The US is behind the rest of the world in payments because we got credit cards first. The difference was in those other countries, the penetration wasn't there. So when they could actually build out the penetration, it was done with new assumptions that were learned from looking at the US and doing it a better way. And now we chat wallet is like step four, where it's all completely stored in your phone. But you have to consider the user experience, not just the narrow user interface.
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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