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OpenAI reportedly thinks its phone will sell as many units as the Samsung Galaxy series
(www.androidpolice.com)
Remember the Facebook phone? Exactly.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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Remember the Rabbit R1?
I wouldn't use an OpenAI phone if they paid me...
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.
They probably just asked ChatGPT, who said their idea was fantastic and would sell really well.
Would be real funny if they made a built in Ai with root access for it.. Totally not disastrous.
Strong digust triggering ideas presented by openai in here
AI companies have some of the worst projections ever conceived of by human minds. Im not remotely surprised they conned so many investors with them.
😂
I genuinely cannot believe that they think this is a good idea. After their whole Sora thing failed, you would think they would have gotten wiser, guess that's not the case. I cannot see a world where this thing do anything, but flop. Maybe they will sell them at a lost, but, even then, I have doubt that it will succeed.
I genuinely cannot believe that they think this is a good idea.
They probably don't care if it fails. I imagine that on some level it's just a high tech version of The Producers.
The owners make this announcement then start to harvest piles of money from gullible investors. Once they rake it all in, they piss it all away on their own paychecks and benefits packages as well on payments to suppliers and consulting firms. Of course, the same people also own the suppliers and consulting firms so all that money goes into their pockets as well. And it probably works out better if the product bombs because then those gullible investors won't expect to see any profits.
Roses are red
AI is slop
My homies can't wait
For this bubble to pop
Totally thought the last line was going to be:
"for this phone to flop"
Either way, good poem.
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.
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.
You better have a nice, big "fell for it again"-award ready for him. He'll need it for emotional support.
I will get the most amazing award. On top of being an AI shill, he's also an incel and racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, and transphobic.
I know why his ex wife left him and why his daughters don't communicate with him.
Are you sure he isn't just Grok inside a humanoid shell?
Oh shit he might be. How can I know for certain? What can I do to test this theory?
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
You would have fooled me if you’d have used more emojis.
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! 📞 📱 📴
What a shit 💩 day to have eyes 👀
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This is the future that Sam Altman wants
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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.
They’ll write off the losses. They don’t care.
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?
Sigh...
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).
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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.
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)
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.
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NAAAH, what kind of substance are they overdosing on to get this delusional?. Actually, nevermind, i just found the anwser: shareholders
No, they don't. But companies woking on borrowed money and market hype have to act like they invented breathable air. It's all marketing
Boy are they in for a rude awakening.
I hope they really go for it. Maybe it'll put them out of business.
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