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Re:Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers by seanmcdirmid on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:52PM (#15153743)
People outside of mainland china (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) still prefer separate apps, and WeChat has been unable to acquire any significant marketshare outside of mainland Chinese users. Heck, even newly opened Myanmar is already dominated by google and Facebook.

The GFW has severely crippled the web, coupled with the lack of card usage, created a situation that made wechat work for mainland china and can't really be replicated anywhere else.

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Re:Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers by owebmaster on Saturday September 02, 2017 @09:50AM (#15155952)
> The GFW has severely crippled the web, coupled with the lack of card usage, created a situation that made wechat work for mainland china and can't really be replicated anywhere else.

Until it can. This happens in tech regularly.

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Re:Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers by seanmcdirmid on Saturday September 02, 2017 @03:16PM (#15157709)
Wechat simply has never had to compete with worldwide services. We can say it beat Facebook and google, but that would be stupid because both of those are blocked and have been for a long time. The fact that Chinese internet services are spurned in China's own backyard is telling.
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Re:Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers by owebmaster on Saturday September 02, 2017 @03:23PM (#15157745)
Facebook & Google has never had to compete with worldwide services, too. Only US services.
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Re:Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers by seanmcdirmid on Sunday September 03, 2017 @04:28AM (#15160310)
Completely untrue.
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