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> Unless they can cater to the needs of customers operating under very different conditions, their remarkable progress may end at China's shores What kind of d
by cbcoutinho 9y ago
> Unless they can cater to the needs of customers operating under very different conditions, their remarkable progress may end at China's shores
What kind of double speak is this? At least some of the success of wechat, alibaba, et al is due to the fact that China is not operating in an open economy. International companies can't operate in China for reasons related to IP or information availability - and we're talking about how people outside China operate under different conditions?
Color me surprised
- mazerackham 9y agoHaha don't reach for Orwellian buzzwords so quickly =P. A lot of successful Chinese tech companies don't succeed just because competitors were banned. Even when Google was in China, Baidu catered specifically to local needs whereas Google just paratrooper dropped their product in. Baidu was more successful. As for Wechat, given how Facebook messenger has been shamelessly copying Wechat features for years, I highly doubt Wechat was at danger of losing marketshare to Facebook.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoBaidu won out because of porn, technically illegal in china. It used to be that almost every image search in baidu, no matter how innocent, would lead to a bunch of naked pictures. Google of course, not being a chinese company, would never have gotten away with that. Baidu is otherwise a horrible search engine for anything productivity related. That wechat would have won over Facebook is completely hypothetical given that they weren’t allowed to compete. Facebook, WhatsApp, and YouTube are dominating in china’s backyard, including newly opened internet markets like Cambodia and Myanmar.