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Elon may have trouble with Apple and his lack of moderation stance. Same with Google.
With no moderation the EU could ban Twitter also.
Elon Musk says he will create 'alternative' smartphone if Twitter is kicked out of the Apple App Store
Kali Hays Nov 26, 2022, 1:04 AM
Elon Musk looking at his phone.
Musk. AP
Elon Musk is willing to build his own smartphone if Twitter gets kicked out of Apple's App Store.
Apple demands "safety" for users as a condition of apps being on its powerful platform.
With Musk's changes to Twitter's content moderation, it could land outside Apple's rules.
Elon Musk has a simple plan if Apple decides to boot Twitter from the App Store. The billionaire will create his own smartphone.
Musk wrote in a Friday tweet he would "make an alternative phone" to compete with Apple's iPhone if the tech giant ends up blocking Twitter from its powerful App Store.
Since taking over Twitter at the end of October, Musk has made many changes to the platform, including extensive layoffs and firings of personnel, which have led to resignations executives in charge of data privacy and content moderation. Before he offered to buy Twitter for $44 billion, Musk criticized Twitter for undermining democracy by failing to uphold "free speech principles" and not long before called himself a "free speech absolutist."
Musk's stance on content moderation is essentially to allow speech that does not violate law. In addition, he is reportedly planning to try and make money for Twitter off of adult content or pornography, similar to the site Ony Fans. Under previous leadership like Jack Dorsey, content moderation was more deliberate and focused on "safety" for users, banning pornography, hate speech and violence. Musk has quickly moved to reinstate a number of users banned for such content, like former president Donald Trump.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-make-his-own-phone-apple-app-store-2022-11
Iggo
(47,552 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,201 posts).
https://puri.sm/
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edhopper
(33,579 posts)to keep Twitter going.
Good luck creating a new phone OS, among the most complicated programs around.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)You know how great ruskie engineering is.
Irish_Dem
(47,075 posts)Musk might arrange something with China?
edhopper
(33,579 posts)why not sell out completely to them.
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0a5b51a8354827bb13a783bd59bc6955
Irish_Dem
(47,075 posts)edhopper
(33,579 posts)more Putiny.
Irish_Dem
(47,075 posts)If you are friends with one of them, you are friends with the other.
RockRaven
(14,967 posts)sold at a huge mark up to suckers.
Demanchor
(127 posts)Suggesting his purchase of Twitter is for AI development. If he does make a smartphone it would be a good combination with Twitter to help develop his AI dream.
Irish_Dem
(47,075 posts)I read the article you mention. The AI theory is one I have heard before.
Just the information alone on Twitter is worth something to Russia, China, Saudi.
But now the talk of Musk making his own phone.
Yep, interesting dots beginning to connect?
PSPS
(13,598 posts)Musk's purchase of twitter was just a tantrum. He didn't like what people said about him, so buying twitter was nothing more than his "revenge." It's the same as trump wreaking revenge for how he was humiliated so many years ago in Queens by becoming president and doing everything he could to destroy the country.
When evaluating musk's motives, you can reliably use trump as the template.
dembotoz
(16,805 posts)watch out for the terminator teslas
an update of the movie Christine
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)The first feature a person looks for is whether they can use twitter on their phone.
PSPS
(13,598 posts)yonder
(9,666 posts)maxrandb
(15,330 posts)[link:http://
|Disaffected
(4,554 posts)The "Pi phone" has a lot of wizbang features such as Starlink communication and support for "Neuralink".
Of course the possibility that most (all?) of it is and will remain vaporware must not be discounted.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/technology/2022/03/17/what-we-know-so-far-about-teslas-rumoured-model-pi-smartphone/
NickB79
(19,243 posts)He would have to build an entire app ecosystem on par with Apple's or Google's stores.
No one buys a phone for ONE app. Not even Twitter.
Disaffected
(4,554 posts)why would a Tesla phone necessarily be unable to run Android (Google) apps?
live love laugh
(13,109 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,806 posts)Will his smart phone be as smart as buying Twitter?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)multigraincracker
(32,682 posts)from the add. "we take flame resistance seriously".
Initech
(100,076 posts)Cash 4 Gold? Protein supplements? Trump challenge coins? Whatever company makes the end times buckets of goo they sell on the Jim Bakker show? My Pillow promo codes? That seems to be all that the MAGAs have left.