Meta’s Past Experiences Cast Doubt on Musk’s ‘Everything App’ Plan
Here's the important things about Elon Musk's grand objective to transform X into an "whatever app", focused around payments at its core, which would then allow all sorts of transactional performance, and would in theory make it a better energy for billions of users.
While conceptually, executing a "Western variation of WeChat" makes theoretical sense, what Musk appears to be ignoring is that Meta has actually currently attempted this, from different angles. And it's never ever even come close to making this a considerable offering.
Meta's primary push on this front was the intro of Messenger Bots in 2016, which it viewed as a window to a brand-new world of shopping, payments, and more within the app.
And WeChat, the common Chinese messaging app, was particularly called by Meta as the mot...