Twitter adds video calling – and lets strangers ring you
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Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up

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  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.eeEnglish
    56·
    1 year ago

    An explanation I’ve heard for why we don’t have “everything apps” in the US is because we all have an app store on our phones and that’s the niche the everything apps were really solving for.

    • golli@lemm.eeEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      That and i think we also adopted technology differently. Places like China or india in a way skipped most of the PC/Laptop phase and went straight to smartphones as their main device to access everything. On a PC/Laptop you’ll access most things through a browser, so many services already existed this way and also remain accessible through that.

      And even to this day many will prefer to do some things on a larger screen rather than a smartphone, even if by now it is the primary device.

    • akilouEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      How do you get the everything app in the first place if you don’t have an app store?

      • OldWoodFrame@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Comes pre-installed on the phone. I think it was possible to download apps from websites too, it was just not as convenient.

        • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          So is there like a single app on their Home Screen?

          They tap it and it opens an app with a bunch of other apps in it? Or a bunch of tabs, or other widgets you have to scroll around to find the functionality you want?

          I get why China would want this, for content control. But I don’t see why india or anywhere else would want this.

          • OldWoodFrame@lemm.eeEnglish
            7·
            1 year ago

            There are still like calculator apps and web browsers and such, “everything” is more like instead of Paypal/Venmo, you use WeChat. Instead of ApplePay, WeChat. Instead of Facebook, WeChat. Instead of Uber, WeChat. It’s just all that functionality smashed into one app.

            I don’t think it’s designed by the state to be centralized, it’s just how things happened in a lot of Asia.