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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...

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why even have an OS for the everything app? What if we made the app itself into an OS?

Also: Does an everything app contain itself?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Predication jokes, gives me hope

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd argue that Windows from Win98 - XP was trying to be an "everything app"

This was highly unethical and didn't work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly I was probably exaggerating a little.

But I was going to talk about stuff like the heavy integration of Internet Explorer into those versions of Windows and the bundling of apps like Outlook Express and Windows Messenger. They were accused by the US government of illegally maintaining a monopoly on PC software through this, and some software that is bundled in most countries still isn't in the European Union or South Korea.

Still, I do think MS wanted to cause vendor lock in which is a similar issue to why an "everything app" gaining popularity would be an issue.