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[Xitter] just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it's building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named [Xitter] TV wants to be “your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.”

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

You made some giant deal about Musk odor being shunted to the business section but here this is. BARELY qualified as tech news because IT’S HIM. He’s nothing but futureware & farts.

PUT EVERYTHING MUSK INTO YOUR BUSINESS SECTION SO WE DON’T GOTTA FUUUICKIN SEE IT. CHRIST

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I'm going to call it "coughshitter" because that's what it sounds like

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Let me guess, the streaming services on it will be like DailyWire+, PragerU. What else

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

He didn't get the Twitter app for Roku when he bought them? I remember having to install that app to watch some NFL game or something.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Musk probably wanted to create something like WeChat, so that he has all the power.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

He's blatantly stated as much before. He wants Twitter to be the everything app, the WeChat of the US

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

He’s been saying it since the 90s. His “X App” is just the latest iteration of his want to create an all-encompassing “X” platform for everything from dating to banking.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

With all his meddling it's not even the Twitter of the US anymore

[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago

I'm just here to watch Phony Stark continue to light money on fire.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

A smart TV app from the guy who pulled Disney channels from the Tesla app due to a bruised ego over a Twitter argument? I can't wait for this to crash and burn.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Xitter, nice name, sounds like an adolescent skin condition.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I always mentally read that as "shitter"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

That’s the goal. (Unsure of sarcasm)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We are back at "Elon says" posts :-(

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, because he is funny, and he is probably the person who knows most about production living on earth today.
I like how he is modest enough to acknowledge there might be aliens that know more than him. /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah lol it's crazy, but he actually said that., except I didn't get the wording 100% right, he didn't even say "probably":
https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1555254864791289856

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Your /s wasn't not big enough, I got you

/s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I don't think you are riled up enough considering the importance of the issue. /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

If it integrates properly with tv that will be one thing better than Netflix at least…

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In 12 months when he gets called on it by debtors (since Shitter has no shareholders) he'll try to buy Pluto TV and claim that was the plan the whole time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

When is this guy gonna go bankrupt? Before he even starts his channel I’m already tired of his shit show

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Musk is all over the place lately, claiming his Xai bots are doing practical work in the factory already, and will be ready for mass deployment "next year", Which ought to be his nick name now. "Next year Musk".
He also claimed a few days ago that robo-taxis were only months away.
New model cars from Tesla planned to arrive next year, should be moved up to arrive this year instead.
The man must be desperate or on coke or probably both, he has always over-promised and under delivered, but these latest promises are over the top even for him.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Every time he says "this year" or "next year," it's at least 4 years away. He's so full of shit that even his internal clock stinks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Noo that can't be it, he has said it's prescribed and only a low dosis. /s
Whatever he is on, I definitely don't want it, seems he is getting more and more crazy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Fully functional robotic taxis are already here, they’re just not made by western companies. It’s doubtful musks will ever work at this point, his “fully-automated self-driving” is vaporware.

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