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George Takei

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?

301 comments
AlexEdwards

@georgetakei I've always wanted a phone that could double as an IED, so yeah.

Rev. GothAlice

@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.

Mike Conway

@georgetakei They will double as a handy fire-starter in a pinch

Tim W (union.place admin)

@georgetakei I guess he's helpfully providing the world with entertainment...

Oh 2 ten

@georgetakei Hahaha - that is a good idea - let him and make the phone work only on Mars.

KungFu3iron

@georgetakei as well as could be expected for someone at the height of hubris

Phoenix Celt

@georgetakei given tesla reputation that phone would be like a Samsung 7. No thanks.

Mathias Hasselmann

@georgetakei All that has to be said about this kind of people, fits into three words: #TaxTheRich

Howard Cohen for Harris/Walz

@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.

Jonathan Lamothe
@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.
Dave Swersky

@georgetakei We've seen this story in Kingsman... You're not fooling me Elmo! 🤣

phosphorious

@georgetakei He's not mad. Please don't report that he's mad.

Francocaruso

@georgetakei Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Lmao

sdem21

@georgetakei As if we don't have enough going on in the world.

HanFliesCasual

@RIDDLES @georgetakei I legit use an XLink Bluetooth to connect two rotary phones to my iPhone so I can have better conversations.

Cwnidog

@georgetakei : Will th enew phone catch fire in your pocket?

Soozcat

@cwnidog @georgetakei

🎶 Catch a Teslaphone and put it in your pocket
Watch your pocket catch on fiiire 🎶

graftondog

@georgetakei so he’s chronically delusional versus acutely delusional.

StaringAtClouds

@georgetakei Can the app store ban a specific model of phone ?

💐 🏖 🌺 𝕂𝕚𝕂𝕚

@staringatclouds @georgetakei He means his own phone, OS and App Store, so that  and Google can’t ban the Twitter app.

kasilas

@ZeKik @staringatclouds @georgetakei why? Surely, for android anyway, you could just sideload the app.

💐 🏖 🌺 𝕂𝕚𝕂𝕚

@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. ☠️ 🪦

Dave

@staringatclouds @georgetakei

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.

lord pthenq1

Musk dijo que si Apple y Google bloquea la aplicación de twitter, va a crear un nuevo teléfono 😂

@georgetakei

Jasmine Vidalia

@georgetakei Oh sweet, the Samsung Note 7 will be making a comeback!

Ciara

@georgetakei It's a shame amazon probably have "Fire" tied up as a trademark, the Musk "Fire starter" phone could be quite something

Ezra

@georgetakei I'm imagining exploding rockets and Samsung phones 😅

TardyCreative

@georgetakei His next venture will to be writing a book named "1000 ways to lose everything"!

Matt, from the internet

@georgetakei anyone who can't make a phone on a whim just isn't hardcore enough

Elon Musk
@theothermatt_b I'll make my own phone, with blackjack and hookers!
Jonathan Lamothe
Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach.- Elon Musk
Gòrd

@georgetakei Oh it seems to be going in a spectacular manner, George. Musk and Twitter appear to be imploding exactly as predicted.

Daniel (Not A Lawyer)

@georgetakei And his own phone company? What would that be called? Muskatel?

Sean Tilley

@georgetakei The funny thing is, other right-wing grifters have already tried this before, like the Freedom Phone.

They basically just end up with a phone made for cheap in China, despite saying "Made in the USA", and just run some knockoff version of Android that has the Google stuff stripped out.

Which isn't the worst idea in the world, but this is usually being done by people not competent enough to support their own efforts, like supporting infrastructure for alternative services or app updates. It's all very shoddy stuff, at best.

@georgetakei The funny thing is, other right-wing grifters have already tried this before, like the Freedom Phone.

They basically just end up with a phone made for cheap in China, despite saying "Made in the USA", and just run some knockoff version of Android that has the Google stuff stripped out.

Which isn't the worst idea in the world, but this is usually being done by people not competent enough to support their own efforts, like supporting infrastructure for alternative services or app updates....

JohnW

@georgetakei It's the kind of phone where you can only call to praise him. Any hint of criticism and it hangs up automatically.

Coyote Surfing 🎸🎡

@georgetakei

Twitter is irrelevant, tiny & over .....check this out

Razumasu

@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

MichelleRNCHPN Retired for now

@georgetakei
All he creates is chaos, but I'm sure he knows a guy...

