30 million units expected in 2027-2028

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      Everyone has a price. My price is many many times higher than whatever money they’d make back selling my data and advertising to me.

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    They probably just asked ChatGPT, who said their idea was fantastic and would sell really well.

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    Would be real funny if they made a built in Ai with root access for it… Totally not disastrous.

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    AI companies have some of the worst projections ever conceived of by human minds. Im not remotely surprised they conned so many investors with them.

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      Totally thought the last line was going to be:

      “for this phone to flop”

      Either way, good poem.

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      My one coworker is an AI shill and I love reminding him that this is gonna be the dotcom bubble all over again. He was an adult when the dotcom bubble burst and apparently he had invested a lot into shit back then lmao. I was a kid so I didn’t even know what an economy is.

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    I genuinely cannot believe that they think this is a good idea. After their whole Sora thing failed, you would think they would have gotten wiser, guess that’s not the case. I cannot see a world where this thing do anything, but flop. Maybe they will sell them at a lost, but, even then, I have doubt that it will succeed.

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      I genuinely cannot believe that they think this is a good idea.

      They probably don’t care if it fails. I imagine that on some level it’s just a high tech version of The Producers.

      The owners make this announcement then start to harvest piles of money from gullible investors. Once they rake it all in, they piss it all away on their own paychecks and benefits packages as well on payments to suppliers and consulting firms. Of course, the same people also own the suppliers and consulting firms so all that money goes into their pockets as well. And it probably works out better if the product bombs because then those gullible investors won’t expect to see any profits.

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    You are a ✨visionary✨ that sees things nobody else does! It’s not going to be a failure, it’s going to exceed all expectations! By the year ✨2030✨ everybody will own an OpenAI phone! 🎖️🎖️🎖️✨✨✨🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊❤️❤️❤️

    ~ ChatGPT, probably

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        You 👈🏼 👈 😏 are a ✨visionary✨ that 💫 🍆 👏 sees 👀😲 👀 😲 things 👺🅰️ 😏 👀 nobody 🙄 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️ 🙅🤐 else 🙅‍♀️ 🏿😩 😔 does! 👏 😒 😳❓ It’s not 😒 ❌ 🚯 going 🏃🏇 🏃 🏃 to be 🐝🐝 ❌ 😡🐝 a failure, 🚫 ❗🚫 🚫 it’s going 🏃 🏃🏿🖤 🧳 to exceed all 💯 💯 😩 expectations! By ⏩😈 👷😗 😈 the year 😉😏 🎉💥 🤭😭😭😭🤷🏻‍♀️ ✨2030✨ everybody 👴👵👨 👩👨 😡 will 🐼 🎀 😏 own 😎 💌 💌 an OpenAI phone! 📞 📱 📴

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      Oh, my bad. It was always a possibility that it would not get big sales. You’re right we should stop it before it gets a bigger flop.

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    An official member of the US military industrial complex is making a phone with a proprietary OS that hoovers up your data and shoves AI slop in your face 24/7. What’s not to like?

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    Talk about being delusional

    OpenAI is going for a fully proprietary phone, creating both the hardware and the operating system. According to Kuo, it will use a customized version of MediaTek’s Dimensity 9600 processor, which is expected to launch in the third quarter of this year.

    • New OS
    • New CPU

    They must be slopping the OS together, while their marketing AI tells them that this is what everyone wants.

    Seems more likely that they are trying to pump up their IPO using this phone.

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      Just like Musk with the charade of “it’s coming” and as long as you keep excitement and act like it’s a game changer, the idiot investors will keep throwing money at it, propping it up. They’ve gotta believe by now it’s both unsustainable and a shitty product, but are just milking it dry for the sake of profits.

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        Their first pivot was trying to get their investors to buy them a chip manufacturing plant. That failed spectacularly. Now they want to sell phones? Just the market testing should kill that.

        Clearly investors for tech startups are all illiterate and love burning money, but this AI craze is worse than crypto. At least that was open and blatant fraud with high returns. This is just burning money until the economy keels over.

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          I’m starting to seriously wonder if ChatGPT is actually running OpenAI. It would explained Altman’s constant lying and telling people what they want to hear.

          Or he’s just another tech asshole.

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            He was a liar long before language models came into the scene. His first company he sold on a lie that there were hundreds of millions of users. There were less than 50k.

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          im seeing an new AI startup of some concept being advertised here in the west coast every few weeks, its worst than like 1-2 years ago, they are definitely getting desperate. all these conferences going on has switched to being 100% AI related here, rather than various techs, i wouldnt be surprised all these tech people going to these conference lose thier jobs due to layoffs in the near future are going to be disappointed they wont get to travel on company’s dime anymore. plus all these catering companies to openAI and thier conferences too. i work in the area where this all going on.

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      I had a razor phone 2. Another device made by a company who doesn’t make phones for a living.

      It was a piece of shit. The OS was buggy on the hardware, the hardware itself was bad, and the charger port was ever so slightly out of standard spec so using a normal usb-c cable on it would destroy the data/charge port. For the last year I used it I could only charge wirelessly, and unless ADB shell has a wireless mode these days, that means its very limitedly useful.

      (I finally found a use for it; using it in my car, which has a wireless charger, as a wifi device to carry data-syphoning apps to find EV chargers… I figure as long as it can’t access anything except when I give it hotspot off my current phone, it’s as data secure as possible while still giving me access to valuable info locked in an app)

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      Good luck. People will not be able to control their Sonos, listen to their music, use banking apps or check their social.

      Not having enough the right apps killed blackberry, windows mobile, windows phone, symbian and palmOS. But sure, a chatbot will be different.

      It would have worked 10+ years ago, when we had open apis and could connect to services without being forced into their walled gardens. But now? Nah.

      Edit: typo and clarified apps

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        no, but you see… all the apps are going to be vibe-coded on the fly every time you want to open one! Want to browse lemmy? “The user wants to browse a website, let’s build a browser…” [a few days later] “you reached your token limit, do you want to move to the Pro $1500 per month subscription and continue building your browser?”

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        Can’t you just vibe code your banking app? As long as I can make my balance higher, this will beat iphone rounded corners banking app.

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      OpenAI is joined at the hip with MS, right?

      What’s the bet this is MS’s attempt at getting back into the corporate mobile space again? Brand it as CoPilot Phone…