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Super Apps Are Terrible for People—and Great for Companies (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apps that offer to "do it all" will subject users to even more exploitation and surveillance, while large tech companies profit.

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[–] wutBEE 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We’ve always had super apps that can run a number of 3rd party plugins, they’re called operating systems. /s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Come to think of it, the Apple Ecosystem and Google Ecosystem are somewhat established super apps. But probably the major difference is that they have to play well with their competitors to an extent. iMessage within itself has a third party app ecosystem.