{"slug": "there-is-no-phone", "title": "There Is No Phone", "summary": "OpenAI, Amazon, and SpaceX are all denying rumors that they are building smartphones, but the denials sound misleading as the tech industry increasingly needs to control its own hardware destiny. Apple and Google currently dominate the smartphone market, and other companies are exploring alternative devices to compete in the AI era.", "body_md": "# There Is No Phone\n\nOpenAI is [not building a phone](https://spyglass.org/openai-digital-assistant-device-jony-ive/). Amazon is [not building a phone](https://www.ft.com/content/99ab7093-d680-40ad-baa7-1c32302bb363?syn-25a6b1a6=1&ref=spyglass.org). And now SpaceX is [not building a phone](https://www.theverge.com/science/960442/spacex-phone-prototype-elon-musk?ref=spyglass.org). Are you sensing a trend?\n\nThe trend is that basically the entire tech industry is rumored to once again be building their own smartphones. But they're all denying it. But all of the denials sound [misdirecting at best](https://spyglass.org/amazon-phone-home/) and misleading at worst. Because *of course* [they should](https://spyglass.org/amazon-fire-phone-reborn-for-ai/) be building such a device. [As should Meta](https://spyglass.org/meta-apple-smartglasses-nightmare/) (again). And Microsoft (again). And everyone else who aims to control their own destiny. Because right now, Apple, and to a lesser extent, Google, does. And [that's going to continue](https://spyglass.org/apples-next-big-ai-thing-the-iphone/), perhaps well into the Age of AI.1\n\nSo the argument is really one of semantics. OpenAI isn't building a phone, they're building... [something else](https://spyglass.org/the-anti-iphone/). Amazon isn't building a phone, they're building... [something else](https://spyglass.org/amazon-ai-device/). SpaceX isn't building a phone...", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/there-is-no-phone", "canonical_source": "https://spyglass.org/there-is-no-phone/", "published_at": "2026-07-08 09:34:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-08 10:01:17.097027+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Amazon", "SpaceX", "Apple", "Google", "Meta", "Microsoft"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/there-is-no-phone", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/there-is-no-phone.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/there-is-no-phone.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/there-is-no-phone.jsonld"}}