Lol please let every Trump supporter buy his service. Suddenly, Trump ass kissers will have less reliable access to the internet and phone service?! Sounds like a good idea to me.
Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand
Submitted 9 months ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.gerbenlaw.com/blog/new-trademark-filings-suggest-trump-may-launch-wireless-phone-brand/
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NatakuNox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
poopkins@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Register his own root Certificate Authority as well and this man is well on his way towards global surveillance.
themakara@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Compete with them will using their networks, sure.
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Damn he’s milking every penny. Did he just discover late stage capitalism?
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 9 months ago
He already sold beans in the oval office, golden shoes and shitcoins. I think he’s way past discovering it.
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
o look, more illegal shit. great.
drhodl@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is just todays stupid idea, just to take peoples attention away from yesterdays shitty “perade”(sic).
skozzii@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Thank God the swamp is gone.
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
The only reason it will compete with those brands is cause if some kind of agreement.
rayyy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Get cha them Chyna phones MAGA folks.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It’s gonna be labeled as some private cell service but it actually logs everything you do in their servers and use it for some nefarious purpose.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
A president is allowed to found companies?
Either way, he sure has time on his hands.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 9 months ago
It’s crazy how taxing that job must be.
Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The picture I saw of it looks 100% like the standard practice of rebranding a terrible iPhone-like android device that could only be manufactured in China. Just take a look at “luxury” phones of the early 2020s. Absolutely 100% a scam by idiots for idiots.
Mkbhd: Escobar Phone youtu.be/O8FJSjy3bXA
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Another article tracked down the phone and it’s just a Tmobile REVVL in a different case. They pointed out that you can buy one for $169 while Trump is selling his for $500-$600.
RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Hello??
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
It’s going to be a cheap low-priority MVNO with deceptive wording to make it sound like its own network. Absolutely zero chance it’ll be competitive in any way.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Came to say this - either its going to use existing infrastructure owned by those companies, or it’s going to completely suck. In neither case that’s competition
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Oh it’s 100% gonna be an MVNO, it’s expensive as fuck to roll out new infrastructure, and something like that certainly wouldn’t go unnoticed anyway.
It’s just gonna be the worst shit-tier kind of MVNO. Like Cricket back in the 2000s. Service = maybe.
mercano@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Won’t stop the red hats from buying it out of loyalty to the Emperor.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
True. Then it’ll get absorbed by one of the bigger MVNOs, or one of the main networks’ prepaid services, and become a cheap subsidiary or just get dissolved completely.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 9 months ago
The word “could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence
InnerScientist@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No matter your stance on Trump you must agree that it isn’t completely outside the realm of possibilities.
DokPsy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
He took the KISS method of advertising/marketing. Slap the brand name on everything you can to squeeze out as much money from the "fan base"as possible
rumba@piefed.zip 9 months ago
Competitors severely penalized in 3...2...
The great wireless firewall of America.
Ulrich@feddit.org 9 months ago
At this point anyone who buys Trump-branded shit get what’s coming to them. Dude is the most notorious grifter in history.
tourist@lemmy.world 9 months ago
are you saying all my Trumpcoins, Trump NFTs, degrees from Trump university and deep frozen Trump steaks are worthless
kittyjynx@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Just drink some Popov grade Trump Vodka at one of his many totally not bankrupt casinos to take your mind off of it.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 9 months ago
Why do Americans feel the need to name state run shit with their own name?
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 9 months ago
It’s not even state run he’s just filling his pockets god damn
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I would bet A LOT of money that all of your messages would be viewable by him
atrielienz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Could compete how? He gonna buy infrastructure? He gonna be an MVNO? (None of whom are really competitive with the big players because a lot of them are either regional, have to buy bathes of data and minutes from the big three, or have pretty bad service). And who’s going to o buy it? His supporters? I doubt that. This is just another grift.
frunch@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I just imagine he has a giant carnival wheel that’s marked with all sorts of reprehensible things to do and he just spins it whenever he’s bored and proceeds to executive order whatever he lands on
mintiefresh@piefed.ca 9 months ago
All parts will be manufactured and assembled in the US? Right?
Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Lol, yeah this doesn’t scream android phone full of spyware at all! It’s definitely not going to just be a rebranded Chinese made phone that we assemble in like Louisiana and can say is “American made”
drhodl@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Nah. He’ll just have the sticker that says “American made” made in America.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 9 months ago
And by american made it means designed by a guy in america usin A.I, droppshipping it from china.
Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Worse he’s promising that they’ll eventually be made in America. Just like he promised a new health care plan
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I wonder if he’ll use Starlink…
ServeTheBeam@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sounds like a great way to surveil everyone.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I’ve got bad news about your phone.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
If by “everyone” you mean the people stupid enough to buy a made-in-China Trump phone.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 9 months ago
Oh no a made in china phone. What a horrible thought.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
With American-made phones and American call centres, right? Right?
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 9 months ago
“Good morning and thanks for calling MAGA Mobile. Please listen to the options and make your selection for the best possible service. For Spanish, press 423 and wait for a knock on the door. For English, god bless Trump…”
LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
… "For English, say ‘God bless Trump’ …”
Fixed that for you /s (… I really want off this apocalyptic ride)
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Why did I read this in an Indian accent?
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
more illegal shit
Errorcode7@programming.dev 9 months ago
Don’t forget the great Dish Wireless Network!
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s literally a political franchise.
Despite the stupidity of looks, to be honest - this looks from outside very US-American. Not like cowboy movies, not even like 30s, but like something written by Baum.