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Musk will create 'alternative' smartphone if Twitter kicked out of the App Store

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7 pointsCharlesW20 comments

Musk has never created anything, so this also probably means "acquires a mobile phone company and squeezes a product from the blood of its employees".

Ok, well, that's some sort of creation, but probably not the kind people think about the word generally.

Then let’s hope Twitter is kicked out. Musk starting some real competition would the best thing for the industry. This is the correct way to deal with the duopoly. Maybe Epic can go in on it with him.

Thank you for saying this, an opinion you're not allowed to have on HN.

I hope he doesn't use Android as a base.

While he's at it he can start a phone carrier as well. That's competition we could really all benefit from.

This will be revolutionary because Hispanic moms will finally have a true child seeking missile to replace la chancla

Just like the Facebook phone.

It would be a real Musk-Zuck face-off. Suppose Musk got it off the ground? How sick would that feel to Z?

and to create his phone he gets the money from...........

Twitter profits.

Selling some Tesla stock and raising investment. He didn’t say it would be a Twitter phone. He said he would make it, which presumably means starting a new company.

I think folks don't get that this was said tongue-and-cheek. Journalists are just idiots these days.

“Journalists”

no, they're sharks, cold, unfeeling and calculating. This outrageous statement gets people agitated and reading news. It doesn't matter that he has a long track record of lying, nor that such an fact, even if true, is inconsequential for everyone, because people are idiots and they're attracted to the wrong things.

I’m curious your evidence for this. I don’t see it.

Go read Elon’s Twitter feed. This is classic Elon.

I find he treads in the "is he joking or isn't he?" space in the same way Trump always does. Everything is partly a troll, which allows many interpretations of his words. It's overall disingenuous. But it also allows folks who love him to read whatever they want into what he says; whatever puts him in the best light.

FWIW I don't think it's intentional on his part (or Trump), it's just the high status, narcissistic shitposter's way. The world loves it, except for those who hate it, but the haters just prove that the shitposter has always been right.

The point is that journalists formed this whole story from a tweet. Elon probably spent less than 15 seconds thinking about it before he threw that tweet out. The journalists that treat this like a real story are insanely gullible.

Well your first point was that he’s joking but now the point is that he didn’t think it through and the journalists are “gullible”

I agree articles like this based on a tweet are bad, but your reasoning here keeps shifting. This is pretty common imo for folks who are pro Elon. I’m curious if you think there’s any context where what he says or tweets should be taken literally?

My reason is the same from the beginning. It was a casual, tongue-n-cheek tweet. It was mildly funny and consistent w Elon.

They always wanted to build their "blackberry" like ecosystem, now it's possible with their fleet of low altitude satellites with starlink

By "they" i mean the CIA, they always hated RIM for building their own secure network

Damn, i loved BlackBerry phones so much.. Bold 9700 was my all time favorite, i'm curious to see how this story will develop

Some interesting thoughts: https://chycho.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-surveillance-state-k...

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