Elon Musk to Build “Alternative Phone” If Apple and Google Boot Twitter

Yes. Space Karen’s MO seems to be to just throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks.

It's a touch of "I'm rich so I can do whatever I want" with a pinch of "Apple you better be careful what you do, or imma ruin your whole career".

But in effect it's just Elon being desperate with no way out. No alternative phone will save Twitter if it gets banned from the 2 major mobile platforms.

Elon likes to talk about "First principles", which means AFAICT means don't look at anything anyone else has done in the field and go with your gut then post hoc rationalize why that was the superior choice. It works great if your underlings are good at figuring out how to gently correct your ideas with prior knowledge and make you think it was all you.

It will be an amazingly well engineered phone based on the woefully inferior Android, which is being held back by wokeness. It will soon be the most secure and private phone ever created, pending one more year and regulatory approval (the Feds are preventing Elon from using some of the super encryption he's thought of). And you can get great memes as wallpaper and fart ring tone options right out of the box. Building the world's best phone is naturally a simple task for someone who landed rockets on a boat.