Elon is always obsessed with WeChat’s model. (For those who don’t know about WeChat, it is basically the name of the ‘Everything app’.)

Everything in one single point is pretty convenient but has led to a bunch of risks…

Leave a risk that you know in the comment.

  • Leafy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    2 years ago

    Elon is right to understand that the data of a successful everything app (which can only happen by monopoly) will give him vast power in tech. However, after failing to implement one aspect of it in an established market and after removing most talent from Twitter, how will anyone keep falling for his techno-Ponzi scheme?

    • Wothe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Look how many people joined Threads? I guess still falling for his techno-Pozi scheme, plus there is no need for people to download an new app.

      • the_Coffin_Seller@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        While I don’t disagree, keep in mind that every instagram user already has a threads profile, even without access. As far as I know I do have a threads account but I’m from europe and last time I checked I cannot access threads.

  • Holyginz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 years ago

    Lol, dude can’t even run something like Twitter successfully, let alone an “everything” app. Not a chance in hell I would use it.

    • Wothe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I was wondering if he would hire someone from China who previously runs “everything” app like Wechat. People should definatly look for alternatives

  • crowsby@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    2 years ago

    Yeah, uhh we had that in the 1990s and it sucked:

    Why do one thing poorly when you can do a whole bunch of different things even worse.

    • Chariotwheel@kbin.social
      4·
      2 years ago

      Great track record of ensuring freedom of speech from Musk. If I have to pick my poison on who restricts my freedom of speech, it’s not this one.

  • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Convenience and marketing will always win at the end. We’re heading that way anyway. People use Apple Pay and Google pay and don’t think for a second what it means. Other forms of ID are going that way too. People want ecosystems without having to lift a finger. Just let big brother take care of everything.

    What, you want to talk privately? Use cash? What do you have to hide?

    • mikeyBoy14@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      On the other hand, Google/Apple Pay are both pretty great products that replace a horrendous legacy payments system. Recall that for like 40 years the most innovative consumer payment system looked like this. And it was essentially a duopoly as well (Visa/Mastercard).

      At the end of the day, cash is still a thing as well.

      • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Well, some countries indeed still commonly use payment systems from 50 years ago. That’s pretty bizarre. I remember hearing about PayPal 20 years ago, how revolutionary it is, and I didn’t quite get what the big deal is. That’s because all around Europe we had secure online payments (secure against theft and such, not against the bank snooping) since the late 90’s, and chipped cards even earlier.

        But anyway yea… In person, cash is king. Let’s keep it alive. Some countries are planning to phase out cash, and that really is only because we’re letting it happen due to our lazyness.

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    If an application has tracking and censorship software that is tied to a country’s government, then chances are I’m not gonna use that app, especially if China’s government is involved. This is why I hate WeChat.

    Besides, an “everything app” basically just defeats the purpose of having an app icon collection on your home screen. I like how colorful it looks, and I don’t want that to be taken away.

    We’re just getting further and further into dystopia at this point.

  • TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    I don’t trust Musk with anything, let alone everything.

    As soon as a company offers ‘ease of use’ for anything, it’ll try to get everything it can get their hands on and use it to their own advantage.

  • kryllic@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    He’s a decade late on that. I don’t see people wanting one app having that much of their information being constantly collected in the background. Then again, millions of people agreed to Threads’ data harvesting so…

    • Wothe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Most of the are celebrities, they make money from giving up their privacy right.

      • ohlaph@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I imagine most celebrities have primary accounts and people who manage them or at a minimum two phones for that reason so they are only giving up what they want

  • squiblet@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    It seems like what he wants to add is mainly real-world identity and payments. The US already has an ‘everything app’ that has that and social media, shopping, classifieds and payments - facebook.

      • squiblet@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        So is Twitter. Adding payments and a bunch of other random shit to make it into facebook isn’t going to help.

          • squiblet@kbin.social
            2·
            2 years ago

            Facebook is awful, of course. I haven’t signed into my account since 2019 and now I can’t without sending them my driver’s license, which clearly will never happen. Just because I stopped using FB and IG doesn’t mean everyone did, however.