We already have an Everything App that allows you to execute all the different functions of your phone, it's called the operating system. The proposed app would just be a smaller, shittier OS with fewer functions and no choices. Elon is a failed Steve Jobs—which is depressing because Jobs was also a charlatan—who thinks "what if it was one thing" is actually the answer the all technology, because he doesn't understand technology as well as he thinks. Pro tip: carrying around 1 device instead of a cell phone, a pager, an mp3 player, and a PDA is helpful. Consolidating different functions that have no reason to interplay with each other into a big mess is not.

tl;dr it's shit from a butt

Yep. Musk is basing his idea about having an "everything app" on WeChat's success in China, which basically does what he's talking about. The problem is that he doesn't seem to understand that there are cultural differences at play between Chinese users and western users that prevent mass-adoption of a single app to do everything in the west, and that WeChat already exists and isn't popular in the west at all.

I agree. I think it must be a a bit more than a bit scary to use WeChat in China, not least for the privacy worry coupled with their social credit system.

We have way too many incompatible walled gardens already, so that information is only accessible if you pay for the license to access it. Of course, maybe he’s thinking about an open source, open access, interoperable, privacy secure kind of solution. Hahahaha, right.

He has like zero credibility ethically or technologically speaking. Who would anybody in the right mind go all in on some bullshit system he's pushing? Especially something so hypothetically pervasive in your life.

Only his nuthuggers and the weirdos who will never be able to quit Twitter would be on board.

So ... a browser?

What I don’t get is how he thinks this X idea is original or new. Welcome to the “we want ALL the users” club Elon

The last thing I want is to give Melon Husk access to my bank account

Can't read it, it's behind a paywall.

It's not that hard to use multiple apps. I'm sure most of us have dozens of them.

I agree. And Musk/X are moving towards a goal no one wants.