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Nobody is asking for a "Wechat" in the west. It's not something I've ever seen anyone craving for. And no need to spend 44,000,000,000$ on twitter if all you w

by ulfw 3y ago

Nobody is asking for a "Wechat" in the west. It's not something I've ever seen anyone craving for. And no need to spend 44,000,000,000$ on twitter if all you want is to destroy the brand and replace it with a letter brand that's ungoogleable. But hey... what do I know.

zpeti 3y ago
> Nobody is asking for a "Wechat" in the west. It's not something I've ever seen anyone craving for. I mean, I agree this is Elon's dream. But so is SpaceX and Tesla which he did quite well on. Also - you're quote reminds of the oft cited henry ford quote: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
- ulfw 3y ago
  True true and yet... People do want faster horses. The model T had 20hp. Try to get a Ford nowadays with less than 10x that ;)
lesuorac 3y ago
Isn't it what people crave? Google didn't start adding the ability to do flights in the search engine because nobody was using that. People love one stop shopping.
- TRiG_Ireland 3y ago
  The only reason I'd ever use anything like that would be to send money to a person (not a business) in a non-SEPA country. And for that, I'd use PayPal. What's the business case for this X? How does it improve anything?
  - ulfw 3y ago
    There's plenty of ways to do that today already including ubiquitous SWIFT transfers almost any bank supports. Plus several startups and tech companies who offer similar services. One doesn't need twitter for that (nor crypto currencies, which was yesterday's 'money transfer to foreign lands' big promise)
- ulfw 3y ago
  I don't shop on twitter. Why would I shop on twitter? Honestly I can't follow the example at all. What does banking (one thing billionaire genius Musk wants to do on twitter) have to do with sending 140 character text posts? I don't see any kind of connection there at all. Meanwhile Flight Search is a type of Search. The name kind of gives it away.
  - lesuorac 3y ago
    Well how much do you use Twitter in general? It better to think of WeChat like an iPhone as opposed to Twitter. So rather than opening up the Amazon App you can navigate to JD's store on WeChat. Obviously if you don't use WeChat / Twitter then them gaining a app store-lite feature isn't useful to you but cross-selling is a successful practice. I'm sure JCPenny / etc would love if you could buy on Twitter though. Replace ad fees with just a simple %-age cut of the sale.

by ulfw 3y ago

zpeti 3y ago

> Nobody is asking for a "Wechat" in the west. It's not something I've ever seen anyone craving for. I mean, I agree this is Elon's dream. But so is SpaceX and Tesla which he did quite well on. Also - you're quote reminds of the oft cited henry ford quote: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

ulfw 3y ago
True true and yet... People do want faster horses. The model T had 20hp. Try to get a Ford nowadays with less than 10x that ;)

lesuorac 3y ago

Isn't it what people crave? Google didn't start adding the ability to do flights in the search engine because nobody was using that. People love one stop shopping.

TRiG_Ireland 3y ago
The only reason I'd ever use anything like that would be to send money to a person (not a business) in a non-SEPA country. And for that, I'd use PayPal. What's the business case for this X? How does it improve anything?
- ulfw 3y ago
  There's plenty of ways to do that today already including ubiquitous SWIFT transfers almost any bank supports. Plus several startups and tech companies who offer similar services. One doesn't need twitter for that (nor crypto currencies, which was yesterday's 'money transfer to foreign lands' big promise)
ulfw 3y ago
I don't shop on twitter. Why would I shop on twitter? Honestly I can't follow the example at all. What does banking (one thing billionaire genius Musk wants to do on twitter) have to do with sending 140 character text posts? I don't see any kind of connection there at all. Meanwhile Flight Search is a type of Search. The name kind of gives it away.
- lesuorac 3y ago
  Well how much do you use Twitter in general? It better to think of WeChat like an iPhone as opposed to Twitter. So rather than opening up the Amazon App you can navigate to JD's store on WeChat. Obviously if you don't use WeChat / Twitter then them gaining a app store-lite feature isn't useful to you but cross-selling is a successful practice. I'm sure JCPenny / etc would love if you could buy on Twitter though. Replace ad fees with just a simple %-age cut of the sale.