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

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.

You nailed it, he wants to create OS X.

Sold on his very own special X boxes.

OS X already exists…it’s just renamed to macOS these days

I’m pretty sure that was the joke

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.

Also, everyone is locked into using credit cards.

The idea of an everything app (AKA Superapp) is that all of it’s features are interoperable. The OS doesn’t do anything except provide an environment for apps to run.

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

Only one way to find out

He might not consider it a necessary feature. I mean, not even his own kids want to talk to him.

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.

My bet is this isn’t really about people calling each other, but more about exTwitter having access to users’ microphones and cameras and is turned on by default.

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.

I remember years ago a high school friend of mine freaked out because her phone number and current address showed up in one of those free people search sites. I asked her “Are you listed in the phone book?” and she said “oh… yeah… I am”.

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?

Omg this might actually be a good reason to get back on twitter

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.

It already requires the monthly subscription to use.

This would be a good reason to delete my X account

This would be like the 18th good reason.

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