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When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China

a16z Podcast

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We Chat and the Off Line World

We chat uses all the other smart phone censors as sources of data. Uses g p s when users search for businesses near by. It calls upon the microphone to identify a t v show or song on the radio. And it uses blue tooth when users add friends in their vicinity. Take chinese toy company dandan man which created monm a blue tooth enabled stuffed animal toy that integrates we chat with the off line world....

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