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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
Tengrain

@georgetakei

Imagine having the entire hate-web in your pocket?

Peach

@georgetakei can't see a lot of people ditching their iPhones and Androids just for a Twitter phone... but then, I'm not a genius billionaire.

Ed Foss

@georgetakei I would love to see a BirdSite phone as long as it was cheap.
I could get one and give the phone number to people I don't want to talk to and since it'd be a BirdSite phone it would never work right.

Imagine meeting that neighbor nobody wants to talk to at the grocery store. Pull the phone out of your pocket and say "oops sorry got to go - BirdSite call."

Nice idea but unfortunately it would probably become a nasty right wing squawk box of intolerance.

@georgetakei I would love to see a BirdSite phone as long as it was cheap.
I could get one and give the phone number to people I don't want to talk to and since it'd be a BirdSite phone it would never work right.

Imagine meeting that neighbor nobody wants to talk to at the grocery store. Pull the phone out of your pocket and say "oops sorry got to go - BirdSite call."

peachfront

@georgetakei

It won't be going as well as I, for one, had hoped, until the phone he invents catches on fire like a Tesla car battery (oops, maybe I should have said like a Samsung Galaxy 7?)

--Proud owner of a Galaxy 8

DraDeGuardia

@georgetakei 🤣🤣🤣🤣 he is a spoiled toddler !

Tom

@georgetakei That Elon he think big and delusional

PPN

@georgetakei Musk and another prospect of a product line with a high potential for catching fire. What could go wrong? 😂

k cavaliere

@georgetakei Well, he is a genius. His mum says so.

random thoughts

@georgetakei Good luck to him. Richer and more powerful men failed at this.

Tim Greyhavens

@georgetakei Has anyone ever seen Musk and Trump in the same room? I'm starting to think they're the same person.

Nachtwind

@georgetakei

This Caligula of social media is emberassing himself.

I wonder how long it takes for him to hit mental breakdown...

Barry Schwartz 🫖

@georgetakei I keep recommending: go to the #Apple #AppStore and go to the #Google #PlayStore and #REPORT the #Twitter app.

At the Play store there is a link for an "inappropriate" app. Click it and fill in the checkbox for "hateful or abusive content".

Let's get the app removed!

(And Numskoel doesn't realize you can read his dying bird with your phone's browser? He thinks he has to make a special phone?????)

ML2

@chemoelectric @georgetakei IIANM a surprisingly large number of people don't realize that they can see Twitter via a normal browser. My mother used to be one of them.
OTOH, Musk not understanding this fact is decidedly more embarrassing since he is supposedly a tech literate person. (We all know he *isn't*, of course, but that's the persona he's been projecting to his fans and the public and large)

Serqetry

@georgetakei oh god I hope this happens, it would be the funniest thing ever.

Tony Bark :pawified:

@georgetakei If he uses Android, he loses. If he goes with a custom OS, he still loses. :blobcatrainbow:

Scott Jordan

@georgetakei Well, it would make for much smaller fires than his other product line

Gemma 👽

@georgetakei he could call it ”Phony”. It’s like a pet name for phone. A little phony-phone. 😌

HSTG

@georgetakei Nobody came to the fedi so they could listen to people like you talk about twitter and such all day and night.

Jeepman

@georgetakei
Sweet something else that’ll blow up in your pants.
Now who’s buying these phones?
Just another avenue towards bankruptcy the asylum he is surely headed towards.

Clare 🐻

@georgetakei
Well, planet earth doesn't seem to suit him in its entirety soooo 😏

Off to Mars to solve that problem, whip up a new smartphone to bypass 'censorship' - easy peasy 😂😂

mudsharkbytes

@georgetakei Elon is nothing more than another Richie Rich brat.

Draken BlackKnight

@georgetakei How did that work out for the con artist who got a bunch of fascist idiots to hawk his "freedom" phone?

Mandy May

@georgetakei there's trouble at the Foxconn factory in China today, iPhone is making Xi Jinping look bad. maybe Space Karen can work a deal through that crack? he's not at all against slavery, could be a great match.

