China’s Internet Is Flowering. And It Might Be Our Future.

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China’s Internet Is Flowering.
And It Might Be Our Future.
Miniprograms enable you ‘to sell to any Chinese person that has WeChat, whi

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Chan could have created a regular mobile app, but the integration with WeChat Pay, the platform’s mobile payment service, made billing easy, and most important, customers were already there.
ALIPAY A mobile-payment app developed by Alibaba; the main competition in China to WeChat Pay. XIAOHONGSHU A social media and e-commerce platform that allows users and social media influencers to post product reviews and lifestyle content.
“In China, you answer to the level above you, and because there’s this huge push for tech, there’s a lot more incentive for officials to look at how they can integrate tech into their city or how they can integrate tech into public services.” As WeChat grew, it made more and more sense for various public health care, education and transportation services to piggyback on the platform, either as official accounts or miniprograms.
Instead of having to figure out which of the top 10 Android stores to publish to — Google’s exit from China in 2010 created an enormous vacuum that was filled by hundreds of different app stores, set up by phone manufacturers like Huawei and Xiaomi, carriers like China Mobile and tech giants like Baidu and Tencent — you can just publish to WeChat.
This is the cost that Chinese companies have always paid, but the WeChat internet arguably exacerbates it: By consolidating user activity that was previously divided among different online sites, or conducted offline, onto a single platform and onto miniprograms, they’ve made users even easier pickings.
They want to have third-party providers working in conjunction with merchants to develop miniprograms, mainly for Chinese consumers abroad.” He added, “We’re talking about the diaspora of millions of WeChat users outside of China, that’s their first angle

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