NEWS ~ Elon Musk could launch an alternative smartphone
After electric cars, rockets for Mars, or the takeover of Twitter and its upheaval, Elon Musk could well create his alternative smartphone. An intention revealed in a tweet. Would the new Twitter boss do it better than his predecessors who tried?
After getting tangled up in the purchase of Twitter for the astronomical sum of $44 billion, not a week goes by without Elon Musk turning the social network upside down with tweets and pseudo polls. There was the affair of the blue certification buttons accessible to all for a subscription fee of 8 dollars/month. A service quickly suspended given the number of account hijackings in just a few days.
Elon Musk then moved on to restore the account of former U.S. President Donald Trump. This one had been banned the day after the invasion of the Capitol in the United States. The deposed president was partly responsible for the messages inciting violence that he posted on social networks. Finally, after a poll via Twitter, that is to say, nothing scientific, the boss of Tesla considered once again that the "people" want the return of suspended accounts. An amnesty that should quickly lead to an increase in harassment, hate speech and misinformation.
Yesterday, in a response to a tweet, Elon Musk hinted that he would be tempted to launch his own alternative smartphones and even that he may have no other choice in the future. Mobiles with a new OS that competes with the iPhone and Android. This is at least what emerges from an exchange with a twittos.
Creating a smartphone, a child's play when making rockets?
The user, an American youtuber considered that, for someone who builds rockets that can go to Mars, designing a small smartphone should be easy to get out of the hegemony of Android and Apple. Musk responded, "I sure hope it doesn't come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone." A tweet that generated many responses supporting this idea.
Creating an alternative smartphone, other internet tenors have tried it without success. This was the case for Amazon with its Fire Phone, a homegrown smartphone launched in 2014 with its operating system called Fire OS. It had a raised display capability and its app store was Amazon's. The mobile was discontinued after a year on the market. Facebook, the direct competitor of Twitter also intended to launch its own smartphone more than ten years ago. This Facebook phone was to run its OS around the firm's applications. The project was abandoned. So launching an alternative smartphone remains a complicated affair. Knowing how to make rockets does not guarantee anything.
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