it’s interesting that openai is building toward a phone (instead of just earbuds) cuz this is probably the first moment where that isn’t obviously insane. lots of others like fb, microsoft, amazon, & others failed because they were trying to enter the smartphone market without a new computing paradigm. i.e. they were building another phone inside apple & google’s world. that meant they needed all the same things like an app store, messaging, developers, services, hardware, support,…