With new mini-apps, WeChat seeks even more China clicks | Reuters
In a cluster of refurbished Mao-era industrial buildings in Guangzhou, developers at China’s top messaging app, WeChat, are redesigning key parts of its product to spread its tentacles to just about every aspect of Chinese life.Around 1,500 developers, mainly twentysomething males, have been tasked with increasing user engagement through new ‘mini-programs’ on WeChat that look and operate much like apps on Apple Inc’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems – but are far less data-intensive.WeChat, owned by Tencent Holdings, says it’s not a direct challenge to the dominant mobile platforms, but some analysts and developers say the new business could eat into that of iOS and Android app ecosystems.”In the long-term, the relationship between Tencent and Apple’s ecosystems will be co-existence and ‘co-opetition’ – intense competition in some areas and time periods, coupled with some form of cooperation in others,” said Su Ning, professor of Information Systems at Ivey Business School in Canada.
Källa: With new mini-apps, WeChat seeks even more China clicks | Reuters
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