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There are similar "everything" brands that are very successful in other countries, notably WeChat which is chat, text, photo sharing, gaming and mobile payments
by zdragnar 3y ago
There are similar "everything" brands that are very successful in other countries, notably WeChat which is chat, text, photo sharing, gaming and mobile payments.
If X became the first in America it would be quite powerful, but IMHO is very unlikely.
- ben_w 3y agoI thought facebook already had all of those?
- alephnerd 3y agoYou're forgetting the biggest ones - Google and Microsoft
- ben_w 3y agoI didn't even know MS had photo sharing or mobile payments. Google kills and relaunches products so often that I'm genuinely surprised Google Photos still exists and that my old data from when I had a Nexus 5 is still there, but I guess that's fair, I did forget them.
- alephnerd 3y agoGoogle platforms like Google Pay, Google Photos, etc are very common across the developing world (India, Indonesia, Brazil, etc). Microsoft doesn't have mobile payments but they do provide photo sharing via OneDrive. FB/Whatsapp ofc is a massive one, and is the goto everything app globally outside of China and North America. Most of these platforms are targeting developing countries now because any growth in market share that could be extracted in the west has been extracted. This is why most ads made by Google, Meta, MS, etc tend to target the Indian, ASEAN, or Brazil markets now, and a lot of investment in localization is happening (eg. Meta/FB/Whatsapp partners with local telcos to install it's apps by default and integrate with telco platforms, Google has constantly massive ad campaigns in India, etc)
- fmobus 3y agoWeChat does a lot more. You basically can't function in China without it
- trollied 3y agoApple are closer to that than X in the USA.
- kibwen 3y agoWe have those in the US, they're called "Android" and "iOS", not to mention every other OS and/or app platform, including the web itself.