Nov. 21, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| Another big thing we're focused on with our with our work is not just designing systems and products that protect data, but bringing manufacturing back here. | |
| So we're standing up an assembly line right now to build our product here, which is this is not easy. | |
| I mean, we have for a generation, more than a generation, we have funded the atrophying of this capability. | |
| There are not many people in the United States who know how to make a smartphone here. | |
| It's basically a non-existent specialty here. | |
| So building this muscle, we're having to really start from the basics, starting with assembly and then, you know, various component manufacturing. | |
| But this is going to take work and ingenuity, but it's doable. | |
| And we're Americans. | |
| This is what we do. | |
| We innovate, we work. | |
| It's time to roll up our sleeves. | |
| So I think in many ways, the metaphor of surrendering the manufacturing to China, oh yeah, take care of it for us at a nice margin. | |
| And we see what's happened. | |
| Their cities have gone up and our cities have turned into slums. | |
| In the same way, we've surrendered the rights to our data as these massive companies of software designers have grown up and mom-and-pop businesses have withered. | |
| Right? | |
| So yeah, I think that this is a national security issue. | |
| It's an economic issue. | |
| It's a cultural issue. | |
| It's a civil liberties issue. | |
| And it's time for us to kind of get in the ring as innovators, as primarily as customers. | |
| This to me is the big battleground. | |
| The main message I want to send to people is explore alternatives. | |
| And we have, I believe, the best one of them, but find the right one for you. | |
| But find alternatives. | |
| And there are many. | |
| This notion that we have to sacrifice freedom and safety for convenience is an illusion. | |
| And a lot of technology trends are making possible today what was not possible even a few years ago for new platforms to exist. | |
| And we're one of them. | |
| So what do we offer? | |
| We offer a smartphone platform, meaning it's a phone and it's a software ecosystem that is designed on a few really key differentiating elements. | |
| Number one, we make no money at all, directly or indirectly from customer data. | |
| And we give customers tools to make it harder for third parties to get their data. | |
| And there's layers of this. | |
| So the way I would describe the smartphone data safety sphere, it's like a diamond with different facets. | |
| And we're trying to bring and we're bringing protection to each one. | |
| So the first key here is when you're talking about this space, there's a tendency to think like, how do I get off the grid? | |
| How do I totally remove myself, turn the signal to zero? | |
| And I would encourage us to take a less black and white attitude towards this. | |
| Obviously, we want to get the number, we want to get the signal as close to zero as possible. | |
| But I think that there's a tendency to look for fantastical scenarios that are not realistic. | |
| Our goal here is to get better and better and better and reduce the digital footprint in many, many ways. | |
| So what is one of the most important ways that our digital footprint grows out is with this third-party data harvesting. | |
| This is the big open front door. | |
| There are other ways to. |
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