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Re:Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers by ajross on Friday September 01, 2017 @06:24PM (#15152829)
I guess. There's no one app, but nothing that WeChat does is serving a market that didn't exist in the west first. It's a triumph of integration, not so much innovation.

So... sure. In some sense that makes it an exception that proves the rule. If China can be successful with WeChat where is its Tesla or Pfizer or Intel or Fujitsu or...

I mean, there are times where a single counterexample can disprove a point. I don't know that this is one of them.

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Re:Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers by Steko on Friday September 01, 2017 @07:19PM (#15153064)
> where is its Tesla or Pfizer or Intel or Fujitsu or

This is the same argument people made about Japanese companies 40 years ago and then Korean companies 20 years ago.

For the record:

http://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/IP.PAT.RESD/compa...

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Re:Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers by owebmaster on Friday September 01, 2017 @06:36PM (#15152880)
> It's a triumph of integration, not so much innovation.

So which system did they clone to become like this? Because if they are the first, I guess it is a lot of innovation.

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Re:Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers by ajross on Friday September 01, 2017 @06:46PM (#15152921)
Oh come on. I said it was good. It's just... not exactly the planar transistor or a CRISPR-CAS editing therapy, or even Android or iOS. It's a good company doing important but fundamentally simple stuff really well.
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Re:Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers by justicezyx on Friday September 01, 2017 @11:17PM (#15154035)
Wechat is more innovative than Android and iOS.
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