> South Korea was actually there for a time. If you wanted to spend money online, various regulations meant running ActiveX was a requirement. This playbook is

> South Korea was actually there for a time. If you wanted to spend money online, various regulations meant running ActiveX was a requirement. This playbook is happening again in China now. Not with ActiveX but with WeChat and AliPay. It's increasingly difficult to live there without either of the two apps and I think it does not bode well for the future for society to be reliant on two private corporation apps for basic needs, in the same way that it was not a good idea for the world to be dependent on ActiveX 20 years ago.