Liva Kagos

@georgetakei
We can hope that his tELophONe won't run over any children.

Rod Hilton

@georgetakei please God let this happen, this man is going to ruin himself doubling down on everything

Diane 🕵

@georgetakei

This is the best visual I can imagine for what's happening to twitter.

Ken Schauer

@georgetakei and if that phone don't sell, elon's gonna buy a bunch o' consumers.

Reverend Blair

@georgetakei
I kind of feel bad for the little dude. It's like watching your friend buy a shit-box Corvette, dump his perfectly decent, intelligent wife for a set of plastic tits and an annoying laugh, and become a day-trader.

Reverend Blair

@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.

Dave Graham

@georgetakei lmao. and, just like Tesla, it'll involve endless beta software and dubious engineering and ethics.

Hermey G

@georgetakei
He becomes more repulsive by the minute

Thiru

@georgetakei Musk is the modern-day Howard Hughes.

MWT

@georgetakei Sunk Cost Fallacy in action then?

GhostOnTheHalfShell

@georgetakei bond fire of the vanities.
It really says something that #Musk 's megalomania exceeds #Trump 's . 45 has real competition

Thomas Slatin ♀️

@georgetakei I wasn't aware that Elon Musk considered doing stand-up comedy. 🤔

Donnie Two Peaches

@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?

Eric Johnson, Author

@georgetakei Lol apparently not. I did see it but didn't know the context. Good to know

MoreThanMeetsTheseGuysPOD

@georgetakei he’d have to buy a controlling stake in a phone manufacturer since he doesn’t build anything

Daradi

@georgetakei I rarely giggle, but this made me 😀 let's wait for the new world created by Mr. Elon

Susan Olson 🐾🇺🇦☮️

@georgetakei Sounds like a great idea for him. Maybe it will knock another $50B from his pocket. What an egomaniacal Tool he is. Yuck.

SkellySoft

@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.

Sandi

@georgetakei
Tesla had another recall today - maybe he's required elsewhere?

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@georgetakei

Will it burst into flames when a call comes through? 🔥

#LoneSmuk

Deanna Douglas 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

@georgetakei
Great, just what need, something that’s going to blow up in my pocket

The Bitch King of Angmar :verified_trans:

@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.

Sully1503

@georgetakei I wonder if he’ll use the Freedom Phone aka the one preferred by North Korea because you can root those phones easily.

Delta Sierra

@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!

Kelly Wr8

@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.

jenqld

@georgetakei he's more likely to buy out someone else's and pretend it's his own

Funadguy

@georgetakei I’m sure people are just lining up to work for him. Lol.

Das_Nic

@georgetakei "Hey Siri, remind me about the crazy successulf an dhugely popular 'Freedom Phone', would you?"

Mark Douglas

@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

Grandpa Dave 🇺🇲🇺🇦

@georgetakei It will cost $10,000, but include a bot for writing tweets.

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@georgetakei Everything is meaningless to him...and he takes no responsibility for anything he does.

Brownsville Girl

@georgetakei first of all, the hubris of billionaires, eh. Secondly, willing to bet that the Super Elon Phone won't be allowed on aircraft.

schnedan

@georgetakei Teslaphone, PhoneX, Twitphone, Hyperphone, ... so many possibilities

FinnleyDolfin

@georgetakei Oh, I would love to see the kind of Tesla wreck of a phone he creates.

Elfbiter

@georgetakei and the phone would probably sell even worse than (now discontinued) Windows Phone.

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@georgetakei 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

B-Sizzle :mastodon:

@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?

MJLevyMD

@georgetakei I’m sure investors will jump at the chance to invest after $44 billion goes down the tubes.

Morgane Oger

@georgetakei It's apparentlyy hard to be a belligerent misanthrope.

Ann 🙂

@georgetakei
I can picture it now: oversized, heavy, with cheap gold plating that rubs off and turns your fingers black, pre-loaded with photoshopped images of Mango Mussolini.

EboMike

@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.

Heather Evans

@georgetakei
That has to be one of the more laughable things he’s said!

Morima

@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.

sxpert
@morima @georgetakei the twitter app is the most credible patt of this, as for the rest, who would buy this ? Trumpers ?
moggie

@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.

Essaybee

@georgetakei Sure. Elmo can be the CEO (and chief code reviewer) for four companies. Why not. 🙄🙄

KanaMauna

@georgetakei Awesome strategy: threaten ginormous corporations he needs to survive years before he can make his fail phone fail.

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