Analysis of elon musk’s strategy for X

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldM
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    11 months ago

    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.

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      11 months ago

      That’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.

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      11 months ago

      Would’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.

      • Num10ck@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        he’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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    11 months ago

    "Okay, step one: establish trust with users, developers, sellers and other tech companies.

    “Shit.”

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    11 months ago

    WeChat 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.

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    11 months ago

    Cool, I won’t use any product Elno is attached to - I think most of us have learned that lesson

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    11 months ago

    Elon wants to make a super app in a market where nobody wants a super app. It will for sure go great!

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    11 months ago

    Am 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.

    • imapuppetlookaway@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Yes 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.

    • Thoth19@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      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.