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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by philsnow on Friday October 28, 2022 @06:58PM (#33379043)
> his goal is the Everything App (which he calls X). The Everything App has news, social media, games, videos, and a payment infrastructure

so, WeChat?

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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by throwaway290 on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:32PM (#33379329)
Having used WeChat, LINE and the like I shudder. Not just because they naturally become bloated slow ugly behemoths to use but also because they more generally become de-facto monopolies. Not having to compete with anyone is the ultimate killer of innovation.
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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by bamboozled on Saturday October 29, 2022 @02:23AM (#33381496)
Same, I’m happy I have a bunch of different apps which are good at different things.
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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by inawarminister on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:16PM (#33379204)
WeChat for Anglosphere/the West could be a great innovation, to be fair.

WeChat in China, LINE in Japan, Gojek in Indonesia... A lot of those platforms are crazy profitable

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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by mattwest on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:28PM (#33379295)
The platform may be innovative, but monopolizing attention is horrible for future innovation.
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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by bamboozled on Saturday October 29, 2022 @02:22AM (#33381490)
The reason we don’t need an everything app is because we have a lot of good apps, that’s not the case in Japan, for example.
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