But give it any serious thought whatsoever and it starts falling apart. If you’re just spitballing wild ideas, it’s easy to get enthralled by such an idea. (And investors in Tencent, WeChat’s Chinese-government-controlled parent company.) It doesn’t benefit users that WeChat dominates all aspects of digital life - it benefits the authoritarian Chinese Communist Party. In practice, the concept really only makes sense there. It’s no coincidence at all that WeChat is the only “everything app” anyone can cite, and it comes from China, an authoritarian regime. Her headline says it all: “ When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China”. Back in 2015, Connie Chan of Andreessen Horowitz wrote a great piece explaining WeChat’s expansive domain, and if anything, WeChat’s dominance inside China has only grown since then. In China, WeChat is the way to chat, the way to share photos, the way to pay for things with your phone, and a lot more. And while I agree it’s “hard to pull off”, I vehemently disagree that it’s “the right idea”.īen Thompson has written extensively about WeChat’s impossible-to-overstate dominant role in China. I don’t think I’d say the idea is common in China - just WeChat, specifically. X is the name of his first significant company back in the day. It’s the right idea but hard to pull off. and might include payments, subscriptions,Įntertainment etc. He is essentially talking about a “super app,” which is common inĬhina but not the U.S. (And kudos to the German Embassy for working “wet dream” into a fun post.)īuying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app. Good working name for Elon Musk’s “ everything app” if “X” doesn’t work out. Have a finely tuned sense of irony, but are also more creative Īnd so the Eierlegende Wollmilchsau is nowadays mostly used toĭescribe some unachievable ideal, proving that Germans not only It goes without saying that this creature does not exist. Is tasty to boot, it is an animal that only has good sides to it. TheĮierlegende Wollmilchsau produces all the daily necessities and (giving out milk) and pigs (can be turned into bacon). Qualities of chickens (laying eggs), sheep (producing wool), cows Is every farmer’s wet dream: the perfect farm animal, uniting the This little creature may sound like a bit of a freak of nature, it Week’s word of the week, the Eierlegende Wollmilchsau, whichĬould roughly be translated as “egg-laying wool-milk-sow”. The image you have in your head right now is this Picture this: a pig, covered in fluffy fur, that lays eggs and 2011 post from the German Embassy in Washington:
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