I think that the concept of super apps will look differently in the US. Due to the existing competition they will not include all the different services, but instead will try to cover a range of related services in their main area of expertise.
Good point. Yes, I can foresee Uber covering a variety of delivery services and financial services to pay for them. Amazon covering all the types of e-Commerce. And couple of companies covering all the type of content. And indeed it will be difficult for them to converge into 2-3 apps that will cover it all.
Not sure of super apps will emerge eventually in the US, but even if they will - Twitter is not well positioned to take one of the spots. If you look at their current product it only includes a subset of social media functionalities (short text). Even if Elon Musk will enable new modes like images, video, it will still only be the social media domain. Usually super apps include financial services which then used to pay for all the different additional services like shopping, content, travel etc. None of this is present at the moment at Twitter and developing it will required way too much resources.
Good point. Agree that Twitter for now is quite far from their vision. And development of different components is very hard. Unless they will cover some of the required capabilities with partnerships, it will require a lot of resources. On the opposite side, Elon is famous for managing to achieve what people do not think is possible. So if he is serious about the vision to get the everything app, Twitter could be a good contender in the race)
I think that the concept of super apps will look differently in the US. Due to the existing competition they will not include all the different services, but instead will try to cover a range of related services in their main area of expertise.
Good point. Yes, I can foresee Uber covering a variety of delivery services and financial services to pay for them. Amazon covering all the types of e-Commerce. And couple of companies covering all the type of content. And indeed it will be difficult for them to converge into 2-3 apps that will cover it all.
Not sure of super apps will emerge eventually in the US, but even if they will - Twitter is not well positioned to take one of the spots. If you look at their current product it only includes a subset of social media functionalities (short text). Even if Elon Musk will enable new modes like images, video, it will still only be the social media domain. Usually super apps include financial services which then used to pay for all the different additional services like shopping, content, travel etc. None of this is present at the moment at Twitter and developing it will required way too much resources.
Good point. Agree that Twitter for now is quite far from their vision. And development of different components is very hard. Unless they will cover some of the required capabilities with partnerships, it will require a lot of resources. On the opposite side, Elon is famous for managing to achieve what people do not think is possible. So if he is serious about the vision to get the everything app, Twitter could be a good contender in the race)