Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote

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Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote
engadget.com

[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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Great, now I’m going to have to put my TV in car wash mode…

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

That guy should stop doing….well ALL the drugs.

He should do more of them, actually.

Someone start a rumor that a fentanyl laced k hole unlocks the other 90% of your brain, stat

Haha yes very good

(what does any of that mean, I'm not down with the kids these days)

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

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

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.

Please, do anything fucking useful with your vast amounts of wealth. Anything.

Well, my hope is appearance of [Xitter] TV as streaming service, will force other services to be less Xittier. Kind of anti-enshittification pill. But that’s about it.

All the other services, at once: "Nah nah, hold my beer, WE are the shittiest of them all"

Agree, but for human tǔrds of his size I think you gotta bait his ego, like challenge him that he’s too much of a “pedo guy” to donate to the ACLU or something 🤷‍♂️

Imagine being so entrepreneurial that you think you need to buy twitter for way more than its worth in order to develop an app that does something entirely unrelated.

20$ says that this never actually happens in a meaningful way.

$44b says your probably right

Multiple bankrolls from saudia arabia and other authoritarian instigators to cover this wager

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.

coke

He's on ketamine.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

How is the X in xitter pronounced? Is it "sh" like in Xi? This seems to fit this time line, but it would be nice to have confirmation.

English is a descriptive language instead of prescriptive, so make it happen!

That's how I use it. And it works.

Justin on MBMBAM recently talked about a "Xeet" instead of a tweet, pronounced "Zeet" and I thought that was also hilarious.

your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.

Propaganda app full of right wing video, fox news, Russia Today and the TikTok channel.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Great... Now we'll need to make another client team in Jellyfin 😆

Or leave that one out. I don't think there's much value in adding right-wing video podcasts, racists, and Russian propaganda to Jellyfin.