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bogdugg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You nailed it, he wants to create OS X.

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  • Patch@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sold on his very own special X boxes.

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  • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    OS X already exists…it’s just renamed to macOS these days

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• OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The explanation for why we don’t have “everything apps” in the US is because we all have an app store, and that’s the niche the everything apps were really solving for.

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  • golli@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That and i think we also adopted technology differently. Places like China or india in a way skipped most of the PC/Laptop phase and went straight to smartphones as their main device to access everything.

    And on a PC/Laptop you’ll access most things through a browser. And i think even to this day many will prefer to do some things on a larger screen rather than a smartphone, even if by now it is the primary device.

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  • akilou@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How do you get the everything app in the first place if you don’t have an app store?

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    • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Comes pre-installed on the phone. I think it was possible to download apps from websites too, it was just not as convenient.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So is there like a single app on their Home Screen?

        They tap it and it opens an app with a bunch of other apps in it? Or a bunch of tabs, or other widgets you have to scroll around to find the functionality you want?

        I get why China would want this, for content control. But I don’t see why india or anywhere else would want this.

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  • cyd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also, everyone is locked into using credit cards.

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The idea of an everything app (AKA Superapp) is that all of it’s features are interoperable. The OS doesn’t do anything except provide an environment for apps to run.

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