WeChat makes it easy to effectively run your business without a high degree of sophistication around the technology. It's kind of crazy because we always think about ourselves as technologically advanced, but this disruption has come along in the shape of the mobile phone. WeChat won fair and square. I message works fine in China to be fair wine has been blocked.
Ben and James discuss how leverage shifts in a value chain, why WeChat is so powerful in China, and why that is a problem for Apple.
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Links
- Ben Thompson: Apple’s China Problem — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Messaging: Mobile’s Killer App — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Slack and the State of Technology at the End of 2015 — Stratechery
- Connie Chan: When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China — a16z
- Ben Thompson: Peak Google — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Beyond Disruption — Stratechery
- James Allworth: The Blessing of Failure — Medium
- Ben Thompson: The State of Consumer Technology at the End of 2014 — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Why Doesn’t Apple Enable Sustainable Businesses on the App Store? — Stratechery
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