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yeah only wechat is allowed to have their own app store https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/07/wechat-mini-apps-200-million-users/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/07

• ghostpepper 7y ago
  Does wechat allow users to make payments to each other? I wonder if that's what this is really about.
  • infecto 7y ago
    Yes, I would say that wechats #2 purpose is mobile payments.
    • hanniabu 7y ago
      But in traditional payment forms, correct? Not via digital assets?
      • infecto 7y ago
        Local currency digitally but no not anything like bitcoin.
      • khc 7y ago
        You can buy ebooks on WeChat
• infecto 7y ago
  Lets be honest. Its the same for Alipay's app too. They both are their own ecosystem and they are going to be allowed without a doubt, if Apple was to touch either of these Apps it would be seen as an offense to the red flag and I could easily see the mainlanders boycotting it.
  • sdan 7y ago
    And could potentially leak into foreign politics.
• nexuist 7y ago
  This isn't entirely true. Kik had their own app store for years: https://dev.kik.com/#/home https://dev.kik.com/#/home It just wasn't very popular, it seems...
• echelon 7y ago
  Sounds like grounds for an antitrust case. You can point to special treatment of apps that risk Apple's position in foreign markets, where Apple is willing to bend its own rules to retain its market position. Coinbase: please sue these cash fat rent-seeking clowns.