Twitter has become in recent months more information in itself than a place to talk about it. The acquisition of Elon Musk is a revulsion in the business, although we still don’t know if that’s for better or for worse. The chaos of verified accounts, the latest episode of which was released yesterday, adds to the amnesty that the tycoon announced for all canceled accounts on the social network.
[Así sería el móvil de Tesla inspirado en el Cybertruck]
This will mean that thousands of people, expelled for multiple reasons such as racism, incitement to hatred or scams, will return to the Twitter community.
That in itself is somewhat alarming, but it could also prompt Google and Apple to consider removing the app from stores on their mobile operating systems.
What if Tesla had a mobile phone and its own ecosystem?
This possibility is what mentioned podcaster Liz Wheeler on her Twitter profilein which he stated that if Apple and Google kicked Twitter out of their stores, Elon Musk would have to create a Tesla-branded smartphone.
He even speculates that the task should be simple compared to starting a company that takes rockets into space.
What is curious is that Elon Musk himself responded saying that he hopes not to have to find himself in this situation, but if he does, he will create a new smartphone.
Smartphone is not the problem
Although there has been speculation that Tesla might enter this market for over a decade, the reality is that the company is not interested, as it is a highly competitive industry, with very few profit margin and where the problem is not It is not creating the hardware, but an ecosystem around it, as BlackBerry or Nokia have already verified when they were part of Microsoft.
The idea that Elon Musk is going to create a new platform might be considered absurd, but one might also think it was absurd to buy a social network for 44 trillion dollars and carry out all the actions that the South African businessman carried out.
As always, Elon’s statements should be taken with caution, not in vain for years he has been promising full autopilot to Tesla or man to Mars.
Fire OS, Amazon’s fork on Android
The free Android
¿A fork of Android?
But even if Elon Musk decided to create a mobile brand to be able to control the inclusion of Twitter in them, he would have to create an operating system from scratch, or buy one compatible with Android, because starting an ecosystem without applications is little less than suicide, even for someone with your resources. Even Jeff Bezos failed to make the Amazon Fire Phone a success.
A variant of Android such as Amazon’s Fire OS could be an option, but even Elon said he hopes it doesn’t come to that.
The question is, will Google and Apple take action if Twitter becomes a platform that breaks its app store rules?
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