Ellis Rovin

So is there anything that we think OpenAI could do in their smartphone that would give them an advantage that others, like Google makes phones, Apple makes phones, like that they couldn't do?

Or is it just going to get hype because it's open AI?

The main thing that I'm thinking about is like if they build their chipsets and their phones specifically to be more optimized for things like continuous contextual processing, right?

Like if it's always listening or something like that.

In a way that like Google wouldn't with Tensor and Gemini?

Because they're going to try that.

Google could with Tensor on the Pixel later, but they would have to start doing that now, which maybe they already did.

Apple would never really do that, I don't think.

I just feel like this makes a lot of sense for OpenAI and not a lot of sense for the customer that's going to be using it because I already have a phone.

Just because Apple doesn't let OpenAI do certain things on the phone, that's not my problem.

They said it's to compete with the iPhone, so it's going to be directly.

Of course it is, because they want to be able to do things that Apple won't let them do.

Exactly.

It's the direct competitor to the iPhone because Apple will never let OpenAI do all the things that they want to do on the iPhone.

So OpenAI makes their own hardware.

People who are willing and want all that context and all this stuff in their account to work best on a phone will prefer it, I guess, over the iPhone because of all that stuff.

And hopefully it also does all the stuff Apple does well.

I mean, the crazy thing is that apps would not, like, there's not going to be app developers for this.

Yeah, there's so many other things that come with making a smartphone that you have to get good at so fast, like developers, cameras.

Yeah, I suppose, unless you believe the kind of pie-in-the-sky idea that Sam Altman keeps talking about where apps don't need to exist anymore because you can just ask it to do things and it will just do everything.