Asian and African super apps are following the playbook WeChat originated

Re:Asian and African super apps are following the playbook W... by tanilama on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:21AM (#23311461)

> Android is already one abstraction layer on top of another, there is no intrinsic technological benefit of adding yet another one OS-like super app on top of it, or at the very least any such benefits remain to be demonstrated.

This has to be prove by market. If the OS-ish super apps are winning, means the customers are approving it.

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Re:Asian and African super apps are following the playbook W... by 4cao on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:27AM (#23312322)

> If the OS-ish super apps are winning, means the customers are approving it.

If people are not eating meat in North Korea, it doesn't necessarily mean they're supporting vegetarianism.

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Re:Asian and African super apps are following the playbook W... by tanilama on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @12:20PM (#23313038)

People are using Android, just not GMS.

It is funny, that GMS itself is yet another layer built upon Android.

How is it different that Tencent distributing this layer via WeChat, other than Google bundles this layer through GMS?

Tencent does have its counterpart of GMS, like piece by piece, but that approach isn't winning against WeChat either.

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Re:Asian and African super apps are following the playbook W... by echevil on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @12:30PM (#23313165)

The way WeChat distributes additional content is in the form of mini-apps, which has no similarly to GMS. It is something that does not exist in the ecosystem of US apps.

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