includes WeChat Moments, WeChat Pay
4 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 17, 2021 by Benedict Evans · said 23 times in 5 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Jan 17, 2021 negative
Evans: WeChat failed in India because headquarters neglected local product needs
“WeChat launches this business in India and the Indian team keeps saying, we need you to do X and Y and Z. But India is so much smaller and so much less a show of attention. They can never get anyone on the phone in China to make, because the Chinese market is …”
Jan 17, 2021 negative
Jan 17, 2021 negative
Evans: US text bot hype was fueled by false WeChat narratives
“And there was a moment three and four years ago when everyone in America was very excited about bots, text bots, and there was this whole narrative, well, that's how WeChat works, and WeChat's got hundreds of millions of users, so this must be a thing. It turn…”
Jan 17, 2021
Evans: Western super-apps will be focused bundles rather than WeChat clones
“It's not Facebook can turn the Facebook messenger into a universal account application that subsumes everything else on the store. It's yes, if you were to work out the right way of adding three things to Uber, that might work.”