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There already exist WeChat equivalents in the West that do "news, media, social media, payments, ordering in restaurants, shopping, messaging", and in fact they
by kibwen 4y ago
There already exist WeChat equivalents in the West that do "news, media, social media, payments, ordering in restaurants, shopping, messaging", and in fact they even predate WeChat. They're known as Android and iOS.
- user_named 4y agoNo, they're called browsers.
- duskwuff 4y agoOr, if you're thinking of more of a walled garden, Facebook is damned close.
- andyjda 4y agodon't smartphones in China mostly run Android? Seems like a weird thing to compare OSs with apps
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoIf uses the point is, if you ask a typical WeChat user to describe what it is, you'll get a similar answer to the android equivalent. From a user point of view, they're comparable.