How do you get the everything app in the first place if you don’t have an app store?
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.
akilou@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Comes pre-installed on the phone. I think it was possible to download apps from websites too, it was just not as convenient.
jaybone@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 8 months 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.
cyd@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Also, everyone is locked into using credit cards.
golli@lemm.ee 8 months 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.