How China Is Changing Your Internet | The New York Times
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- In China, a sheltered internet has given rise to a new breed of app, and American companies are taking notice. What was once known as the land of cheap rip-offs may now offer a glimpse at the future.
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Legend says that The man with the big vacuum still is on the app
It's like the Hotel California
Chinese government is evil to the people too!
Im dead
Yeah
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yea, like Google doesn't know which restaurant I went , which airplane ticket I purchased, what website I visited and what porn I watched AT ALL.
But Google do it to protect you whereas whatever the Chinese come out with will blow the Earth one day, this really a big screw up click bait clip.
Yea but GOOGLE is AMERICAN!!! America = best 4 evs b/c LOVE
HA, protect, a word that google would like to hear from you.
Actually, what the USA is commonly called varies greatly from one continent to the next, even between countries. the fact of the matter is, there is no standardized name for the country I live in.
...you're not all that smart, are you?
Yup, I live in China and use Wechat for everything
Wtf are u doing here
He still can order the man with the vaccum from here.
Sheep,,
How? You’re walled off, unless you’re one off those spies managing information of how China is seen for PR.
VPN
Wouldn't that be classified as a monopoly in the United States?
Yeah it probably would. We all know that the US government hates monopolies as much as they hate free healthcare.
@@adithyay328 google is monopolizing the internet
No, because there are other apps doing the same thing. Wechat is just a platform for the HTML applications so it is more like a browser.
Not exactly. Think of Amazon. A monopoly is not having many businesses in many markets. It is having all the share in a specific market. Maybe Wechat pay is competing with other pay platforms, Wechat chat competing with other chat platforms, Wechat hailing rides is competing with other ride hailing platforms etc etc...
lmfao as if Americans don't basically only use google
I live and work in China. Wechat (weixin) does do a lot of amazing things. However, people do not use Wechat for everything. Instead most people here use a variety of apps to get things done. That is because those other niche apps outperform Wechat. For example, people do not usually use Wechat to meet people or to find a restaurant or to pay for dinner. Most people use other apps for that. In addition, there is probably less than 10 restaurants in all of China that operate using only an app. I have never seen one until this video. I do use another app that is just as popular for some cool things. I pay my rent, utilities, store purchases, and take out with the Alipay app.
The New York Times manufacturing consent. The NYT comment about human rights is laughable. Obama just made sure that we will not be able to read the senate torture report for 12 years. America tortured hundreds of people. Many of those people were later proven to be innocent. Some of those people died while being tortured. Yet, according to the NYT we need to be concerned with China's human rights violations.
jeep1077 couldn't agree any more. Rare to find a white person leaving comments without bias
jeep1077 Does everyone forget the u.s. keeps tracking Merkel's
handy record? Are u.s. citizens really naive enough to think their gov will just let go of the things happening on the continent itself? It's so funny NYT cares so much about others' business, solve your own problems. Raise the folks' living standard first.
chinese are Mad.
josue Nogueras you are Rude.
Spitballing from China I read reD rwad. then ....
I left China and studied in US 6 years ago. Even though i went back home at least once a year, I still feel that I am so much left behind. The rapid development of China fascinates its own people. I am glad I will be back home soon to be involved in this amazing process and to catch up!!
wow really appreciating!!
Wow ! Thank you for the insight.
Yes, your not wrong about rapid development because I was very surprised and even shocked to learn about China 4G mobile network which signed up and incredible approximate 25 million subscribers in 1 month. They rolled out 1 million mobile towers which makes our mobile network look tiny in comparison. AUSTRALIA 15,000 TOWERS, CHINA 1 MILLION TOWERS. 😨 And if this was amazing enough possibly everything else is double or triple of America. Solar Power, Hydro, Wind, Coal and even though I don't like it nuclear power plants are being built.
Fastest train in the world or one of the fastest.
Unbelievably huge airports modern and efficient.
In many ways China is the envy of the world. ☺
***** Oh well maybe not everything is modern and efficient but when China does projects it's usually on a huge unbelievable scale. The three gorges dam project now that seemed like an incredible accomplishment considering the scale of the project and the amount of power that will be harnessed from the 24 generators contained within.
I don't know enough about the economy all I know is who is trying to interfere with your currency.
Yes I was curious to know about China's 4G mobile network after a comment I read on a forum in Australia.
The man said he didn't think Huawei could handle being a potential tenderer for building or upgrading our mobile network.
Well after reading about China's 4G mobile network I could not help laughing at the that man's ignorant statement because obviously Huawei is building hundreds of thousands of towers on an incredible scale the like that we have never seen. 😂
If this isn't a Chinese government-sponsored commenter, I don't know what is.
Whatever WeChat does with our personal information, so as FB and CZcams.
theres 1.2 billion wechat accounts they wont spend as much time...
