WeChat, every mention

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▶ 3:04 Benedict Evans Well, if it's just a chatbot inside Messenger or WeChat or something, then you don't have to get people to go to the App Store.
▶ 4:12 Benedict Evans I felt like it's almost like we've been talking about when is Facebook going to copy WeChat for so long that it's like it's finally happened. 3 times in the scene
▶ 33:22 Benedict Evans So I think there's another, there's another strand here to talk about maybe, which is that WeChat has achieved the point that its success is circular, that you have to be on WeChat because everyone's on WeChat. 2 times in the scene

▶ 21:47 Benedict Evans Kind of conversation for another day, then you look at what's happening on handsets, and it's like, okay, Facebook trying to move the disaggregate, Facebook trying to do what WeChat, and to some extent Baidu have moved in China, which has…

▶ 4:53 Benedict Evans So you have WeChat, who basically built a messaging app that is a runtime. 2 times in the scene

▶ 1:49 Benedict Evans One of them was building platforms, which is what WeChat most obviously has done and a few other people has done as well.
▶ 3:52 Benedict Evans And so, what you saw first with WeChat, and then with, you know, Kick attempted to do this in the West as well, is you actually can build little apps inside 2 times in the scene
▶ 20:17 Benedict Evans You certainly couldn't do what WeChat's doing, which is actually sharing, you know, having 2 times in the scene

▶ 5:09 Benedict Evans Um, but most obviously WeChat and Line in East Asia seems quite likely that Facebook's going to try and do that as well.
▶ 25:19 Benedict Evans Does Apple, is Apple looking at WeChat and thinking, hmm, that's interesting.

▶ 13:53 Benedict Evans And then when you go to, you know, when you go to China, then you have WeChat and Baidu maps and all sorts of other things, which you're providing again, these new kind of, these new kind of sites of aggregation and discovery and, and,…

▶ 26:40 Benedict Evans Um, and then you've got WeChat bundling everything up into an app again. 2 times in the scene

▶ 24:18 Benedict Evans You see companies like Line and WeChat in particular being very aggressive in trying to turn their messaging systems into, um, social platforms, application platforms, engagement and identity platforms, um, on top of a smartphone also and…

▶ 19:45 Benedict Evans 2014, at least eight hundred billion photographs were shared on social networks across Facebook, Snapchat, um, WeChat, and the other major networks.

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