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[–] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What better way to get you to pay them to steal and abuse your data?

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago

It comes pre-installed with "Your Palantir Pal" AI assistant.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Without proper consequences their behaviour will continue.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But, but, they're been blasted. Didn't you see in the article? Surely, they'll stop this behaviour this time.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Blasted is nothing, wake me up when they get slammed.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Profiteering is the wrong word.

Instead, crony capitalism, abuse of power, or something else is more appropriate

[–] Pirate@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Instead, crony capitalism, abuse of power, or something else is more appropriate

So, standard capitalism stuff?

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Kind of, except the person doing it is the sitting president. Call it an aggravating factor.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Let's break down who's actually going to buy this piece of shit.

Anyone with any experience with buying a modern Android phone?... Nope. Metro, Tello, US Cellular, etc are all cheaper than Trump Mobile by almost half the price and the phone itself is a REVVL variant selling for $500, and Apple fans aren't watching anyway.

So that just leaves extremely uninformed people who don't know any better. You'll be able to identify how little they know by the fact that they'll pay double the going-rate of an MVNO for an overpriced, gold slab of feces.

A lot of Apple fans are tied into their ecosystem, either by profession or just history with the brand. Any Android phone means upending their lives if they depend on their phones for business or pleasure, and a lot of them are Apple fans because Tim Cook keeps Trump 39.5ft away, so they're off the books.

TL/DR: Get ready to see a bunch of boomers walk out of church with gold phones.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the phone itself is a REVVL variant selling for $500

I don't think the phone actually exists, it's just a digital mockup.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 4 points 2 months ago

....that's even worse somehow

[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

39.5ft

Nice Grinch reference.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ho is his coin doing? Didn't hear much about that...

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

All his family coins are 95% down. The worse problem is that their coins were designed from the start with the sole purpose to draw donations indirectly to Trump ( and for favors in return? as the case was with Justin Sun, who is the #1 Trump coin holder, and he previously donated a million to trump to pardon him from his fraud case. )

Both of the Trump and Malenia coin whitepapers, fee percentages, premined allocations and locked durations...etc everything shows clear as day that it's a grift to the Trump family and that all coin revenues go to them that it's impossible for the coin to gain any value.

That's not my opinion. Those are the facts that everyone has reported on already.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

Ow it was clear to me it was a Grift, it's his only modus operandi.

Thanks for the detailed write up, very insightful!

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

I think that Trump feels that this will finally impress Ivana enough.

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Yes, but at this point it looks like the red sharpie is running dry.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

It's the latest in a long red line of red lines.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

But Trump just said he hates talking on phones….wtf?

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Y'all, the last thing the suckers who will buy this want is some Nanny State telling them they can't buy this.

It's a stupid fake phone. Let them buy it. Who cares? If not this, the grifters already have 700 other things lined up behind it. Let them pay for our schadenfreude, as they have done so many times before.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

The problem is not with the buyers.