I saw something the other day about how he views everything as if he had just read the Cliffs Notes version. I don’t like that analogy because had he actually read the Cliffs Notes on the stuff he talks about, he’d understand why he gets mocked when he talks about free speech or social media or advertising, because it seems like he doesn’t understand those concepts.
The same applies to the everything app. He wants Twitter to be like the social media apps in Asia where people can do shopping, emailing, watching videos, listening to music, texting, banking, web browsing, etc. all through just one app, and yet he still doesn’t understand why those apps are the way they are in Asia and why they are widely used, and why they never caught on here. In a lot of cases, the everything apps are popular because of limitations we don’t necessarily have here (bandwidth, data allowances, storage, computing power of the device, connectivity, etc.) .
Yes, the “theres an app for that” culture is annoying as hell, but most of us find core apps (banking, email, web browsing, messaging, etc,) that we are happy with, and that may differ from everybody else, and because we can switch so easily between apps, it’s not much of an issue.