X, formerly known as Twitter, has yet to be restored in Brazil because the company sent its $5.24 million fine to the wrong financial institution. Brazil's Supreme Court made the revelation on Friday and will delay its decision on whether to restore X in the country. The beleaguered social media platform was shuttered in the
Keep in mind this is “X, the everything app”. Musk expects it to be your one stop on the internet for everything, including online banking.
Anyone who wants the internet to be like this… It’s hard to describe adequately.
The idea makes me as angry as I was when I was a kid and first heard about the destruction of the library of Alexandria. It is a deep dark rage.
With proper open protocols for communication with various services such a ‘everything’ app could become a thing at some point.
Where I live we already have a single app (owned for a large part by the govt) we can use to log in to most official services, and any decent-size service can apply to offer log in using it. Going from that concept it really isn’t too much of a stretch to an “everything app” becoming a thing.
Things being “a thing” are not the same as “acceptable outcomes occurring”
Yeah that will never, ever happen, especially if the app is successful. We would have to legally force them
“Why do one thing well when you can be bad at everything instead”
PayPal is already shitty enough at it is, we don’t need another crappy payment app.