodged that bullet!

[WheelWalker]

19. He'll just buy the Constitution, don't 'cha know?

[Yavin4]

28. Well. SCOTUS is for sale.

That's for sure.

[yankee87]

69. Scary

I wish I could say this is not possible, but I'm not 100% sure

[OAITW r.2.0]

21. Good point! I forgot about that.

Thanks Founding Fathers for adding that caveat to the Constitutional qualifications.

[area51]

42. Er,

Romney was born in Mexico, Rafael "Ted" Cruz was born in Canada, and John McCain was born in Panama, but it didn't stop them from running.

[liberaltrucker]

43. Doesn't matter, their parents were US citizens

nt

[Demsrule86]

48. His parents were South Africans.

[liberaltrucker]

56. I was referring to Cruz, Romney, and McCain

[Demsrule86]

68. I think an argument could be made that Cruz is not qualified. Romney was born in Detroit.

McCain's Dad was stationed overseas and as such was qualified to run for president.

[GrapesOfWrath]

66. I know there was some bullshit with Cruz but I thought

Romney was born in Detroit 🤷🏻‍♀️. McCain was another one who was cleared on a technicality because his father was deployed? Not sure.

Just looked it up evidently the rule is that both parents have to be US citizens at the time of the candidates’ birth.

Sounds suss to me…

[Demsrule86]

47. He was born in South Africa and thus can't run for president.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. If he earned the money I might see that

But he got his money the old-fashioned way. He inherited it.

Trump and he have that in common.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. Add in a couple of casinos, steaks, and vodka companies. It'll be a re-run.

[RussBLib]

27. Yeah, Musk is morphing into T****

Money went right to their little heads, not their brains.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

46. ...

[PatSeg]

60. Except Musk has a lot more to lose

and he seems to be an overachiever in that respect - like some kind of race to the bottom.

[3Hotdogs]

29. I know.

A real estate school and a casino.

[BootinUp]

9. I think that is their cue. nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. I'm sure it'll be as successful as hyperloop

Or his colony on Mars.

[WestMichRad]

13. Good luck finding a way past all the patents!

Sucker.

[WA-03 Democrat]

14. Sure!

You have money to piss away. Proceed

What happen to the promise of $6B for world hunger?

Or the Cyber Truck?

Oh thats right he's not an engineer and cannot design his way out of wet paper bag.

He is only a conman born on 3rd base and has an ego bigger than South Africa.

[Hortensis]

17. Oh, sure. I for one will rush to wait for it. Not.

Half the country...!

[dalton99a]

18. For a modest premium of 33%, you can put the phone in a self-dialing mode

and have it call everyone in the world randomly

[OilemFirchen]

23. Everybody "builds" phones.

That's not the point, is it? What O.S. will power the Musky phone?

I hear that the Windows phone platform is available real cheap. Bonus to Eloon: It's already failed, so you can skip that process right off the bat.

[blogslug]

55. exactly

He's FOS

[Faux pas]

24. HA HA HA

[Cha]

26. I'm glad I never got

a twitter app on my relatively new ipone boom.

[uncle ray]

30. Note he didn't say smart phone.

It will be the stupid phone.

[highplainsdem]

31. After taking one call on the Musk phone:

Link to tweet

[highplainsdem]

32. Elon Musk releases first images of the new Tesla phone:

Link to tweet

[sarcasmo]

33. E-Loon's phones will catch fire like his cars.

[highplainsdem]

34. Yep. I've been seeing tweets about that. The people still on Twitter

who aren't mindless Musk fanbois are having a lot of fun with this.

[sarcasmo]

53. Watching Tesla stock drop is a fun hobby.

[edhopper]

35. It's not that hard to make a phone

There a many companies that do it.
The tough part will be a new OS. Good luck getting the software engineers for that Elon.
I hear there are a few out of work from Twitter.

[tenderfoot]

40. He'll be able to do all the coding himself in four hours tops

[LiberalFighter]

36. With what? Stone?

[LiberalFighter]

37. I hope the worst happens to him.

[Emrys]

38. "Well, I have three businesses here I don't know how to run and am rapidly losing interest in,

and another that's amounted to a flamethrower that's not a flamethrower and a hole in the ground. What shall I do? I know! I'll start another business!"

[tenderfoot]

39. Oh, I'm sure he'll do all the work himself

[Takket]

41. are apple and google even talking about that? Or is this just a rethug stirring shit for no reason?

[highplainsdem]

45. One of the top Twitter execs who's out now has said Musk has a lot to fear from those app

stores, because of what he's doing with Twitter.

And Apple deleted all the tweets from its main Twitter account last week.

And the Apple exec who heads their app store deleted his Twitter account completely.

Which weren't seen as good signs for Apple's app store continuing to offer Twitter.

[niyad]

44. A- he did not build the rocket ship. B- is there a phone company for sale?

[Initech]

49. Yeah that will be a surefire way to get hacked, doxxed, and phished.

I'll stick with Android, thanks!

[Joinfortmill]

50. I wouldn't buy anything from this dude. Twitter is doomed.

[keep_left]

51. Actually, he could do that; the only problem is that the Chinese have already beat him to it...

...among many others. Remember the (right-wing) "Freedom Phone"? It is/was a generic Alibaba phone with an Android OS. Most of those generic Chinese phones also allow sideloading so that you control what apps can be added.

Elon will find there's not a lot of money to be made. I doubt the low margins will hold his interest for long.

[LudwigPastorius]

52. Please do.

It will be another business venture which you know jack shit-all about.

I welcome the debut of the ReichPhone and the substantial drain on your wealth it will engender.

[tinrobot]

54. Microsoft tried doing exactly that about a decade ago.

They shuttered the division in 2017.

Now the only phone they make runs Android.

[In It to Win It]

57. NGL, I think he should

[madinmaryland]

59. Eloon's sockpuppet, catturd, will be making the phones.

She is busy now, so don’t go bothering her.

[speak easy]

61. He's Really Losing It.

[DemocraticPatriot]

62. "The number you have dialed, would like to see you

dead in a heaping pile of MAGAt puss, motherfucker"

"Click"

[Genki Hikari]

63. This idiot will be lucky to buy a latte at Starbucks

Within a few months, never mind getting a phone up and running that will dethrone an iPhone or Samsung (or whoever the big Android phone maker is).

Besides, you just know any phone this nitwit came up with would be loaded with ads you have to cycle through to make/answer a call, not to mention so much enemy nation spyware that snails would laugh at how slow it was. Heck, his phone might be such an epic fail that landlines would make a comeback.

[lame54]

65. Get in on the ground floor of 2 cans and a string

[Kennah]

67. Oligarchs are jealous of one another and seek to gain what the others have

Trump has more failures, so ...