This video is so well made, I remembered it in 2019, and showed it to someone just today.
The government don't need to microchip us!! We so stupid we carry the chip around ! (mobile phone) 🤣🤣🤣
MR Stonedalot This meme was sponsored by CCCP Gang
I'm glad you put the answer in brackets in case we were too stupid to connect with you on your intellectual level.
@@mandokir next time I will use caps lock 😂😂
The chip is not to monitorize you,it is to control your body heath
@@mandokir no hate but those are parenthesis not brackets. These are brackets [ ]
I have wechat but didn't know I could've done all that, wow.
It depends what version you're using. The Chinese version for people in China is the one that can do all that stuff. I'm using it outside of China to talk with my Chinese friend and I can't do any of that
So the Chinese govt. has created the best most smartest way to track its people using just one app. WOW
+Hugh Jazz nope not all all. Google tracks your on CZcams, gmail, chrome(so every website) every site that has ads. Google maps, and if you own android they track that too.
Facebook tracks Instagram whatsapp every website that has a like button. The US is no different they just don't put it in one app
I know that govts of both countries track very well, im just saying that this app is far more efficient.
+Hugh Jazz yea definitely far more efficient since its in one place and the important part is it's tied to your phone number. So while there are ways to hide from Google/Facebook on the Internet. On wechat your phone number is you!
well, on the other side Google Amazon Facebook share the world information to the US government.
Puhlease!...the US govt can't even get Apple to decrypt an iPhone for them in a terrorism related case....US individual companies have no loyalty or obligations to US govt (which is the whole point of privatization, big govt not getting involved) and are protected by strict privacy laws which don't exist in China..
But the US government isn't totalitarian... You won't be arrested for being Muslim or planning a protest...
Thomas Hernandez if u are taking about the protect in hk, plz those are rioters not protesters. They set a man on fire simply because he did’t agree with the things the rioters did. The world need law and order. If u break the laws, u need to pay the consequences.
@@thomashernandez1004 Think about it, don't just listen to the US media.
@@thomashernandez1004 There are over tens of millions of muslims in China, including my neighbors and good friends. As long as they live a good life and don't engage in extremism and terrorism, no one including govt care about them. Please stop misleading the world with fake western news
They have so much population
They dont Need Other World ....
They only need food.
David Hynes are u kidding me？haaaaaa
David Hynes This is the funniest joke I've seen this year. It turns out that you are ignorant. Please keep ignorant, because it will keep you behind
@@ozzy1668 VPN.....
仔歪 yep Chinese had lots of foods , I mean , A LOTS .But the things they really need , is freedom
When you get hacked, you get hacked BIG time
not if the services require an additional pin code or ur finger print.
Matdogg2k or 'when you lose your phone, you lose your phone BIG time.'
No. You just buy another phone and log in to your wechat account, all your money, contacts and everything is still there.
+S SK so youre saying its just as bad
you think that finger print is not hackable? naive.
Google, Microsoft & Apple collects all this information as well. To better "advertise" to us and "help improve our experiences".
cyb3r tooth of course free doesn't mean free in terms, read the terms and condition, and press accept if you are satisfied, press cancel if you don't want to accept it
Yeah but those company’s are only going to use that data to make money, the Chinese government is going to use that data to control people. There is a huge difference here.
Actually, Apple is one of the few companies that really values the privacy of its users. In fact, they go to great lengths to ensure that third parties don't gain unwanted access to the data of their users (they deny the government permission for creating a backdoor into their products, they make it significantly harder for websites to track you, etc.). Apple is very transparent about its privacy and gives significant control to how its users choose to share their data. Apple certainly isn't a perfect company and has its fair share of problems, but when it comes to privacy, it is doing an outstanding job and doesn't deserve to be lumped in with the privacy standards of other companies.
Whataboutism
But the fact is, they have better regulations and, if you sue them for violations, you can win because they don't own the court. Well, it's a different story for Tencent in China. You know what I'm talking about.
It’s so cute when Americans think their government doesn’t spy on them 😉
gogolaygo Edward Snowden all day
it is talking about China with its human rights violations. it didn't say anything about th US
Have you heard of ignorance is bliss. At least this government tries to hide it.
Of course the government spies.. any government would, the question is.. how much more?
gogolaygo Every countries spies , alright ? The key is not about spying , but how much it spies
This video is so well made. Can we all appreciate that for a moment?
No, its made for china
Its a big corp with unlimited funds anything less would be stupid.
social network, which invented in USA has almost invaded the whole world. 10 years ago, we German in Germany use a social network called StudivZ, now this network doesn't exist. almost the whole world is now controlled by some technology companies which are located in Califonia. If Amazon and CZcams didn't collect my pravite information, how they recommand the similar videos or things that i interested?
this!
so you mean there isn't a “local” social app just for German?
