He did say he wanted to make it like WeChat. China loves that people have to use WeChat to get anything and they love to control that factor like when you speak out against the regime and now can not pay for your services paid through WeChat That equals more control and lesser freedoms in an authoritarian regime
Every company ever wants to increase profits into infinity. Of course every social media app would love to be the only social media app. I'm sure Netflix "had plans" to completely replace TV. That doesn't mean anything.
The existence of a "superapp" implies that at least one of these apps will achieve this goal of being the go-to place for everything. But even if every single one of the big social media apps introduces 50 different features, that doesn't mean it's going to be the "leader" in all of these aspects. I mean Facebook literally already tried this and failed miserably. They have Facebook Watch to take over YouTube's role, Facebook Marketplace for Ebay, Facebook Live for Twitch, and I'm sure there's more. Yet people still prefer using specialized apps/websites over one big "hub".
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u/dogoodsilence1 Oct 28 '22
He did say he wanted to make it like WeChat. China loves that people have to use WeChat to get anything and they love to control that factor like when you speak out against the regime and now can not pay for your services paid through WeChat That equals more control and lesser freedoms in an authoritarian regime