Super Apps Are Terrible for People—and Great for Companies

Bebo@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@beehaw.org – 166 points –
Super Apps Are Terrible for People—and Great for Companies
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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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Emacs does it all and is actually pretty nice though.

Emacs is more like a runtime for many smaller programs doing all these things, with common way for them to talk to each other. It's closer to Java than to Facebook.