Take it for what it's worth from someone who has worked on the *ENORMOUS* teams for Windows Phone and Fire phone
looooooool good luck have fun
@Pwnallthethings don't forget LG! They didn't even design their own OS and they STILL dropped out of the market
I'm sure the TeslaPhone will do so much better than that and won't just use some Android fork like Fire Phone tried to do.
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Literally my first thought, LoL
He gonna being posting links to side load Twitter while he finds a smartphone company to buy.
He's gonna need an OS too.
And Apple, if you count the Newton as their first attempt.
I hope he tries. The schadenfreude of watching the failure destroy his wealth would be…satisfying.
@Pwnallthethings Let's see, Steve knew how to pick the right people, motivate them, let them stand up to him if they thought he was wrong. And I think Tim follows that style in his own way
Google prizes open discussions & arguments backed up with statistics.
A phone isn't just about tech, really hope Elon tries so he learns some (ok many) valuable lessons.
I still mourn the Nokia and Microsoft attempts
And firmware updates that added new free features!
AND BETTER MEMORY MANAGEMENT THAN ANDROID AT THE TIME
If anyone but Microsoft was attached, I'm convinced it would have survived. It was an albatross in terms of branding
Surface Team working miracles all day every day and he's like "Haha ok you kids have fun while the grownups sell server time"
He strikes me as similar to the Twitter board that sold to Elon: utterly disinterested in money in the future if there's short sighted money to be made now.
Elon: sup nerds
Fired Twitter Execs: thank you for buying this crate of 8000 squirrels. Some of them are rabid. Bye.
Elon was like so clearly a quick buck to them, damn the consequences.
And Nadella going all in on Azure feels like the same thing
I kept using it until after they pulled the plug entirely.
They should've launched the OS faster, spent way more on marketing, and paid major apps to jump on board
@Pwnallthethings On the massive assumption he's not completely insane, I guess he would just slap a logo on an LG or similar Android phone, and give it an Android build with Aptoide instead of Google Play.
I mean, even that's insane but it ticks the boxes of being seen to do something and growing his cult, which seems to be the goal as opposed to actually running a sensible business.
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I hear nokia might have some old tech laying around he could buy and claim as his own...
I mean they'd love playing snake all day right?
@mattblaze @Pwnallthethings was just having this discussion elsewhere and also landed on rebadged Android being the best case scenario also, which agreed, not a good scenario.
Even if he could make a new OS, and could attract engineers to work on it after all this mess. Who’s getting a phone that only runs Twitter because it’s not Android or iOS and so has no app ecosystem.
@mattblaze @Pwnallthethings There was also an "anti-woke" fintech startup called Glorifi...
You can imagine how it went- CEO drinking on the job, etc 🤣
It is of course hard to know what the point of this would be. If it is to make Twitter available even if it is not on app stores, the easy/obvious thing is to just make it available for sideloading on Android.
If it is to build a whole new phone platform and app ecosystem to spite the companies that have rejected him... well yeah, that would be hilarious to see.
And most likely he doesn't understand enough to even distinguish between these.
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