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> The GFW has severely crippled the web, coupled with the lack of card usage, created a situation that made wechat work for mainland china and can't really be r
by owebmaster 9y ago
> The GFW has severely crippled the web, coupled with the lack of card usage, created a situation that made wechat work for mainland china and can't really be replicated anywhere else.
Until it can. This happens in tech regularly.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoWechat simply has never had to compete with worldwide services. We can say it beat Facebook and google, but that would be stupid because both of those are blocked and have been for a long time. The fact that Chinese internet services are spurned in China's own backyard is telling.
- owebmaster 9y agoFacebook & Google has never had to compete with worldwide services, too. Only US services.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoCompletely untrue.