X adds video calling — and lets strangers ring you: Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up::Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up

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    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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      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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        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.

        I don’t think it’s designed by the state to be centralized, it’s just how things happened in a lot of Asia.