[mensetmanusman]

I was just thinking, since Apple is supposedly going to make a car, wouldn’t it be interesting if Tesla decided to make a smartphone since Google gave up.

[tonymet]

Pixel 5a was just released last week, and Pixel 6 will be out in a few weeks

[sarmadsohaib]

You are right man.

[mhh__]

Maybe it would be interesting but why on earth would they go for it?

It would be like them starting an F1 team, sure they probably have the engineering know-how but so does every team on the F1 grid.

[anonporridge]

Because Tesla is becoming a luxury tech brand, like Apple.

Almost no one buys Apple products for the tech anymore. It's all about aesthetics and brand identity. They might have had the best products at one point, but that's become secondary to their continued success.

Who wants to be the scrub with yet another iPhone when all the cool kids have the new Tesla phone that matches their S3XY electric car?

[nexuist]

It would be much more likely for Tesla to start a Formula E team, since F1 uses gas.

[mhh__]

Formula E is pretty much a spec series compared to F1, if anything they'd enter an endurance series but think any entry would be unlikely.

[Razengan]

No SIM, Starlink-only? Would be interesting.

[0_____0]

Might be tricky to package a beamforming V/Ku/Ka band antenna array into a cell phone.

[Razengan]

The phones could only connect to towers that connect to Starlink.

[sarmadsohaib]

Starlink is not available in many parts of the world.

[sarmadsohaib]

Nothing can be said. Everyone is behind more and more wealth. EVs makers making robots wo we can consider your are saying right at some extent.