That's a basic rule that can be applied to lots of things: If a company offers a lot of different products or one product that can do everything, usually none of those are really good. Typical example would be a restaurant that serves everything from pizza/pasta, asian cuisine/sushi to steak, burgers and so on
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"If a company offers a lot of different products or one product that can do everything, usually none of those are really good. "
I wish this applied to Google xD (Their search & web browser used to be good. Their cloud/photo storage and email services are still amazing.)
@Sina @Blaubarschmann Google is more like a restaurant that has a large chalk board covered with specials. The kind that has a soup of the day, and a fish of the day, and a chef's special.
There are a few core menu items that are perennials on its printed menu. Search, maps, photos, ads, Gmail, Google Docs, Chrome, Android, Chromebook, YouTube...
Then there's the messaging app of the day, the TV platform of the day, the flavour-of-the-month device selection...
And a bunch of items you really don't want to order even if they are technically on the menu.
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I can't wait until he starts up the video streaming section as x videos.
He's trying to make zombo.com, but with an X.
Welcome to Xombocom. This is Xombocom. You can do anything at Xombocom. Anything at all. The only limit is yourself!
/Anything is possible!
History repeats itself...at xombocom
Oh man...this is an absolute blast from the past!
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I think his ideal business model is WeChat, which is extensively used in China.
Unfortunately he hasn't factored in "Get literally everything else banned by the government".
....I mean that could explain his very alt-right bent...
Endorse a fascist into office then ban the rest (this is no more likely than any general conspiracy theory though. We'll have to wait and see if that's what his actions actually align with in this coming election season to give this theory any actual weight)
I switched to Mastodon yesterday.
I signed up for mastodon when he bought Twitter. The challenge is that I never actually used Twitter so I am lost on what to do with Mastadon. I repost and star posts that are fun but can’t figure out how to follow the conversation. Happy with Lemmy since it’s much easier to follow each conversation. Maybe I’m using Microblogging wrong.
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If by "the future" you mean 1997
That's funny because part of the reason Musk wanted to turn Twitter to X was because he's been squatting on the domain since the late 90s
Nah, he bought it from Paypal in 2017.
He founded X.com which became PayPal. No one buys a domain back 2 decades later for no reason, unless you're a manchild who's been having wet dreams about it and can't let that stupid name go
x.com merged with Paypal. He tried to hamstring Paypal, was removed, then x.com died as people preferred the Paypal brand.
I wonder if he knows about the game Xcom
I just hope he calls his video service xvideos
Hope he makes one just for watching hamsters, could call it xhamster...
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You forgot use it as a bank, hail transportation, order food.
Yes, his idea of the everything app was reportedly conceived in 1999.
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Meanwhile, TikTok has added text posts. For 1 billion monthly active users.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] for photos, Flickr also fits: it is owned by Yahoo since 2005
I get the sentiment, but Flickr hasn’t been owned by Yahoo for a while. They were purchased by the folks that run SmugMug.
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@ajsadauskas @technology He couldn't even be bothered to create an actual unique logo. Instead he used a public domain Unicode character. (U+1D54F). I hear the Xodus has begun and the bird site is slowly being Xpunged :) He couldn't even get the sign replaced without controversy.
@Lockpro @ajsadauskas @technology oh, it isn’t unique, but X.com has been in Elon’s head since 1993 when he worked for the Bank of Nova Scotia for a summer job assistant to the VP Strategic planning. It was’nt BNS’s plan, but Elon’s to put every banking function online. A few years later #Xcom was operating in SiValley, but Elon’s Board lost confidence in his grand design, and removed him as CEO. ../2
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Instead they focussed on payments only, which was the plan of a failing startup that merged with X.com a few months earlier - it was operating down the hall from X.coms small 2nd floor office. The name of that startup ended up replacing X.com’s — PayPal.
In 2003 PayPal was sold to EBay and Elon’s share of the sold company funded his investment in two new startups, Tesla, and SpaceX. His share after tax was USD $300M.
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@ajsadauskas @technology from Y to X, thats just a logical step
I mean... it's also a step back - which kinda fits the entire fiasco well
@ajsadauskas @technology Amazing that his vision for the future is just being a "dude with a website". Someone putting WordPress, PHPbb, TinyWebGallery, and Elgg on a expensive colocated server and simply branding all of them as his. Visit the xBlog, talk on xBoards, shoot some xPics and use X for social media.
Don't even need any vision or motto: "Whatever you do, do it on X, not some other lame and inferior place I don't run." It was a stupid plan then, and it's stupid now. Countless Web 2.0 dudes had the same plan, and it always fell apart when it became "only my friends are here. How the heck do I monetize this without looking like an ass?"
What makes it dangerous is involving other people's money; the banking crap is still his end goal. (Could care less about sub fees, that’s caveat emptor. But checking and savings accounts when something goes wrong ruins people’s lives.)
How the heck do I monetize this without looking like an ass?
On the flip side, Elon doesn't need to care about that anymore, does he?
This is what happens when you keep telling a person that all their ideas matter.
Has fond memories of the Yahoo Answers Etiquette section.
Maybe we'll finally get an answer to the age old question.
"How is babby formed?"
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What devs are going to make any of this "vision" happen? He let them go, and only kept the devs he can rule by fear. More to the point, IF Twitter tries to hire, who the fuck would answer that call to be ruled in an atmosphere of fear?
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Unrelated but I'm very impressed with how well this posted to Lemmy from Mastodon. Exceptional
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and probably spectacularly sucking at everything
No, no you misunderstand...
The holy grail for these big corps is to replicate wechat. It's the everything app for over a billion people. Can you imagine the level of control you could exert over a population with a tool like that? It's everyone's wet dream to have something like that for Europe and the US.
And I mean everyone, not just Twitter. Facebook wants to do it, Google wants to do it. People who have never seen it in action don't really get it, there is no analog to wechat in the west. It's a chat program? With PayPal in it? No. You can pay parking tickets in wechat. This is what they're trying to turn Twitter into.
Kinda like Yahoo! that is dead too
Musk's attitude is "It's mine, I can do whatever I please". In the long run a person's reply to this attitude is "Fair enough, keep it. I'll use something else". Like I and many others have.
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