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OpenAI reportedly thinks its phone will sell as many units as the Samsung Galaxy series
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this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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Talk about being delusional
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
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
and nvidia+oracle too.
OH, the sheer amount of bugs to be squished…