Comment on WhatsApp continues working on Instagram integration behind closed doors

• TurboDiesel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’ll never catch on in the US, though. We don’t need the functionality that an “everything app” like WeChat would provide. WeChat took off because it filled in a big gap for its users. The US already has a robust and diversified financial market and payments infrastructure that Elmo won’t have any chance of breaking into.

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  • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Still, becoming the US “WeChat” is a very wet dream for any corporation. Of course they will try.

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  • demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The US already has a robust and diversified financial market and payments infrastructure

    I heard that you folks up north still send written cheques via mail and sign little papers when use a credit card, doesn’t sound very robust or diversified to me

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    • TurboDiesel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Valid, but our credit card and mobile payment penetration is way higher than China’s was at the time WeChat launched, and bank relationships are notoriously sticky.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    WeChat took off because it filled in a big gap for its users.

    No it took off because the CCP banned everything else

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