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

submitted by RGB3x3

www.engadget.com/elon-musk-says-its-his-turn-to…

[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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🚫🍌 no banana

Is it going to be called xvideos?

mPony

the only massive pile of wank in that equation would be Elon.

Emptiness

Shitter TV. Only spelled differently.

Justas🇱🇹

Ah, yes , the XTV, just like porn, but the one getting fucked is you!

Fapper_McFapper

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

seaQueue

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

RGB3x3 [OP]

If it looks like a joke and sounds like a joke, it's probably made by Elon Musk.

ClusterBomb

Either that, or it's an actual joke.

Danterious

No those don't exist anymore.

Cloudless ☼

The only X button I need is the close button.

slimarev92

Get ready for new shows starring Ben Shapiro and Gina Carano, or whatever right wing loser they manage to attract.

muse

Get ready for the Hard R channel. It's just straight up racism 24/7

wreckedcarzz

Half of America: why am I suddenly erect?

Billiam

No, the Daily Liar is already trying to push into mass entertainment. It's more likely to have Fucker Carlson and Alex "I need money to pay my civil judgements for my lies about Sandy Hook" Jones.

SteefLem

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

Karyoplasma

He should do more of them, actually.

muse

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

wreckedcarzz

Haha yes very good

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

sugar_in_your_tea

k hole

Being so high on ketamine that you experience an intense detachment from reality.

jeffw

Mostly ketamine

NeoNachtwaechter

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

Buffalox , edited

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

Buffalox , edited

Yeah lol it's crazy, but he actually said that., except I didn't get the wording 100% right, he didn't even say "probably":
https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1555254864791289856

helpImTrappedOnline , edited

Your /s wasn't not big enough, I got you

/s

Buffalox

I don't think you are riled up enough considering the importance of the issue. /s

👍Maximum Derek👍 , edited

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.

retrieval4558

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

KingJalopy

$44b says your probably right

muse

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

Hildegarde

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.

Buffalox , edited

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.

pivot_root

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.

Bartsbigbugbag , edited

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.

Billiam

coke

He's on ketamine.

Buffalox , edited

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.

Brokkr

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.

Buffalox

Yes Sh sound is absolutely what is generally meant. Making it shitter.

spearz

Is a tweet now a sheet…on the shitter?

Buffalox

That would make sense. 😋

themadcodger

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

retrieval4558

In my head, it's more like Zitter

RGB3x3 [OP]

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.

Sanctus

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

VaultBoyNewVegas

Skydiving without a parachute would be my first choice.

beefbot

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 🤷‍♂️

MxM111

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.

wreckedcarzz

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

Quetzalcutlass , edited

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.

MonkderDritte

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

body_by_make

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

Jackie's Fridge

With all his meddling it's not even the Twitter of the US anymore

Telodzrum

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.

SlopppyEngineer

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.

beefbot

unsubscribe elon musk

Buffalox , edited

Yeah that probably works about as well as unsubscribing from cat facts.
https://www.theverge.com/2014/7/28/5945917/an-ancient-reddit-prank-about-cat-facts-is-now-a-real-product

beefbot

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

Substance_P

Xitter, nice name, sounds like an adolescent skin condition.

Ostrichgrif

I always mentally read that as "shitter"

Mbourgon everywhere

That’s the goal. (Unsure of sarcasm)

just_another_person

🥱

Gingerlegs

Please god no

ME5SENGER_24

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

skymtf

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

bitchkat

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.

olutukko

I'm going to call it "*cough*shitter" because that's what it sounds like

radiant_bloom

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

RemembertheApollo

"Xitter"?

Reads like "chitter", sounds creepy enough.

muse

Shitter is the mutually agreed upon pronunciation

1hitsong

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

pivot_root

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.