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I totally understand your point, but Musk said this was the end game when he bought twitter. He wants x.com to be a single monolith “everything” app, just like
by hedora 2y ago
I totally understand your point, but Musk said this was the end game when he bought twitter.
He wants x.com to be a single monolith “everything” app, just like they have in China.
The idea is to control currency, authentication, identity, reputation, commerce and communication, and to make use of it mandatory.
- steele 2y agoAnd funnel inauthentic adoration in the general direction of divorced dad billionaires
- aliasxneo 2y agoWhich quote was that? Not finding anything, but then again I'm not sure exactly how to phrase the search.
- inopinatus 2y agomultiple sources given at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/twitter-ap-elon-musk-meta-grimes-b2203528.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/twitter-ap-elon-musk-meta... also the whole "kitchen sink" image was probably a crude attempt at reinforcement
- aliasxneo 2y ago> and to make use of it mandatory That was really the part I was most curious about. As the article points out, a lot of big tech has been trying to make their app economy "indispensable" to consumers, but competition seems to have thwarted that mostly. If Elon is saying he'll make it mandatory by other means, then I'm really curious to hear what he is saying on the subject.
- philistine 2y agoThwarted?? Can you run a business if you're not on Google Maps?
- aliasxneo 2y agoI think you missed the context. Thwarted in the sense that none of them have the necessity and reach of WeChat.
- philistine 2y agoThen can you run a business without Visa?
- aliasxneo 2y agoI feel like you're being a bit disingenuous. The article stated that market competition has mostly thwarted the attempts of any single big tech company reaching the levels that WeChat has in China. If you're proposing Visa has done that (across all categories, not just financial), I'd be curious to hear your proposal. To answer your question, though, Visa doesn't process payments for the dozen or so cannabis shops in my town and they are all thriving. I'm not saying it's common, or easy, but the answer is yes.
- philistine 2y agoWell you've disproven my point. Good work.
- TheNewsIsHere 2y agoYou absolutely can if you don’t have locations that are open to customers. What I hear from the marketing folks I work with is that these days it’s less about Google and more “if you’re not advertising on Facebook, you’re not advertising.” (US centric perspective.)
- DemocracyFTW2 2y agoIt wasn't a kitchen sink that he carried tho it was a bathroom sink... ah well he wouldn't know the difference...
- FrequentLurker 2y agoImagine being forced to use X. That sounds horrible.
- Sammi 2y agoMusk isn't satisfied with being an oligarch. He wants to be a dictator.
- 93po 2y ago[flagged]
- thiht 2y agoWhy are you making fun of this when this is quite literally what's happening? Maybe not the puppies and flowers thing, but you could have added the "taking money away from child cancer research" and that one would have been true. Musk IS a real life cartoon villain.
- 93po 2y agoi heard he said something mean about my grandma, too