Mr. Musk has said he has “a fondness for the letter X.” X is how Mr. Musk publicly refers to his first child with Claire Boucher, the musician known as Grimes, but his history with the letter dates back to at least 1999, when he helped found X.com, an online bank. Continue reading the main story.
What is a super app?
A super app, or what Mr Musk refers to as an "everything app", has been described as the Swiss army knife of mobile apps, with a suite of services including messaging, social networking, peer-to-peer payments and e-commerce shopping.
Examples of Super Apps?
Chinese super app WeChat has more than 1 billion monthly users, according to one estimate.
Its users can hail a car or taxi, send money to friends and family or make payments at stores.
Why does Musk want to make a Super App?
Chinese super app WeChat has more than 1 billion monthly users, according to one estimate.
Its users can hail a car or taxi, send money to friends and family or make payments at stores.
Why Musk make a Super App?
Adding more tools and services to Twitter could also help the billionaire reach his lofty goal to expand the app's number of users from 237 million to "at least a billion".
Why Musk make a Super App?
Have other US tech companies tried to make a super app? Yes, Snapchat parent Snap made a peer-to-peer payments service called Snapcash, but scrapped it in 2018.
Why Musk make a Super App?
It also made a push into mobile gaming but cost-cutting put paid to that.