Nathan

@georgetakei
It's so easy to make a combination cellphone and entertainment device these days.. I don't know why more poeple don't do it. 😄
[/sarcasm]

Elon Musk
@nathan

*furiously takes notes*

I would like to buy this idea.
Jenny White

@georgetakei man oh man sounds like Musk is going through a proper douchification process.

Youngkuyk🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🎞📷

@georgetakei
Not only would he have to make a new phone. He'd have to make a new OS and marketplace for that platform. It would be a major undertaking. However I can see half of America using it soo... could go both ways if he had the money.

sxpert
@younkuyk @georgetakei but they wouldn’t be able to board a plane with it
Boris Grishenko

@georgetakei Musk thinks he’s a Musketeer of free speech but he’s really just a generic rich guy Musktake

mattlqx

@georgetakei Because there's not a long rich history of companies that failed to make a phone successful. Facebook being a prime example. I welcome his next effort to spend $44b on nothing.

Tim Bonney

@georgetakei delusions of grandeur, thy name is Musk.

JEB™
@georgetakei 🤦🏻

As far as I’m aware there always room for two leading phone brands and the scraps get picked up by smaller phones. Even back in the old days of smartphones - Palm & BlackBerry, BlackBerry & Windows Mobile, BlackBerry & iPhone, and now iPhone and Android. It’d have to be pretty revolutionary to break into the market now.

I have my doubts an Elon phone would do that.
@georgetakei 🤦🏻

As far as I’m aware there always room for two leading phone brands and the scraps get picked up by smaller phones. Even back in the old days of smartphones - Palm & BlackBerry, BlackBerry & Windows Mobile, BlackBerry & iPhone, and now iPhone and Android. It’d have to be pretty revolutionary to break into the market now.
Mark Long

@georgetakei Building a phone not because it makes good business sense but because he was ego was bruised by Apple and Google.

Patty

@georgetakei Oh please. If you walk and talk on it, you'll crash into a wall.

The Duke In Purple~

@georgetakei I can't wait for him to blow another batch of billions of dollars on an instant fail device. :D

𝓢𝓬𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂𝔀𝓪𝓰 🕹️🎮🛸👽

@georgetakei if it’s anything like his cars the price will be extortionate and there’s a good chance it wil explode in your pocket. No thanks space con man. 👋

wolfger

@georgetakei I'd say it's going marvelously well! I look forward to Musk making a new phone with all the success of Trump making a new Twitter. 🤣

Geoff Evans :toad:

@georgetakei i miss having a library of gifs to pull from so I can share a hearty laugh of agreement!

Big Head Tales

@georgetakei I suspect it’s going just as Musk and his foreign investors planned.

SC Wonderland

@georgetakei Will he also name his phone for a fruit? Muskmelon, perhaps?

dbquick

@georgetakei Apparently the Mastodon platform has no button for "Laughing out loud." 😂

Joseph In THEE OC

@georgetakei a phone that will spontaneously combust like a Tesla.

Stephan Löttgen ♻️

@georgetakei The Fuck in this idea is the possibility to invent a Starlink Smartphone without local mobile-servives. The next fuck in this is the madness of this freak, it's not far away from a combination of Woz and Steve in one asshole... 🙈🙈🙈 Don't believe the hype...

John Breen

@georgetakei And the people who will buy this phone are basically "TruthSocial" subscribers - so the whole exercise accomplishes what, other than chaos that is worth billions to someone at this time ?
Not to mention, I don't install ANY SM apps on my devices. Be on a website or be gone, things tied to a proprietary device are dead to me.

rhold

@georgetakei afaik there have been rumors about a Tesla phone for some time now. It is supposed to feature starling. But there are no credible sources so war don't know.

So all of this might just be some marketing buzz

Miranda Allen

@georgetakei We're witnessing how blinding ego & drive for the adoration of the hate and vile is sending a billionaire to his ruin. He will through all the money he has access to at this obsession and end up with nothing.

DJOakland

@georgetakei remember the “Freedom Phone”? Neither do most people, it launched to much acclaim as an iPhone alternative for conservative. cnet.com/tech/mobile/freedom-p

Bonnfire (Seven)

@georgetakei will he be using it to phone the mother ship to come pick him up, please? He’s overstayed his welcome and I’m afraid he’s gonna pee on the carpet.(Also, thanks for pinning how to get here!)

