Well, here we are again, a billionaire is making a phone. Forgive me for sounding less than excited. Like, we’ve been here before. We’ve seen totally legitimate not-criminals ranging from Pablo Escobar to the President of the United States announce that they were getting into the smartphone game, only for the former’s CEO to be convicted of fraud and the latter, well, we’re still waiting on our Trump Phone to ship.
So, you can imagine my excitement with the news that Elon Musk is apparently kicking around the idea of launching a Starlink-powered SpaceX phone. It’s definitely, totally going to happen, and it doesn’t at all seem like something that will backfire and cause other networks to move away from Starlink. Just kidding, here’s why I don’t think anything will come of the SpaceX phone.