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Re:On Growing: Lessons from the Story of WeChat by eratins on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:29PM (#14100418)
Is it really a "Western"-thing or more of a Silicon Valley thing?

I really think Google could have created the ultimate chat app... but I guess they are "creating their own competition."

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Re:On Growing: Lessons from the Story of WeChat by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:59PM (#14103791)
It's really a western thing. Chinese like crowded pages with lots of functionality, they must feel very 热闹!!! The west prefers more distribution of functionality with simplicity so doing one thing is much more appealing to us.
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Re:On Growing: Lessons from the Story of WeChat by eratins on Thursday April 13, 2017 @03:10PM (#14110024)
But when I was visiting Italy and Greece, I noticed the sites most people viewed were also very crowded and busy.
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Re:On Growing: Lessons from the Story of WeChat by seanmcdirmid on Thursday April 13, 2017 @11:20PM (#14112522)
Yes but not by choice. Besides, I've been to both Rome and Athens and didn't find either to be oarcicularly crowded compared to a Chinese tourist place.
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