Does literally anyone except startup founders want an everything app? Like a single person anywhere? Who are these for?
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Airbnb's CEO Brian Chesky is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an everything app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion?
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And I'm not even going to eat the Buffalo wings, so if anybody wants 3 Buffalo wings, they're yours for $7.99.
sounds like ketamine.
cocaine is too based for that crowd tbh
maybe he's got someone cooking him designer meth? is that a thing? it sounds like uppers to me but he *might* also be inhaling musk's farts and getting some of whatever that chucklefuck's using?
or maybe you're right. cocaine.
this is an unwholesome subject. i must disconnect from it.
Ketamine doesn't do that.
classic elon at the inauguration look
also a great way to stop your heart
The everything app is the operating system. You get to choose your providers by downloading apps.
Each app is capable of interacting with each other already on Android and iOS.
Folk want open ecosystems, not monopolistic apps.
Bezos will eat him alive if he tries to become the newer better (worse) Amazon.
I don’t buy anything from Amazon, either.
Which, I realise now, is the worst cop buddy show in history.
"It slices. It dices. It juliennes fries!"
But why not start another business then? You can just do that rather than gutting your core product
And I agree that another business is logical! But also logic seems to be the critical missing piece at that moment of mid life crisis
so i assume it has to be "fucking with the core product" as nothing else is as nostalgic
Though if they had any self reflection they’d realize NEEDING a pre-existing install base implies the value prop of an everything app isn’t enough on its own.
But then if they fail they'd be confronted with the fact that their idea is something less than brilliant
(I would be so much better at being a billionaire, someone just give me a chance)
It would do me so much less harm than any of the many everything apps.
Lenny Bruce
One app is all you need, no choice!
It has essentially zero interest from people other than these groups
Chrome is the everything app, but instead of solving every problem, it injects tracking and ads into every solution.
But because it’s free, it drops the value of the everything app to zero unless you use it to sell ads.
I’ve never thought “let’s shitpost while I access my bank.”
Just replace "everything" with "monopoly"
And that's what they're after. And the already mentioned provisions.
Airbnb wants to expand until it can read email 😆
An “everything app” is effectively that, but entirely under the control and moderation of the platform owner
[cries into my Evernote]
However, AirBnB is inifinitely more likely to succeed in this goal than X.
AirBnB doesn’t have the kind of reputation to pull it off, even if people somehow wanted that.
“GO OUTSIDE!”
until you wander off in a fugue state
How about just having extensible and secure modern APIs?
Why are tech bros just so innately dull
I can't just sit there and smile while they speak the bullshit though, I just can't 😭
Feedback loops are important.
We're sad to inform you that hackers have accessed your bank accounts, credit cards, home, car, lawyer, and girlfriend. As you are now broke, they decided to run away together. Good luck suing us without them.
Sincerely,
-The Everything App Team"
#NoThanks!
it makes them easier to delete
My theory: CEOs believe they can leverage users they've gotten through the funnel, because people would rather make AirBNB their bank than fill out new paperwork.
This will be a one-stop shop, unlike all the other everything apps!
It is just a money dance.
Look at TikTok
No, it's all monopoly play. Nobody wants every feature to be an afterthought.
Nowadays they're all inventing "solutions" first and desperately trying to sell you the problems.
One: When they look at the world they see it like The Matrix...just streams of dollar signs. Why stop at getting a cut of a few of the dollar signs when you can get a cut of ALL of them?
Two: They're convinced only their superior intelligence can solve problems the right way.
And that’s exactly the future both LLM and “everything app” hawkers seem to want to take away.
I think the techbro founder types are and have; obviously they have an event horizon where logic ceases.
It was a perfectly good system god dammit
The Unix principles ("do one thing and do it well") should be compulsory reading material.