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Apple's sales plunged in China — these are the iPhone giant's 5 biggest problems right now (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

WeChat makes me think of X in the sense that the idea of an "eevrything" app that the charlatan Musk peddles has already been realised for quite a while in China. I think Kakao stuff in South Korea is similar in scope too but I am just guessing. For some reason Musk chose an extremely strange starting point for this project in Twitter. Now this X project is public facing in the smallest aspect but no idea where it will go from here. The x.com domain literally just does a 302 redirect to the equivalent twitter.com URL.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago

I recall Musk actually said in one interview that WeChat was the inspiration. I agree that Twitter seems like an odd starting point for this sort of app, and so far there's been no visible development towards this supposed goal.

As most things Musk does, I expect this will end up being mostly hot air. They'll probably bolt together a. Potemkin village of an app at some point and call it a day.

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Every charlatan CEO in the West wants to make Wechat but in America.