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The people nearby and friend invite requirements being in problem in India but not in China can be explained by: > QQ messenger – already had over 750 million
by vorg 8y ago
The people nearby and friend invite requirements being in problem in India but not in China can be explained by:
> QQ messenger – already had over 750 million monthly active users by the time WeChat launched. A user could port her entire QQ social graph to WeChat by just logging in with her QQ ID.
It sounds like WeChat is really just a renamed QQ of sorts. So any adoption comparison of messenging app uptake in other countries with that of WeChat in China should use the QQ launch of 1999, which makes WeChat's rise to ubiquity far less impressive.
- steve19 8y agoIt's impressive that QQ managed to pivot. MS Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and AIM all have baked in social networks and failed to pivot.
- dangrover 8y agoMore impressive is that, while this was going on, the original QQ quickly pivoted the actual mobile version of QQ in competition with WeChat. Mobile QQ had more users than WeChat until 2015, and even today, there remain parts of the country + user segments that strongly prefer QQ on mobile.