Elon Musk has hinted yesterday that he may have "no other choice" but to release a new phone and possibly an accompanying application store to compete against the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
With Elon Musk turning heads after his major firings at Twitter to make the company more efficient, people are speculating that with his recent decisions to bring back people who were banned from Twitter, Apple and Google (Alphabet) may soon limit or outright block Twitter off of their app stores. If they do decide to block Twitter, this may be a direct hit to the growth of Twitter on their platforms. iOS users will have the hardest difficulty as iPhone's iOS is one of the most restrictive app stores already. Android users, on the other hand, have significantly far more options with third-party app stores that they can download.
If this does come to pass, Elon Musk will be hit hard, but with a driving force of many fans and political dissidents who are tired of Apple and Google, along with mainstream propaganda, there are many that are hoping for Elon Musk to release a phone anyways.
There is a primary option that Elon Musk can take if he does release a phone. He may use the Tesla brand to release a phone using Android OS (an open-source operating system), which instantly makes his phone compatible with all the apps created on the Google Play Store. Along with the "Tesla Phone", he can create a digital app store that competes directly with the Google Play Store and may offer even more competitive profit-sharing opportunities.
Elon Musk must be careful, Jeff Bezos Amazon has also tried to enter the fray with the Amazon Fire Phone which didn't perform to expectations, but the Amazon Fire HD Tablet still is available for sale today.
How do you feel about the possibility of seeing a "Tesla Phone" with its own application store reaching the market?
