The Chinese tech giants probably have the most motivation and capability to develop their own independent third party app stores, moreso than Facebook or Amazon

The Chinese tech giants probably have the most motivation and capability to develop their own independent third party app stores, moreso than Facebook or Amazon imo. That said, I'm not sure if WeChat or Alibaba would be as interested as one would think- they've invested years and years of work into mini programs or lite app within their own apps themselves, building app stores would be undoing a lot of that work at worst, making it redundant as best. https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/alibaba-alipay-mini-programs-230m-users/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/alibaba-alipay-mini-progra...