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Ask HN: iOS landscape in China?
Hi, I am an iOS developer from the west. My apps are downloaded around the world except for one country: China. It seems that China is a quite a different world, with hundreds of chinese App Stores. It's true?, Any recommendation in order to tackle the Chinese market?
- meric 10y agoBe careful when handing off code to a Chinese team to internationalise - I heard a friend's friend got the work done, was able to serve the Chinese market, but those guys re-branded his app launched as a second alternative - so two of the exact same apps are serving China. That's all I got.
- marvel_boy 10y agoThanks, there are ways to deal with this, providing all the texts to translate to the translator team without the code of the app. Anyway thanks again.
- zhte415 10y agoEngineer your app to have a usage+ nice feature. That should be aligned to your WeChat/Alibaba
- rahimnathwani 10y agoWhat type of app do you have? Would it be usable by, and useful for, a Chinese person who reads/writes only in Chinese? The 'hundreds of chinese App Stores' issue is irrelevant for iOS. Jailbreaking and 3rd party iOS app stores are far less common than 5 years ago. As zhte415 said, you will need to re-think any social/sharing features to work with WeChat. Finally, make sure your app actually works in China. Some companies' servers are blocked by the GFW.