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Honest question: Can you just use email?
by bgorman 6y ago
Honest question: Can you just use email?
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- filoleg 6y agoYeah, and if I ban you from using postal services, you can just rely on using pigeon carriers for mail. If what I said sounds ridiculous, that's exactly how your email proposition sounds to people who are used to WeChat. We can argue semantics and details, like "but it isn't the same, because this and that, etc.". But, at the end of the day, if email was even close to being as convenient as WeChat for the purposes that most people use WeChat for, people would've been using email already.
- castratikron 6y agoIt just seems strange that there's only one option available. In the US there are so many options that I find myself using an app just to talk to a specific friend, e.g. to talk to John, I'll use Twitter DMs, but I'll use Facebook to talk to Mike. Maybe this is a lesson to not consolidate literally every function of daily life into one superapp?
- codyb 6y agoI think a lot of the issues on that front stem from the Chinese side where the CCP has placed vast restrictions on internet and application use.
- jobigoud 6y agoAnd if for example Facebook messaging is banned you will then have to talk to Mike using Twitter DM which may be an big pain in the ass, maybe Mike isn't on Twitter or can't use it.
- filoleg 6y ago>Maybe this is a lesson to not consolidate literally every function of daily life into one superapp? Sure, the thing is, people in China didn't choose to consolidate it all in one app, their government made that choice for them. Your examples with Twitter and FB are perfect here, because both of those services are blocked in China.