Apple now allows X to be called X in the App Store
As we’ve noted before, Elon wants to make “X” a super-app like China’s WeChat which is used for instant messaging, mobile payments, and for social media posts. Also, Elon has had an obsession with the letter “X.” He named his first company X.com and it was later sold to PayPal. Walter Isaacson, who wrote the biography “Jobs” and is writing one about Musk, made a comment that helps us understand why Elon is naming his WeChat competitor “X.”
The author said, “His concept for X.com was grand. It would be a one-stop everything-store for all financial needs: banking, digital purchases, checking, credit cards, investments, and loans. Transactions would be handled instantly, with no waiting for payments to clear. His insight was that money is simply an entry into a database, and he wanted to devise a way that all transactions were securely recorded in real-time.”
Eventually, Musk bought the name back from PayPal and we should see a huge transformation in the platform formerly known as Twitter. It would be funny, if after all of the complaints and insults launched at Musk over his running of Twitter, he had the last laugh after all. Getting Apple to greenlight the “X” name in the App Store is just the first step.
