Wednesday 21 March 2018
China has long been perceived as a “nation of copycats,” where the shanzhai mentality reigned supreme, but, while pirating still goes on there, China has already moved on to the next phase of its development. The same has happened with WeChat. What started out as a Chinese copy of Whatsapp has evolved into something much bigger and far more powerful. WeChat started out as a very basic messaging app. Friends texting friends. That’s about it. Then it added phone calling and video calling capabilities. Then, it began to expand into areas that had previously not been associated with simple messaging…
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