Elon Musk Teases A New Mobile Device If App Stores Ban Twitter - Vanity Fair

Elon Musk said that helium would make a smartphone if Twitter is banned from Apple and Google app stores. 

Podcaster Liz Wheeler archetypal projected the thought to Musk via Twitter: “If Apple & Google footwear Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should nutrient his ain smartphone. Half the state would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android. The antheral builds rockets to Mars, a silly small smartphone should beryllium easy, right?”

“I surely anticipation it does not travel to that, but, yes, if determination is nary different choice, I volition marque an alternate phone,” Musk replied connected Friday.

In a recent New York Times op-ed, Twitter’s erstwhile caput of spot and safety, Yoel Roth, wrote about concerns helium heard regarding Twitter’s aboriginal successful the app stores: “Twitter volition person to equilibrium its caller owner’s goals against the applicable realities of beingness connected Apple’s and Google’s internet…And arsenic I departed the company, the calls from the app reappraisal teams had already begun.”

The erstwhile Apple enforcement who inactive oversees the App Store, Phil Schiller, allegedly deleted his Twitter relationship past week, according to CNBC.

Although neither Apple nor Google person made nationalist announcements threatening the platform’s spot successful their app stores, some companies temporarily banned different platforms that allowed precise escaped escaped speech, similar Parler and Truth Social.