• drhodl@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    This is just todays stupid idea, just to take peoples attention away from yesterdays shitty “perade”(sic).

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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    8 hours 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.

  • Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world
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    10 hours 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 https://youtu.be/O8FJSjy3bXA

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      5 hours 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.

  • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    It’s going to be a cheap low-priority MVNO with deceptive wording to make it sound like its own independent network. Absolutely zero chance it’ll be competitive in any way.

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      5 hours 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

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        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.

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        8 hours 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. But by that point they’ll already be onto the next grift.

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    10 hours ago

    He’s just dangling it out there so one of the competitors buys his “business”. He doesn’t actually want to make anything. It’s another grift in disguise.

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    11 hours ago

    The word “could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence

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      5 hours ago

      No matter what your stance on Trump is, you must agree that it isn’t completely outside the realm of possibilities.

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    12 hours ago

    Competitors severely penalized in 3…2…

    The great wireless firewall of America.

  • Ulrich@feddit.org
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    13 hours ago

    At this point anyone who buys Trump-branded shit get what’s coming to them. Dude is the most notorious grifter in history.

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      12 hours ago

      are you saying all my Trumpcoins, Trump NFTs, degrees from Trump university and deep frozen Trump steaks are worthless