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I still don't understand it. WeChat, the Chinese messaging app, is the definition of feature creep, and still "only" 290.1 MB. It not only includes messagin
by captainmuon 8y ago
I still don't understand it. WeChat, the Chinese messaging app, is the definition of feature creep, and still "only" 290.1 MB. It not only includes messaging and social network functions, but banking, shopping, taxi hailing, dating, and tons of other features. It's been compared to an OS of its own, you don't live in iOS or Android, you live in WeChat.
I think it is a combination of not caring - everybody working at FB has the newest phone and the fastest connections - and maybe not the best developers. Or maybe the developers are really top notch 10x developers that you would expect at a silicon valley megacorp, but they are incentivised wrong and have to push out new features as quickly as possible...
- jtokoph 8y agoAs far as I can tell with my limited use of WeChat while in China, most of the extra features are created by third parties and are hosted as third party web apps inside of a web browser. I could be wrong though.