Superapps: There Can Be Only One
On this edition of The Quartz Obsession Podcast, Superapps: there can be only one.
Apple’s early App Store ads famously proclaimed, “There’s an app for that”—anything you wanted to do on your phone, the company insisted, you could do through an app.
But when smartphones came to China, there was just one app that really mattered—WeChat, the self-styled “superapp.”
In the latest episode of the Quartz Obsession podcast, host Scott Nover asks reporter Ananya Bhattacharya why Western tech companies are so fixated on building a superapp—or an “everything app,” as Elon Musk likes to say. And will they ever make it happen?
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