My Visit to WeChat and Why They Are Smarter Than Apple and Facebook (13)
The Tech Strategy Podcast
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We Chat Is Not Designed to Encourage Passive Consumption
Facebook was designed around this idea that we are all on the front end on the consumer facing end. The business model they adopted was surveillance capitalism which I think is a terrible business model paired with a mostly toxic addictive service at the front end. Mark Zuckerberg had this mess memo that went out where he said we're going to change course as a social network and we'll do privacy focused messaging and social networking. That was the goal of his memo in early 2019 but it looks like an exact copy of we chat.
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