Brett Glass WY7BG

@georgetakei I suggested that Elon's phone be called The Boring Phone. Within an hour, the tweet was shadowbanned.

Legal_Caffeine

@georgetakei Musk’s mouth is writing checks that his brain can’t cash.

B.Railgun

@georgetakei I won’t lie, I did report Twitter to App Store when I left siting the lack of content moderation. Linking to some of the more… colourful tweets I had been subjected to that week.

Ro Gutierrez Abreu 🤲✨️

@georgetakei 😂 He really is that clueless, spoiled, alien child that kidnapped your whole crew on TOS.

Chris Maler

@georgetakei
The Twitter Phone, what could go wrong?

anduril

@georgetakei i bet he is gonna have a full mental meltdown sooner or later (the one with those jackets closing in the back)

DELETED

@georgetakei having his own phone would be a great way to clock psychos in real life.

Jim Dixon :unverified:

@georgetakei Too late. The Princess Phone has come and gone.

VolcanicAshSoap

@georgetakei Little does he know how hard it is to market an entirely new ecosystem.

Strangely

@georgetakei
LOL. Look forward to the TesWitter Anti-woke phone

Peter Pettigrew

@georgetakei By the time the phone comes out,the bird has the flu,Tesla will instantaneously combust and Space X will home in on Twitter HD

atomicpx

@georgetakei Keeping in mind the success he’s having with Twitter, I am not sure what makes him think he can compete with the likes of Apple and Google. Especially since he’s been so well received by the dev community.

yakkoj 🦊

@georgetakei as someone who's worked at a mobile carrier for 27 years, I cordially invite him to go ahead. If he's really going to create a NEW phone, we're not going to hear from him for a number of years.

Richard Welty

@georgetakei Apple & Google: we don't need to participate in your Terms of Service fiasco

Gary Hyslop

@georgetakei And a whole new OS to go with it. Good luck with that.

𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒑𝒆𝒓

Don't they already have the high security risk "Freedom Phone" for the conservative that wants China reading all their data?

@georgetakei

Matisyahu 🏳️‍🌈✡️🌹🚆🚂🥑🇺🇦

@georgetakei IMHO in the right wing mindset they think they're 'triggering the libs' so therefore according to their own twisted logic they're 'winning' however when it all crashes and burns they will then sit around blaming everyone but themselves for why their 'triggering the libs' business model failed in the real world. Elon is what one would describe as 'terminally online' - believing that people outside his small army of sycophants have an interest in his theatrics.

Tapudov

@georgetakei
Angry crowd, chanting:
FREE-DOM-PHONE
FREE-DOM-PHONE

Malintent

@georgetakei Wonder if it will only cost $8 and come with it's own custom colored checkmark 😅

Matthew Wilson

@georgetakei ... and THEN I'll build my own phone network, HA! ... my roads will be much better, there won't be so many rules to follow ... I've got my own island now, nobody can stop me... welcome to Mars!

Daniel Tuttle 🌵🤘

@georgetakei I wonder if he's actually dumb enough to go from world's richest man to broke. I mean, is that even a thing in capitalism?

Myles Ryden

@georgetakei An iTwone? MuskDroid? TwitSung? Teslung?

:pride: Alex :bo8:

@georgetakei Let's hope they wise up and see what this platform has become. A heaping pile of doo doo with a site of entrails. If i were them i would of kicked them off the minute elon took over but hey, that's just me. My fault for giving a billionaire idiot the benefit of the doubt, turns out everything we thought he would be was true huh?

Kote Isaev

@georgetakei Musk just want to keep monetize his personal cult, these over 100 million people who still follow him on Twitter? Or he want monetize that MAGA crowd? Sounds not too inspiring and not too sustainable, even from pure capitalistic point of view.

MadGoat :batman:

@georgetakei making a web app would be a lot cheaper and a much more reasonable use of his time… but he’s a whacko, so there’s that.

SchrodingersCat

@georgetakei Musk really does think he is smarter than the engineers. Fools and their money are soon parted.

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