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Waiting for Trump Phone
Since June of last year, products came and went. Not the T1.
Since June of last year, products came and went. Not the T1.
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Nothing moved the needle this week.
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_Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week__._ We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. Crickets.
Despite recent signs of life, another week has come and gone without the Trump T1 Phone. We’re now over nine months since its announcement in June of last year, and it just keeps missing ship dates. That’s enough time to gestate and birth a whole human baby! It’s also like, three (RIP) Samsung Galaxy Z TriFolds long. Which got me to thinking, what other products and services arrived — and maybe even departed — in the time that we’ve been waiting for the T1? Here is an incomplete list:
- The Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold was announced, went on sale, and was discontinued.
- OpenAI launched Sora 2 and its dedicated slop social video app, declared it was going gangbusters, and then killed it when investors got antsy about competing with Claude.
- Warner Bros. Discovery put itself up for sale, Netflix bought it, then just kidding it actually was sold to Paramount.
- Another live-service game arrived and swiftly departed.
- We survived the Labubu craze.
This is clearly not an exhaustive list of happenings, but you know, it puts things into perspective. Entire product life cycles have played out in the time since this dang phone was announced! Let me know what you’d add to the list in the comments, and if you gestated and birthed a human in this time I definitely want to hear about it.
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