At the annual shareholders Elon mentioned that he has a grand vision in this space. Twtr will gain 3 or more years.
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X App Discussion
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Platform will likely be modelled on WeChat which I have mentioned own this thread:
Future Tesla UI Integrations
Future Tesla UI Integrations
Xepa777
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Can we make this the non-negative Twitter thread? The other thread is so toxic and I just want to nerd out about the possibilities of payments, improved social functions, and integration with other Musk companies here.
I think a big problem to solve is micropayments so you can pay, say, 1 cent to read an article or watch a video instead of having a subscription to the particular site. Perhaps Twitter can facilitate something like that. Part of the Twitter sub is getting $N worth of credits that you can use for premium content. So instead of having to sign up for a bunch of things, Twitter serves as an aggregator. You pay Twitter and they pay the content providers.
UkNorthampton
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Further comment:
Firefox OS - Wikipedia is discontinued, I didn't know anything about it but found this from wikipedia interesting (bold italics is my emphasis). Further reading seems to suggest getting cost of phone down (to $25 in 2013-6) was a motivator for some supporters. So the relevance for X.com might be anything app, running on cheap hardware, everywhere. Identity might be X.com rather than Google (Android). Allows other form factors (glasses, watches). See if Elon comments on it
Comparison with Android
Firefox OS used the Linux kernel like Android does. Firefox OS used the Gecko engine on top of the Linux kernel to render the screen output. Apps were written using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript—all three being cooperative languages used in making internet webpages. In essence, apps on Firefox OS were web apps and the OS could be thought of as a Web browser that stored content off-line. On the other hand, Android's apps are coded in Java using Android Studio. Android also enjoys greater maturity and support. Despite these differences, Firefox OS did feature all the essentials required to use a smartphone.[74][75] Firefox launched its first official device in Germany in 2014, which was an Alcatel One Touch Fire. The device had a 3.5” HVGA screen, Cortex A5 processor, 256MB RAM, and 512MB storage. As of December 2015, Mozilla had launched 12 smartphones across 24 countries.[76]Criticisms
Chris Ziegler of the technology website The Verge wrote that Firefox OS would take app distribution to the pre-iPhone era, requiring application developers to deal with multiple carriers and their app stores.[77][78] At the Mobile World Congress, Mozilla's CEO Gary Kovacs said that Firefox OS has the advantage that users need not install an app to use it. Mozilla sought to make the most of this with the search functionality built into Firefox OS, a core feature of the platform.[79]Janne Lindqvist, a mobile security researcher at the Rutgers University WINLAB, expressed concern about the discovery mechanism of a Web-based platform, but a Mozilla spokesperson stated that Mozilla required developers to "package downloadable apps in a zip file that has been cryptographically signed by the store from which it originated, assuring that it has been reviewed." In addition, "apps coming back from search are given only limited access to device programming interfaces and applications, unless the user grants permission for further access."
All of our thoughts and the open discussions at Twitter by Elon present a much more limited view of X.com than Elon had back in ~1990's.
Things not discussed:
-investment banking- specifically the underwriting and distribution of securities. This could very well begin with suppliers to Musk-related companies, many of which may be relatively small private firms, others majors. All pay egregiously for investment banking services.
-brokerage plus widely varied deposit-like products. That was explicitly targeted by several of the Fintechs around the world. Even the most successful (e.g. Nubank, Tinkoff Credit Services [perhaps no longer, it was dominating Russian payment systems growth in the 2000-2010era] and others worldwide. For payments directly the original model was Mpesa.
This list goes on, but the shorthand is always 'payments' with consumer as the example. Describing the overall goals is to confuse things by imagining something like setting up a bank on Mars, i.e. understate the goals and focus on the achievable right now.
Things not discussed:
-investment banking- specifically the underwriting and distribution of securities. This could very well begin with suppliers to Musk-related companies, many of which may be relatively small private firms, others majors. All pay egregiously for investment banking services.
-brokerage plus widely varied deposit-like products. That was explicitly targeted by several of the Fintechs around the world. Even the most successful (e.g. Nubank, Tinkoff Credit Services [perhaps no longer, it was dominating Russian payment systems growth in the 2000-2010era] and others worldwide. For payments directly the original model was Mpesa.
This list goes on, but the shorthand is always 'payments' with consumer as the example. Describing the overall goals is to confuse things by imagining something like setting up a bank on Mars, i.e. understate the goals and focus on the achievable right now.
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