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Say goodbye to the name Twitter’s Bird. Elon Musk changing Twitter logo to ‘X’
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this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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He’s been playing up the idea of “the everything app” and X/x.com for decades. It’s actually what he wanted PayPal to be before they kicked him out. Theil is the one that refocused X.com and rebranded to make PayPal be what PayPal is today.
An app that does "everything" is like a restaurant that serves "everything." It's not going to do any single "thing" very well.
isn't a web browser an everything app
Yes, that is pretty much how WeChat works. It is mostly a glorified messenger and payment system (like current whatsapp), that they added a proprietary webbrowser with addons and storefronts on top (and wechat gets commission from said webpages and addons people access through them).
You could maybe get a similar experience in Android if you install Firefox, save a bunch of commercial websites as favorites, save another bunch of social media websites as favorites, add whatever addons there are (ublock origin for the win), and access stuff only through it.
Voilá, now you have an everything app.