completely out of date article written purely based on 3rd class info/analysis. the mentioned competitions have been there since day one, if you just look at t

completely out of date article written purely based on 3rd class info/analysis. the mentioned competitions have been there since day one, if you just look at the second half of 2018, Bullet SMS and mtoilet tried to challenge WeChat, both were very well funded and their investors/founders are extremely well connected. yet both failed in months. the so called "wechat is not considered as cool by young users" was the exact same cheap excuse used by QQ supporters a couple of years ago, nothing new here whatsoever. Bullet SMS initially attracted huge number of users last year, its killer feature is its ability to convert received voice messages to text. In just about 6 months time, without any solid evidence/data to back the claim, the author of this article is suddenly trying to sell me the cheap story that some random apps are going to win the competition because they are "socializing by speaking, not texting"? Seriously? I really hope that articles that can appear on the front page of HN should at least has some solid info/analysis, random low quality article like the OP one is not doing anyone good.