Too Long; Didn't Read
Just four months after my experiment of <a href="https://medium.com/the-raabithole/i-deleted-every-app-from-my-phone-for-30-days-heres-what-happened-cd7ed7a85bd1" target="_blank">deleting every app from my phone</a> for 30 days, I’m disappointed to admit that I’m back up to 70 apps. Although this is still 66 fewer than when I originally deleted everything, it’s still too many. Frankly, I’m a bit envious of the <a href="https://a16z.com/2018/01/13/super-apps-china-product-innovation-wip/" target="_blank">Chinese “Super-Apps</a>” like <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-07/super-apps-asia-s-new-innovation-to-change-cities-economies" target="_blank">WeChat</a>, which aggregate messaging, ride-sharing, e-commerce, gaming, and more functions in one unified app. I don’t expect a U.S. version of the “super-app” to emerge anytime soon, as each of these functions serve as the focus of the most valuable U.S. tech companies (Facebook / Apple, Uber / Lyft, Amazon, etc.). But as Jim Barksdale, the former CEO of Netscape famously stated, “there are only two ways to make money in business: One is to <strong>bundle</strong>; the other is <strong>unbundle.</strong>”