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Is it really the power of WeChat or the chinese government though?
by lessname 3y ago
Is it really the power of WeChat or the chinese government though?
- afavour 3y agoIn this scenario it doesn’t really matter. They’re interchangeable.
- em-bee 3y agoit's wechat. you really need it in china. it's practically impossible to stay in touch with most people if you don't have it. a phone that can't run wechat is pretty useless.
- hackernewds 3y agothen they could simply just enable it in China and not in the US
- ospider 3y agoActually, it's both. Back in 2022, you have to install either WeChat or Alipay to scan the government's health code literally everywhere.
- em-bee 3y agohmm, i forgot about those. but i wonder if you really needed wechat and if it wasn't possible to scan them with the government provided app that tracks your healthcode too. i think offering wechat support was more out of convenience, and not to push people to use wechat.
- gehsty 3y agoThe app is obviously incredibly popular, but if it wasn’t back by the Chinese government I imagine apple would have enforced their App Store rules. I imagine some kind of deal along the lines of “no WeChat no iPhone in China” was done.
- em-bee 3y agoseriously, you underestimate the popularity of wechat. no deal is needed because it is easy to see that an iphone without wechat just would not sell!
- nextworddev 3y agoThey are basically the same
- ChrisRR 3y agoThey're the same thing