Elonphone incoming. “Pay 30%” refers to App Store fee
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If Elon actually goes forward with his own phone service, as soon as he does Apple and Android will stop boycotting. The can read the tea leaves I am sure. Hit 'em right where it hurts, in the profits!
And they don't have their own rockets to build the phone that Elon can
As much as I want to believe that, I doubt it. Amazon, BlackBerry, and Microsoft all went up against Apple in the smartphone arena and got smoked. It’s not as easy as it sounds. Blackberry had a massive, 10yr head start, not to mention a huge corporate user base, and Apple still managed to nearly make them extinct within 5yrs because the product was just that much better. The only reason Android even competes is because the majority of the phones are so cheap.
Breaking people away from the Apple ecosystem would be really, really hard. He would have to not only build a better and smoother OS, but a phone that isn’t put together like shit (like a Tesla), and all of the supporting hardware that people have gotten used to using in the Apple ecosystem, with a cloud to sync it all. Most people aren’t going to switch phones when it doesn’t work with their laptop, Watch, earbuds, streaming device, tablet, etc
Much like the plan here was obviously taking over Twitter rather than standing up a serious market share competitor by 2024, there has to be another plan for Apple’s App Store monopoly. Competing with them straight up is a losing battle. Same with how CNN has new leadership and is being gutted from the inside out. That’s not a coincidence.
Keep in mind what is happening at FOXCON right now. Apple has no power if they have no production.
False. Samsung flagships are priced appropriately against iPhone and they are dominating the market.
There are many aspects to why Android does better, from better performance options, to freedom within the operating system, to interface being more user friendly overall, to variable component options that iPhone simply doesn't do, which gives a much better experience and more competition within the space. But price is far from the only factor.
The fact that you can't even easily install apps that are removed from the Apple store is inherently a buying point for a lot of people, as Apple tends to delist a lot of things if they feel like it.
Now that said, Elon wouldn't be competing with just Apple. Elon would be competing against two monoliths in the space.
Others tried, others failed as you said. That said, in regards to Microsoft, they haven't exactly demonstrated having good designers, developers or even project managers as they struggle to get things through the door to begin with.
In regards to Amazon: They always half ass everything they do. Games, movies, shows (Upload was funny though) to hardware. The Kindle is just about the only good thing they've done outside of shipping.
Except that Blackberry failed because they ignored the iphone for years. It took them three years to release the horrible Storm handset (their "iphone killer"). The Storm 2 was duct tape and hope and while it had better hardware, the UI mess was still there. Apple then released the 4 with Enterpisey features and RIM died.
Microsoft failed because they had one good generation of hardware and then they nose-dived the hardware division they bought straight into the ground. Their "best" phone was two generations behind the latest SOCs on release. And they never got real feature updates.
Android was successful because they threw the garden gates open wide. Cheap phone? Whatever. Ultra bling bling phone? Whatever. Just buy these java runtimes that will install on all 68 phones you have to buy this year because they are $5 burners from walmart.
He already has the phone. Or better yet, the white hats already have the phone. Wouldn’t that be rich. No sauce, just intuition. I don’t think he would say that without having developed it already.