Now Musk is saying if Apple and Google block Twitter on their app stores, presumably for failure to moderate hate speech and for safety, he will just create a new phone.
So it’s going well, right?
Now Musk is saying if Apple and Google block Twitter on their app stores, presumably for failure to moderate hate speech and for safety, he will just create a new phone. So it’s going well, right? @AlexEdwards You don't remember the Sony LiPo years, do you? 💥 I had a laptop inflate aggressively going through airport security. The TSA agent wanted me to take it on the plane. @georgetakei I guess he's helpfully providing the world with entertainment... @georgetakei There's already a freeze peach phone anyway https://anarc.at/blog/2019-05-13-free-speech/ @georgetakei All that has to be said about this kind of people, fits into three words: #TaxTheRich @georgetakei I do not think he has any idea how complicated modern phones are. He didn't design the tesla or spacex ships. Subtle projects cannot be done with a heavy hand. @hoco He didn't understand how complicated Twitter was either. Didn't stop him from jumping in with both feet and burning everything to the ground.
@RIDDLES @georgetakei I legit use an XLink Bluetooth to connect two rotary phones to my iPhone so I can have better conversations. @staringatclouds @georgetakei He means his own phone, OS and App Store, so that and Google can’t ban the Twitter app. @ZeKik @staringatclouds @georgetakei why? Surely, for android anyway, you could just sideload the app. @kasilas @staringatclouds @georgetakei Possibly, but probably fewer than 1% of Android owners know how, or are willing to do so. If Twitter is banned from the app stores, it is toast. ☠️ 🪦 Due to Trump's embargo, Chinese phones are banned from the app store and using Google apps, so yes they can. Musk can simply import Chinese phones and rebrand them. Then put the Twitter app in their downloads store. That will also prevent phone buyers from using any competing services. Musk dijo que si Apple y Google bloquea la aplicación de twitter, va a crear un nuevo teléfono 😂 @georgetakei It's a shame amazon probably have "Fire" tied up as a trademark, the Musk "Fire starter" phone could be quite something @georgetakei His next venture will to be writing a book named "1000 ways to lose everything"! @georgetakei anyone who can't make a phone on a whim just isn't hardcore enough @byn @joshourisman @georgetakei Thanks to the Wizard of Odd: @georgetakei Oh it seems to be going in a spectacular manner, George. Musk and Twitter appear to be imploding exactly as predicted. @georgetakei It's the kind of phone where you can only call to praise him. Any hint of criticism and it hangs up automatically. @georgetakei And then when no phone company will provide service to his phones, he will provide phone service through Starlink to his own phones.... and then he will have his own little network of fans who hate everyone but him. Maybe they can all just go with him to Mars and give us some peace for once... #elon #Twitter @georgetakei please God let this happen, this man is going to ruin himself doubling down on everything @georgetakei @Reverend_Blair @georgetakei The recent mid engine Corvette is a pretty good supercar. @komputernik @georgetakei Yeah, heard that. Not sure what I'd do with a supercar though. I mean, best truck I've ever owned has a top speed of 55 MPH. Nicest car I ever owned was a shitty little Triumph Spitfire. Coolest-looking car I ever owned was a Mach 1...but that's really just a sexy LTD. Like my Kia, except my wife keeps leaving the back seats up. @georgetakei lmao. and, just like Tesla, it'll involve endless beta software and dubious engineering and ethics. @georgetakei bond fire of the vanities. @georgetakei brilliant idea! Who among us wouldn't buy a whole new phone with a new phone plan just to get screamed at by Russian troll farms? @georgetakei Lol apparently not. I did see it but didn't know the context. Good to know @georgetakei he’d have to buy a controlling stake in a phone manufacturer since he doesn’t build anything @georgetakei I rarely giggle, but this made me 😀 let's wait for the new world created by Mr. Elon @georgetakei Sounds like a great idea for him. Maybe it will knock another $50B from his pocket. What an egomaniacal Tool he is. Yuck. @georgetakei "a new phone" AHAHAHAHAAHAAAHA... HAHAAA... Oh god he's fucking KIDDING right? He's gotta be. He can't even run Twitter properly. Shit, I'm surprised he can even wipe his ass on his own! Teslas keep crashing and killing pedestrians and exploding, all the advertisers have left Twitter and he can't even decide on who he wants to fire and who he wants to keep. Y'know what - go on then, build your special phone, Elon. We'll need something to roast the marshmallows over. @georgetakei @georgetakei As others have said, it'll be either an off brand Chinese clunker phone with a custom Android OS or just something that a few thousand slobbering Elon nerds will buy and then it'll die. @georgetakei I wonder if he’ll use the Freedom Phone aka the one preferred by North Korea because you can root those phones easily. @georgetakei it's going well in the sense that Musk's inability to contribute meaningfully to a company's operation is now painfully public. This isn't new knowledge, but at least it's harder to ignore now! @georgetakei A Tesla Phone with funny angles made out of tin. 😂 I prefer Star Treks ideas they worked 👍 Twitter worked because of society being there once the corporates take over it’s biased for their own ends. Ha har with you George it’s not going well. @georgetakei "Hey Siri, remind me about the crazy successulf an dhugely popular 'Freedom Phone', would you?" @georgetakei Interpretation. Waaaa Waaaa waaaaa... And I'll buy into someone else's phone company because I don't actually create things, I buy into them... Waaaaa waaaaa @georgetakei Everything is meaningless to him...and he takes no responsibility for anything he does. @georgetakei first of all, the hubris of billionaires, eh. Secondly, willing to bet that the Super Elon Phone won't be allowed on aircraft. @georgetakei and the phone would probably sell even worse than (now discontinued) Windows Phone. @georgetakei He wants to control the entire ecosystem, so I don't put it past him to try, but he has alienated half of his customer base. That's next level business sense, amiright? @georgetakei I’m sure investors will jump at the chance to invest after $44 billion goes down the tubes. @georgetakei @georgetakei Fine with me. Have him create the MagaPhone 1.0. Make it red and shiny so we can see from far away who the bigots are. @georgetakei He's more than a bit clueless, he is. He needs to develop and manufacture the phone, develop the OS and all the phone and messaging apps, develop a twitter app. I do not foresee this going well, and it certainly won't go quickly. @morima @georgetakei the twitter app is the most credible patt of this, as for the rest, who would buy this ? Trumpers ?
@georgetakei On the one hand, there's a grim amusement in watching him dig himself into an ever deeper hole. On the other hand, it's tragic. That much money could have been used to do something that would benefit humanity greatly. @georgetakei Sure. Elmo can be the CEO (and chief code reviewer) for four companies. Why not. 🙄🙄 @georgetakei Awesome strategy: threaten ginormous corporations he needs to survive years before he can make his fail phone fail. |
@georgetakei I've always wanted a phone that could double as an IED, so yeah.