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> The day that Apple removes Wechat from appstore is the day they sell their last iPhone in China. You can't live in China without it, simple as that. It essent
by _hzw 6y ago
> The day that Apple removes Wechat from appstore is the day they sell their last iPhone in China. You can't live in China without it, simple as that. It essentially replaces phone numbers.
No. I will just buy iPhones for my parents and start using iMessage. I simply cannot wait to see WeChat got banned in Europe. Disclaimer: a Chinese living in Germany.
- Aperocky 6y agoAnd your parent doesn't need to communicate to anybody else in China..
- _hzw 6y agoThey are Android users now, nothing stops them continue using WeChat on Android to communicate with other Android users. They just have a (better) way to communicate with their son without WeChat.
- YarickR2 6y agoNothing is stopping you now from doing this without WeChat being banned
- _hzw 6y agoYou are right. But it's just too much trouble to force the olds to change anything if you don't have a good enough reason. It's very difficult to say something like this and has an effect: "Mom and Dad, there's much cooler and securer chat app out there, let's try it out." They will just say WeChat is good enough and they don't care about privacy because they don't anything to hide. But it'd be much easier to ask them like this: "Mom and Dad, those asshole Americans and Europeans and Australians banned WeChat and I can't reach out to you anymore, can we please switch to that much cooler and securer chat app?" This will likely work. But to friends I am not so nice. I force them to communicate with me either through iMessage or email (or Telegram, but it's banned in China). Some friends switch to iPhone and we still keep in touch (but probably not solely because of me), and others didn't and we lose touch ever since. It's just a choice we all have to make at some point.