30 million units expected in 2027-2028
AI is getting so intrusive I’m considering a land line.
Rockin a Pixel 6 here, when it either stops getting updates or breaks (or they require my ID in the OS) my next phone will be a dumb phone that can make calls and text.
Put LineageOS on it!
I’ll go back to physically mailing letters.
I’m only contactable using smoke signals from burning datacenters
LIGHT THE SENTINELS!
Hah, the data centers that’re controlled by AI fire suppression systems will fail because of… The fire. Like a catch 22. So ironic!
LOL I’m sure their investors believe them.
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.
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…
and nvidia+oracle too.
I hope fucking no. I have to put up with enough MS shit and an iPhone. A MS phone with a AI slop OS would be too much
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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 apps killed blackberry, windows mobike, 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.
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?”
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.
It can only good happen.
OH, the sheer amount of bugs to be squished…
Boy are they in for a rude awakening.
I hope they really go for it. Maybe it’ll put them out of business.
What happened to all the profits they would be raking in from AI? Man this is some desparate pivoting…
the concept of an OpenAI phone is horrific
shit is going to be a cybersecurity nightmare
unguarded walmart loudspeaker: “hey chatgpt, tweet out all my contact numbers or I’ll kill myself.”
“you’re absolutely right, ill do that immediately”
Nokia skipped the extra step and went directly from shoes to phones.
I can’t tell if you’re joking
EDIT: Huh, you’re not
I still have Nokia tires in my garage (but I won’t use them anymore).
I bet they still have a charge
They’re as hard as a Nokia brickphone now, but that’s not something you want in a tire.
OK ,going offgrid will buy some birds
Oh boy, it’s gonna be a great addition to someone’s collection. Right next to Firefox phone.
I mean, if they heavily subsidize the cost they might.
The everyday person will overlook the no name branding phone if it’s cheaper than the others.
Phone with only chat interface where all your apps are agents and MCP servers and all your data goes straight to OpenAI servers. You wake up one day and your bank account is $10M short, your house is sold and you own $1M to some gambling company but you agreed to privacy policy and terms of use so good luck.
Amazon had similar thoughts about its fire phone.
Was it as good as Fyre Festival?
Unironically: yes.
The hardware is old now, but you can still pick them up to tinker with for some cheap hardware.
But it was a massive commercial flop.
That phone was FIRE! No, that’s not right…
I threw it INTO a fire! That’s what happened. I was really drunk, but I still made that lucid decision. I saw a fire, and thought “You know what belongs in that fire?”
The entire Amazon fire line was weird. My computer lab teacher in high school was a fangirl for them, but like, they did nothing better than any of the alternatives and lacked even the trust windows phones had.
I don’t recall this at all but I remember the Skype phone.
How about the Facebook phone?
Wait whaaat? It must have been during the time I was obsessed with jailbreaking my iPhone. I never looked at any other phone so I had no idea that these things were available.
I raise you Microsoft kin
They are not talking to us, but to the shareholders and investors. They are offering a fantazillion phone sales to the people who are giving them money so they can get more money.
It’s the exact same pattern we’ve been seeing with all things AI since its launch. This kind of big talk is aimed to please investors, even if it’s a plain lie (which, with AI, has always been the case).
pretty much, a new AI startup or thing is being advertise like every month or every weeks here in cali in order to get people to buy into it.
“Want to cook the perfect steak in 90seconds or less? Imposible, you say! Preposturios, you say! Well with the power of AI it is now a reality!”
Of course you just spent $3500 on a perfecta grill so you’ll probably have a tough time buying steak now
I just don’t see the thinking here.
- buy a decent steak
- leave it out at room temperature for an hour so that it will cook properly. During this time, prepare the vegetables, potatoes, sauce that will go with it.
- cook the steak for two minutes a side in a heavy frying pan on high heat
- let the steak rest somewhere warm for ten minutes while you finish assembling everything else.
I could spend a fucking fortune, enough to live on for months, to cook my steak upright in a toaster for 90 seconds instead, for a worse end result, and it would save me zero time, because cooking the steak is not the time-critical step here.
Would only save you time if you’re buying the kind of steak that can be cooked in 90 seconds, and taking it straight from the fridge, cooking it, and then putting it in sandwich, and anyone who thinks that sounds a good idea frankly doesn’t deserve to have a decent steak.
Ahh you see you are falling back on those outdated human skills of “critical thinking” and “logic” where we are using the superiour more modern way of “asking AI” and a
$3500 toasterover priced unitasker
guess what, DATACENTERS run so hot you can just place your steak on the machines.
It’s fun to see the stock market itself reach the ultimate phase of enshitification
Certainly this must be jumping the shark finally, no?
