• BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    16 days

    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.

    • unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish
      16 days

      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.

      • EvergreenGuru@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16 days

        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.

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
          16 days

          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.

        • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          16 days

          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.

          • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
            16 days

            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.

    • jagermo@feddit.orgEnglish
      16 days

      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

      • andallthat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16 days

        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?”

      • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
        16 days

        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.

    • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nzEnglish
      16 days

      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…

    • ButteryMonkey@piefed.socialEnglish
      15 days

      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)

      • felsiq@piefed.zipEnglish
        16 days

        I’m only contactable using smoke signals from burning datacenters

    • lost_faith@lemmy.caEnglish
      16 days

      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.

        • lost_faith@lemmy.caEnglish
          15 days

          I specifically got this phone for the extended support (Graphene/Lineage), which I will look into again, but it looks like the notorious G is gonna make it harder to do. The only things I do on my phone these days is browse lemmy when not at a PC, play a stupid time waster - family guy quest for stuff, and text or call a very select few people, I know the phone numbers of all the people I actually interact with. At this point a smart phone is not overly useful to me. I never use my phone to pay for anything as I have debit/credit/cash in my pocket

      • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        16 days

        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.

    • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
      16 days

      I don’t recall this at all but I remember the Skype phone.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15 days

      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.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      16 days

      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?”

  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
    16 days

    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).

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      16 days

      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.

      • MadPsyentist@lemmy.nzEnglish
        16 days

        “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!”

        https://seergrills.com/

        Of course you just spent $3500 on a perfecta grill so you’ll probably have a tough time buying steak now

        • addie@feddit.ukEnglish
          15 days

          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.

          • MadPsyentist@lemmy.nzEnglish
            15 days

            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 toaster over priced unitasker

    • Aqarius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16 days

      It’s fun to see the stock market itself reach the ultimate phase of enshitification

  • mrmaplebar@fedia.io
    16 days

    Boy are they in for a rude awakening.

    I hope they really go for it. Maybe it’ll put them out of business.

    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15 days

      My one coworker is an AI shill and I love reminding him that this is gonna be the dotcom bubble all over again. He was an adult when the dotcom bubble burst and apparently he had invested a lot into shit back then lmao. I was a kid so I didn’t even know what an economy is.

      • IratePirate@feddit.orgEnglish
        15 days

        You better have a nice, big “fell for it again”-award ready for him. He’ll need it for emotional support.

      • DaleGribble88@programming.devEnglish
        15 days

        Maybe not a great example. I mean, most companies riding the dot com bubble went bust, but many if not most of the big players from back then are still around today in some form or another. Not to mention that the idea of the world wide web changing the physical world and the commerce that takes place on it wasn’t wrong either.

    • MIDItheKID@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15 days

      Totally thought the last line was going to be:

      “for this phone to flop”

      Either way, good poem.

  • radiofreebc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15 days

    They probably just asked ChatGPT, who said their idea was fantastic and would sell really well.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16 days

    You are a ✨visionary✨ that sees things nobody else does! It’s not going to be a failure, it’s going to exceed all expectations! By the year ✨2030✨ everybody will own an OpenAI phone! 🎖️🎖️🎖️✨✨✨🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊❤️❤️❤️

    ~ ChatGPT, probably

      • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
        16 days

        You 👈🏼 👈 😏 are a ✨visionary✨ that 💫 🍆 👏 sees 👀😲 👀 😲 things 👺🅰️ 😏 👀 nobody 🙄 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️ 🙅🤐 else 🙅‍♀️ 🏿😩 😔 does! 👏 😒 😳❓ It’s not 😒 ❌ 🚯 going 🏃🏇 🏃 🏃 to be 🐝🐝 ❌ 😡🐝 a failure, 🚫 ❗🚫 🚫 it’s going 🏃 🏃🏿🖤 🧳 to exceed all 💯 💯 😩 expectations! By ⏩😈 👷😗 😈 the year 😉😏 🎉💥 🤭😭😭😭🤷🏻‍♀️ ✨2030✨ everybody 👴👵👨 👩👨 😡 will 🐼 🎀 😏 own 😎 💌 💌 an OpenAI phone! 📞 📱 📴

    • Konstant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15 days

      Oh, my bad. It was always a possibility that it would not get big sales. You’re right we should stop it before it gets a bigger flop.

  • vane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16 days

    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.

    • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15 days

      Everyone has a price. My price is many many times higher than whatever money they’d make back selling my data and advertising to me.

  • melfie@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16 days

    An official member of the US military industrial complex is making a phone with a proprietary OS that hoovers up your data and shoves AI slop in your face 24/7. What’s not to like?