Musk could release Tesla Phone if Apple, Google do this

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• Tesla isn’t planning to release a smartphone, CEO Elon Musk said during a podcast.
• Musk said Tesla would make a phone if Google and Apple censored apps and acted as gatekeepers.
• Some pieces of the puzzle are there for a Tesla phone, but history shows that this isn’t a good idea.

Rumors and disinformation about a Tesla smartphone have been circulating for years now, but company CEO Elon Musk has addressed the topic in a recent interview.

“No, we’re not doing a phone,” Musk told comedian Joe Rogan on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. The billionaire added that Tesla was “probably” in a better position to create a non-Android and non-iOS smartphone than other companies, pointing to the automaker’s software.




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