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!
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.
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.