Elon Musk Says He Would Create His Own Smartphone if Apple & Google Ban Twitter From App Stores

Elon Musk vowed to create his own smartphone if Apple and Google ban Twitter from their app stores.

Podcaster and former OAN host Liz Wheeler had tweeted, “if Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should produce his own smartphone. Half the country would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android. The man builds rockets to Mars, a silly little smartphone should be easy, right?”

Musk responded: “I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone.”

I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2022

Wheeler then posted a Twitter poll asking, “would you switch to a tELONphone? Vote yes or no with your best pun for a name below.”

Would you switch to a tELONphone? Vote yes or no with your best pun for a name below.

— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) November 25, 2022

At the time of writing, the poll received about 60,000 responses.

55.6% of the respondents voted yes.

FOX Business reported:

Musk’s comments come after Phil Schiller, an Apple fellow who’s responsible for leading the App Store, deleted his Twitter account.

Yoel Roth, former head of trust and safety at Twitter, said in a New York Times op-ed that the social media giant risks being expelled from Apple and Google’s app stores if they fail to adhere to guidelines.

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“Failure to adhere to Apple’s and Google’s guidelines would be catastrophic, risking Twitter’s expulsion from their app stores and making it more difficult for billions of potential users to get Twitter’s services. This gives Apple and Google enormous power to shape the decisions Twitter makes,” Roth said.

Roth said that as he left Twitter, “the calls from the app review teams had already begun.”

Musk tweeted a poll on Wednesday, asking Twitter users if the company should “offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam?”

72% of respondents voted yes, and Musk then tweeted that “Amnesty begins next week.”

Elon Musk Twitter Poll: Should Twitter Grant Mass Amnesty to Suspended Accounts?