Elon wants X to clone WeChat. It will be hard.
Elon wants X to clone WeChat. It will be hard.
Analysis of elon musk's strategy for X
Why clone it when he can buy it for 3x the market price and then destroy it?
40That's what he calls "building".
9Just the cost of making a 69 420 joke.
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Probably would’ve made sense not to kill his user base before trying to build a product that requires a large user base to be useful.
31That's just what a small mind would think. Of course business genius knows better. What better way to build a globally respected brand than to turn your platform into a far right cesspool.
8Would've been fine if he was doing that while riding high off of VC funding. You can try to pivot to new features that way. He's riding on bank debt that needs to be serviced, however. That means he needs to be both profitable and somehow develop a service that will capture market share. It's not going to happen.
3he'll force you to use the X app to hail a robo ride via subscription and manage your insurance risk modifier score and instruct your slavebots and throttle your electric VLF air conditioning and whatever
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but you can't see his business acumen without a business to grow see that's why he had to kill shitter first
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"Okay, step one: establish trust with users, developers, sellers and other tech companies.
"Shit."
21Cool, I won't use any product Elno is attached to - I think most of us have learned that lesson
15I don't know if that typo was deliberate but it's the funniest way I've ever seen his name spelled so I'm going to use it from here on out.
Based on how much I pissed his fans off by deliberately spelling it Telsa, I can only imagine they'll love this one
7Totally intentional, it's become natural to spell it that way ;-)
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Elon wants to make a super app in a market where nobody wants a super app. It will for sure go great!
14I'll never use it. So tired of hearing about Elon musk.
14WeChat is forced / very much encouraged by the Chinese government for.... reasons. No such entity will be doing the same for the dreaded X-app, so this is going to fail spectacularly.
12Are average people leaving Twitter/X? I know that lemmy and reddit users seem pretty over it but that might be an inaccurate sample pool.
7I know that a large number of brands and news organizations have reported that their Twitter engagement has completely disappeared, which tells us far more than Twitter's press releases ever would. It's dead.
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5Thank you for making me laugh with your last line. Good not-bot.
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hey i have that in my watch later
3i’ve never used WeChat, isn’t it just like every other messenger though? 
3It's pretty much the default social app in much of the southern hemisphere. Basically imagine Snapchat, Uber, your landlord's rent payment site, and a bunch of other things all in one app. It's crazy how much of the worlds population depends on it.
10I'm not sure what app you are thinking of, but WeChat is used in China (Northern hemisphere) and was backed by the Chinese government in order to be established.
There are 1.2 billion WeChat users, over 1 billion of them are in China.
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It has snapshot, venmo, Instagram, discord, Whatsapp whisper etc. I think it might also have tinder. It's pretty much all of the things rolled into one.
5It’s a bit of an everything app. You can use it for payments for example.
3Yes and no. It's backed by the Chinese government and pretty much mandatory for living in, working in China. For example, taxes are done with a WeChat mini-app, companies use only WeChat to communicate (email is rare now). During Covid, you could only get tested by using a WeChat mini-app to register, and no testing meant no life. You can't cross into or out of China without using a Wechat mini-app to generate a qr code that they scan at the border. etc etc.
It doesn't do ride-hailing. Didi does that. But WeChat does just about everything else. Oh, and all similar non-Chinese apps are blocked.
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2Am so happy world is waking up to what kind of a shithead Elon is. For the longest time it was annoying to see universal praise to a person who essentially knows nothing in depth but has read a wiki page here and there. To anyone in depth of any area of expertise he even marginally talked about knows just how clueless he is about pretty much everything. This wouldn't have been such an issue if he just sat on the management board and kept his mouth shut while raking in the money, but no. That's not possible for egomaniac of his caliber. If you ever need a good example just how out of his ass he's talking about just remember the interview with Neuralink panel. There were dozen or so people there, all PhD holders, some even multiple PhDs. People with knowledge, skill and expertise... and Musk was the only one talking what was possible with Neuralink while others rolled their eyes with every claim.
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