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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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      • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There are still like calculator apps and web browsers and such, “everything” is more like instead of Paypal/Venmo, you use WeChat. Instead of ApplePay, WeChat. Instead of Facebook, WeChat. Instead of Uber, WeChat. It’s just all that functionality smashed into one app.

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• cyd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also, everyone is locked into using credit cards.

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