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Cashless society, afraid by @Götterdämmerung, is simply unstoppable.
I don't care the big companies know my eating habits, I just don't want to bring any coins or notes.
If QQ is a supercharged Facebook, WeChat is something like WhatsApp on steroids
That explains why China's government was super-smart, ultra-visionary, and mega-pragmatic to protect home industries in their nascent periods.
If China's government were not smart, visionary, and pragmatic, we could not have spoken of a complete indigenous national internet ecosystem that is larger than the leaders of industrial and technological revolutions in some not too distant past.
Just put yourself in the shoes of a country in which FB, Twitter and What'sApp are the leading medias and imagine how much you would have suffered in terms of lost opportunities in the form of money, technology, employment, innovation...
Good point!
Many of our friends here are so proud that they get to use FB etc., as if this was a proof they were "Freer" than Chinese. When they realize their internet ecosystem is in the hands of foreign multinationals, it is already too late. Their IT industries have already been castrated for good, and they can never have a chance to catch up with China's QQ, WeChat, WeiBo, Tmall, Taobao, Baidu, etc. Maybe this is the price to pay for their "democracy"?
I only use voice message/video message/video phone/voice phone with closed friends and family.I am so darn lazy these days that I could hardly be bothered with sending texts in Wechat.
Instead I use Wechat mostly for voice message or video talk.
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I only use voice message/video message/video phone/voice phone with closed friends and family.
Too many similar apps are the problem.Here we still heavily rely on old fashion voice call and text. There are too many WeChat like apps, Whatsapp, Line, Snapchat..... and they don't talk to each other.