Elon Musk said he’d make his own phone in a case where Apple and Google would ban Twitter – and that’s an exciting prospect.
Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover continues to be a mess, and the future isn’t clear for one of the most influential social networks in the world. Musk’s Twitter troubles are hardly over, and the newest addition to a growing list of pain points is the prospect of Apple and Google banning Twitter from the iPhone and Android app stores. It turns out that’s actually an exciting possibility, and the reason has nothing to do with censorship or content moderation. Instead, a Twitter ban from Apple or Google might lead to Elon Musk creating his own smartphone, which we’ll call the Twitter phone.
Musk is struggling to turn Twitter into a different kind of experience, one that’s actually profitable. And he’s doing it while cutting the workforce significantly and trying to implement a new hardcore work mentality that employees don’t appreciate.
Unsurprisingly, the fast-paced changes that Musk has implemented so far have turned out to be massive failures that Twitter needed to fix immediately.