4/12 Now from first principles. The operating system itself is the biggest all-in-one app there is. It holds countless single-purpose apps. Open your phone: the home screen spans several pages holding dozens of apps, and you reach the one you want in one or two taps. An app that wants to be all-in-one has only one small vertical phone screen, so it has to bury its features several levels deep. Users cannot tap straight to what they want the way they do on the home screen.
That is the paradox. The competitor of an all-in-one app is the operating system itself, and the operating system already satisfies the user. Why would they want a worse all-in-one on top of it? Stuffing Twitter, Telegram, TikTok, and Facebook into one app is as strange as a mini app on Farcaster trying to build another Farcaster inside itself.
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