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.
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.
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
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.
I 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.
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.
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.