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Re:WeChat and the Surveillance State by nomnomray on Saturday June 08, 2019 @03:42PM (#20134636)
I love wechat.

sticker: gifs and emojis all shares the same sticker format. It has natively features for taking, editing and converting photos and videos directly into stickers. Generally, i find memes work a lot better in wechat.

reliability: voice and video calling is buttery smooth. I've taken wechat calls internationally between china, taiwan, us, canada, australia and france. The service is always great even in some rural areas.

consistency: it works on almost all phones of all price ranges. Maybe it's because lower tier phones are of chinese brands and they have closer collaboration with wechat. The point is that wechat works the same on a $100 dollar phone as it does the iphone.

convenience: this one is domestic to china. wechat has mini programs, which are basically web services that make native app obsolete. For example, there is an wechat version of airBNB and it works exactly like the native app. Wechat handles all of the authentication and transaction. There is no need to register for anything!

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Re:WeChat and the Surveillance State by dang on Saturday June 08, 2019 @08:27PM (#20136144)
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Also, could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:WeChat and the Surveillance State by dang on Saturday June 08, 2019 @08:27PM (#20136147)
Personal attacks aren't ok on HN and we ban accounts that do that. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of the site to heart when posting here, we'd be grateful.