Those of you who think WeChat is innovative for doing these things while other messaging companies like Facebook can't: WeChat can make these moves because the

Those of you who think WeChat is innovative for doing these things while other messaging companies like Facebook can't: WeChat can make these moves because they know they have their back covered by the government. Even if Apple wants to do anything about it, they know they need to play nice with the Chinese government, and overall it makes more sense for them to let WeChat do whatever just so that they can sell iPhones in China. Facebook can't do something like this easily. If Facebook went a bit too far to do something like this, Apple will definitely stop them. With WeChat it's not that simple. My point is, there are many reasons why something works or doesn't work, and many people tend to just see a single facet of the entire situation and decide. Like how these American VCs idolize WeChat and other Asian tech phenomenon and try to emulate them. "Who's the WeChat of America?" is the stupidest question to ask when trying to build an innovative company.