There Is No Phone

OpenAI is not building a phone. Amazon is not building a phone. And now SpaceX is not building a phone. Are you sensing a trend?

The trend is that basically the entire tech industry is rumored to once again be building their own smartphones. But they're all denying it. But all of the denials sound misdirecting at best and misleading at worst. Because of course they should be building such a device. As should Meta (again). And Microsoft (again). And everyone else who aims to control their own destiny. Because right now, Apple, and to a lesser extent, Google, does. And that's going to continue, perhaps well into the Age of AI.1

So the argument is really one of semantics. OpenAI isn't building a phone, they're building... something else. Amazon isn't building a phone, they're building... something else. SpaceX isn't building a phone...

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