Money can make the ghost grind, Musk finally bought Twitter for $44 billion, the next step is finally to build a mobile phone?
On April 24, Musk tweeted a tweet to recruit smartwatch/mobile phone experts: "If you have designed or manufactured smart watches or smartphones, please join Neuralink (a neurotechnology and brain-computer interface company in Musk)!" Your skills will come in handy directly. ”
There are rumors that Musk will build a smartphone named "Model π" and directly divide the market for iPhones; some people say that Musk will take the Model π to Mars for communication engineering infrastructure.
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Why did Musk recruit mobile phone experts just because he was eyeing the fat meat of the mobile phone business? Let's take stock of where Neuralink comes in.
Founded in 2016, Neuralink is Musk's neurotechnology and brain-computer interface company that focuses on the implementation of brain-computer interface technology. However, at present, the progress of Neuralink is somewhat "water retrograde", and 15 of the 23 experimental monkeys used to implant brain-computer interface chips have been hung up.
So what does the smartphone have to do with this "young" brain-computer company? On the surface, it doesn't seem to matter much, but perhaps Musk has already secretly laid out a big picture that includes people, cars, machines, and nets.
Car companies to make mobile phones have long been not interlaced like mountains
Tesla CEO Musk's news of making a mobile phone can be called "want" smell, but it is not a "new" smell, after all, this face has also been seen in China.
As early as 2021, Geely boss Li Shufu announced that he would build mobile phones, and recently he has also won the appearance patent authorization.
In March this year, the new car-making force Weilai also spread rumors of making mobile phones, and received a positive response from founder Li Bin.
In an interview with NetEase News, Li Bin said that Weilai's mobile phone business is in the research stage, but this move is not to compete with the hot models in the mainstream market, but "in order to build a mobile phone with a better connection with Weilai's car, look at the mobile phone from the perspective of the car, and do mobile IOT equipment with the car as the center." ”
That is to say, Weilai's mobile phone business will mainly focus on improving the interactive functions of its own cars, such as car-machine interconnection, file transfer, AR, VR projection, and car-machine voice assistant services.
Why do you want to engage in car-machine interconnection? Because these functions are the core of the terminal discourse involving the intelligent cockpit system. After all, the smart cockpit is a fresh and hot piece of food, which car company does not want to share it in its pocket?
You think that car companies are starting to build mobile phones without doing business, but in fact, this is a kind of integrated ecological wisdom. This is true of Geely and Weilai, and Tesla has also taken this step.
Musk makes a mobile phone and puts a long line to catch big fish
However, a gluttony can not fill the big appetite of Tesla boss Musk. If his smartphone Model π really made, it can be said that the "flour" that has not yet been made into a glutton, and the "wheat" that grows in the ground, will be harvested by Musk alone.
Why? This goes back to the acquired Twitter mentioned at the beginning.
As one of the most influential social platforms in the world, Statista's statistics in 2021 show that Twitter has nearly 400 million users, with the United States accounting for the largest proportion of users, followed by Japan and India; daily active users exceed 200 million.
If the rumors are true, Musk's smartphone Model π will be officially available in 2024. Although it seems a little difficult to go to Mars to cook phone porridge after just two years, the big game that capitalist Musk has laid on the earth can be said to be calculated on the head of every Twitter user.
You think, Twitter account has, Model π mobile phone has, Tesla cars have, car-machine interconnection that are small cases, Twitter account and owner ID integration to control the intelligent cockpit system is logical, water to water.
Since you have embarked on the platform, is it not cheap not to open the cloud - don't forget, the foreign "Alipay" PayPal also has 20% of Musk's shares. In addition to the real money in the bank account, Musk can even be "virtual" on the whole. He can not only send Dogecoin to Mars, but also put the entire virtual currency electronic asset business into the bag in the future.
In this way, relying on VR and AR technology to realize the interconnection of the virtual world and the real world, Musk's platform, terminal and cloud business in the three major areas of business are three-legged. It is conceivable that eventually he will build a brilliant "Musk Empire" in the metaverse.
Multiple identities of the world's richest man: the "great president" of the metacosm? "Iron Man" in outer space?
When enough is enough of the world's richest man, Musk's next career plan may be the "big president" of the meta-universe.
However, for Musk, who lives to the old and tosses to the old, there are more tricks to go to Mars to engage in communication foundations. As far away as it sounds, this is not a fantasy for mad Musk.
Back in 2015, SpaceX launched the Starlink "Starlink" satellite network program, which has launched more than 2,100 low-mass Low Earth Orbit (LEO) small satellites, claiming to provide "low-latency, high-bandwidth Internet access to sparse, moderately sparse and relatively low-density areas."
Simply put, it is to extend internet signals to every inch of the earth's soil, including no man's land in extreme environments.
Also in the extreme environment of the unmanned area of the network, through the Earth's orbit can be achieved, switch mars orbit theoretically why not? This may mean that the Starlink satellite network will be able to enable wireless communication on Mars.
Musk is probably going to be promoted from "Iron Man of Silicon Valley" to "Iron Man of Outer Space", good for him. After all, one of his great desires was to travel to Mars, buried in the sand dunes of the Red Planet.