I will ask this again. Why is nobody here interested in building one app that does it all? Nobody wants to have 100 apps on their phones, or create 1000 online accounts. Such an app would easily make most tech companies obsolete. What part do people not understand?
WeChat's App Revolution
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Although they might be webpages, they may have access to extra APIs via WeChat integration (the webview can expose additional functionality, for example). I imagine, for example, that an app like Meitu (a popular facelift/beauty app in China) could recreate their filters in WeChat with the help of a photo-choosing extension API.
Thanks for your suggestion. I misunderstood the meaning of filter in the article. I was thinking about the realtime effect as in Mac's photo booth.
WebRTC
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#53I may be out of the loop on the newest app developments so please correct me if I'm wrong, but why haven't we seen these kind of all encompassing chat apps take off in the US/West? Has no one tried it yet or are Western users somehow hostile to these kind of apps?
It's kind of the iMessages App Store.
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#54WeChat's "App Revolution" is by no means a technical revolution, as several other commenters have pointed out. There's nothing new with embedding a web browser, nor with SSO, or integrated payments. The revolution is the fact that this is an app with an install base approaching one billion users (846M monthly active users as of Q3'16). Anything they do is potentially revolutionary by virtue of sheer scale. They are a…
My wife is Chinese but has lived in the UK since 2001 and is a British citizen. In the early days she talked about us moving to China some day, but now feels much more at home here. She absolutely loves WeChat and uses it all the time. She uses it to keep in touch with old friends in China and new Chinese friends in the UK. It also keeps her connected to contemporary Chinese culture. So even outside China, WhatsApp's…
I reckon you mean WeChat as well in your last sentence, not Whatsapp? Otherwise, please explain.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Privacy and China don't play hand in hand.
s/China/US/, still sounds equally right (or wrong) to me.
The US has maybe the potential for surveillance, although it is not clear if and how they act. China actively acts on gathered information to arrest dissidents for thought crimes and protesting its corrupt government. They may soon assign a "citizenship" score, which has little to do with participating in government.
Lets not get the two confused.
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#56Seems really similar to what Telegram has been trying to do for a while now. First with basic bots, then bots using custom keyboards and stickers, then with inline bots, and now with the game API (which basically allows you to package arbitrary HTML/JS/CSS into a bot message).
You are saying that the guy who cloned Facebook for Russian market (vk.com) is now building WeChat for Russia?
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#57I will ask this again. Why is nobody here interested in building one app that does it all? Nobody wants to have 100 apps on their phones, or create 1000 online accounts. Such an app would easily make most tech companies obsolete. What part do people not understand?
not sure if trolling or not... but good luck having your bank app developed by the same standards as the Facebook app protected by the same password.
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#58I will ask this again. Why is nobody here interested in building one app that does it all? Nobody wants to have 100 apps on their phones, or create 1000 online accounts. Such an app would easily make most tech companies obsolete. What part do people not understand?
Well, at least 2-3 years ago FB took the opposite direction by splitting FB app from messenger app.
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#59WeChat's "App Revolution" is by no means a technical revolution, as several other commenters have pointed out. There's nothing new with embedding a web browser, nor with SSO, or integrated payments. The revolution is the fact that this is an app with an install base approaching one billion users (846M monthly active users as of Q3'16). Anything they do is potentially revolutionary by virtue of sheer scale. They are a…
The situation is very similar in Korea with KakaoTalk. They have several apps within the messenger itself (e.g. even one that lets you book a hairdresser appointment) and currently still several outside (e.g. taxi hailing), but altogether they're in a similar position.
it's not similar, WeChat competition is blocked by Chinese government, kakao operates in free market
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#60WeChat's "App Revolution" is by no means a technical revolution, as several other commenters have pointed out. There's nothing new with embedding a web browser, nor with SSO, or integrated payments. The revolution is the fact that this is an app with an install base approaching one billion users (846M monthly active users as of Q3'16). Anything they do is potentially revolutionary by virtue of sheer scale. They are a…
My wife is Chinese but has lived in the UK since 2001 and is a British citizen. In the early days she talked about us moving to China some day, but now feels much more at home here. She absolutely loves WeChat and uses it all the time. She uses it to keep in touch with old friends in China and new Chinese friends in the UK. It also keeps her connected to contemporary Chinese culture. So even outside China, WhatsApp's…
well if she doesn't mind reporting everything to Chinese government in that piece of spyware (you can't even launch it with blocked location permission) and have censored speech with deleted inappropriate Moments posts and PRIVATE communication, then it's nice app i guess