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
An “Everything App” is just an operating system.
An explanation I’ve heard for why we don’t have “everything apps” in the US is because we all have an app store on our phones and that’s the niche the everything apps were really solving for.
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. On a PC/Laptop you’ll access most things through a browser, so many services already existed this way and also remain accessible through that.
And 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.
How do you get the everything app in the first place if you don’t have an app store?
Comes pre-installed on the phone. I think it was possible to download apps from websites too, it was just not as convenient.
I’m going to go ahead and assume the one person on X that you can’t call is old Muck himself. Wonder why?
Then again, X is such a shit show and Elon is so incapable of thinking two steps ahead of his feet that maybe you can call him lol
My bet is he’d be too fucking arrogant and think people would genuinely call him out of admiration and he could create some viral moment showcasing how awesome he is.
The system means that all accounts are liable to receive calls from accounts you follow, or those run by people whose number you have in your address book. To be able to call someone, they must have sent at least one direct message to your account.
He’s probably left it on.
To be fair anyone can already call me with my phone number. Although it’s pretty anoying too.
This is a bit different. This is the equivalent of letting me call you right now because I know your username. I literally don’t need to know anything else about you, except for your activity on the site. That said I’m somewhat impressed. Impressed by how anyone would come up with something this stupid.
Why would anyone want this functionality?
I’m guessing this is so if Elon gets a negative reply to one of his tweets he can call that person up and threaten them or something?
I can already make video calls from Signal, which isn’t run by neofarcists.
(That was a typo, but it’s fitting.)
Stragglers of a dying platform get new bait and switch service. Expect fees once enought people use it.
This would be a good reason to delete my X account