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Or the mobile messaging ecosystem in US will look a lot more like wechat in 3-5 years. China can be ahead in some areas.
by maxwin 11y ago
Or the mobile messaging ecosystem in US will look a lot more like wechat in 3-5 years. China can be ahead in some areas.
- GauntletWizard 11y agoIf china is ahead in this, then humanity might as well pack it in. China's sandbox model works well when you've got a few hundred million uneducated peasants, but an educated populous (Which china is having more success stopping than I care to admit) wants diversity; It wants options, differing opinions, choices that cater to them, not to what people want to offer them.
- nc 11y agoIt's a platform, it could certainly evolve to cater for different options.
- simonh 11y agoChina has an educated urban population about equivalent in size to the entire population of the US, and they're all using WeChat. My wife is a Nurse, has a 2:1 degree and although born in China has lived and worked in the UK since 2000 and she uses WeChat all the time, as do our kids. Educated non-techies don't want diversity, they want functionality and community.
- davedx 11y agoYup. My English sister has been using it because she gets better quality voice than Skype. Maybe Wechat is winning because it's the better product.
- svachalek 11y agoPlease spellcheck "educated populous" before claiming another country doesn't have one.
- tarikjn 11y agoMore likely that the US is ahead. The GFW heavily props local companies. Chinese internet companies are much less market-tested than US companies.
- mooreds 11y agoPlease let us know how the bet turns out.