Nobody Wants This (A Sammy & Jony Smartphone)

’Tis But Some Quick News for April 27, 2026 I’ll happily go on record that this product is DOA. Nobody wants an “AI” smartphone from Clammy Sammy Alt-Man, and while any new hardware product designed by the legendary Jony Ive will have some initial appeal (assuming Ive is even still at the helm of this new project), it obviously wouldn’t be enough to get people to give up their beloved iPhones (or even Android phones for that matter). You can come back in several years and quote me on this. If this is OpenAI’s next big money-making play, they are utterly doomed. OpenAI is working on a smartphone in what appears to be a significant reversal from previous reports that the company had no plans to enter the phone market, according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The development represents a notable reversal in OpenAI’s publicly stated hardware strategy. Previous reports have consistently described the company’s hardware ambitions as centered on non-phone form factors developed in…