the tech industry has this obsession with building the "wechat of the west"
billions of dollars have been invested in creating new super apps over the years
yet we still don't have one. why? 🧵
what exactly is a super app?
there's no set framework to define it but the closest we have is this description:
"a super app is a closed ecosystem of many apps that people would use every day because they offer such a seamless, integrated, contextualized & efficient experience"
this was given by Mike Lazaridis, the founder of Research in Motion and originator of the super app concept, at the 2010 mobile world congress
he said that twitter on blackberry was a super app