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> 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?
by philsnow 4y ago
> 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?
- inawarminister 4y agoWeChat 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
- algoatecorn 4y agoThe platform may be innovative, but monopolizing attention is horrible for future innovation.
- bamboozled 4y agoThe 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.
- throwaway290 4y agoHaving 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.
- bamboozled 4y agoSame, I’m happy I have a bunch of different apps which are good at different things.