Twitter adds video calling – and lets strangers ring you
www.independent.co.uk
Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up

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  • @jayboneEnglish
    2•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.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•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.