+Andy S they are very smart.
that's is free trade, what Americans defined. their trash is full of our market and said, this is free and FAIR trade. Germany is a colony of America. We don't have bright future.
This is a minor aspect of American hegemony. America has owned Western Europe since 1945 and Eastern Europe since 1989. The CIA wiretaps your Prime Minister, and you're surprised that America owns your web life?
Trust me, the firewall is built to protect the foreigners not us lol
Xi Huang or the media will all be written Chinese xd
cant agree more
am not from china but i always believed this myself :P
how so? im not from china if you someone could inform me please let me know.
thinking about every video u'r watching,every post u'r reading is full of chinese language comment and u cannot read.it puzzling u
Good knowledge on the topic, keep going !
This makes me remember "Ants" how they connect each other, how they are crowded, and how they can achieve when together
Just letting you know Tencent started their business in 1994 and Facebook if you use the wonderful Google or Wikipedia it shows the company started in 2004, so..... Btw, if you open your iPhone location you will notice that your iPhone knows where is your "home" your "work" and so on, that how "Google" tells you " you are XXX miles away from home"
But wechat is a new thing tho, tencent was famous for QQ which was a Chinese oicq and msn. The great thing about wechat is we do have mobile QQ as well, wechat is totally not related with it. Basically tencent changed china twice in past 20 years with QQ and wechat.
+Yiheng Zhao 同学你没看懂我说什么吧，我实在告诉大家腾讯公司早于Facebook，所以腾讯没有抄袭Facebook。我虽然很早就离开故土，但是这点爱国心还是有的。
+Yiheng Zhao 同学你没看懂我说什么吧，我实在告诉大家腾讯公司早于Facebook，所以腾讯没有抄袭Facebook。我虽然很早就离开故土，但是这点爱国心还是有的。
+petergreen1994 抄袭Facebook的应该是人人网……
QQ was inspired by classic ICQ and it was originally named "Oicq", with many improvements such as server side friend list, customize avatar and search peers by location, gender, age and etc. Of cause, they called it a steal :P
one app to rule them all
i made this comment before seeing that ring at the end
Wechat will show you the route to Mt Fuji, remember to throw your phone in it.
Daywalker777r and in the darkness binds them.
Pessimistist for life.
Daywalker777r how fool you are? have heard about jack ma's company?
It’s incredible what can be done when there’s no privacy rights. I wonder how all this info is used in their freaky social credit system - that friend that was slacking off at work could lose social credit and more of that could make their life a lot worse. Dystopian
That's fake what so called social credit system, but I'm sure once you see this and you'll immediately say that I'm just afraid to lose my credit. Yep, tried it thousand times, and people only believe what they think it's true.
lmfaooo yet another degenerate who read 1 propaganda article about China and is now babbling like an expert about a bs social credit system that doesn't even exist. my oh my the level of ignorance in this comment is overwhelming.
Honestly it would be nice to do everything in one app
This shows that when you can block out big tech monopolies like the facebook or google -- or other big digital waste-making companies -- you can achieve real and worthwhile innovations.
thucydides Neo not really true. Those Chinese tech firms have always been among the worlds largest.
WindFondue That's because they are allowed to be large in a different ecosystem - a local one rather than a global.
We chat or Tencent the company is totally a copy cat. Every tech feature that WeChat or QQ offered is copied from someone else. The real innovation is the business model! and how they make money. the This copy cat is a monster now. It ever start to buy the originals.
beterhans well it's not the truth. that is an old idea believed by thousands people. in the beginning yeah tencent messager was like the old well know MSN. but Tencent rapidly purposed one software with thousand free possibilities. and even again today no one software can do more or same even the paid one. they have the great and Microsoft still purpose is poor Skype for example.
and it's the exact same for cloud and streaming music service. the Chinese one beat so far away western company and for free...
but of course the truth is hard to know if we don't read Chinese. they are the king and western company stuck with their old api.
they copy us by pass ok. but now it's clearly us who should copy them. and it's like that since 2007.
beterhans well I didn't see those functions in the other app ... why do u say they copied them
im a chinese,im now watching this video by using VPN,im 22, i have been doing this for 6 years,no one cares what i do,it is really not difficult,just download one from the internet and install it,
What VPN do you use?
就是
The fire wall had a gate and the USA gov has the key lol
What about CIA, FBI, etc?
@R. S. Every such group claims to exist for good!
What appeared evil yesterday became Angel today,
What's appearing like an Angel today mayn't be the same tomorrow!
Every group claims to exist for the good!
0:38 U put Japanese characters on Chinese internet. Well done.
张乐扬 I was confused when i saw that
Well I'll be damned XD.
You can actually read The Matrix? =)
So who are ya japanese or Chinese?
张乐扬 well the Chinese hate the japanese so they would ofc block most japanese websites
Ummmm, I am a Chinese Mainlander born and raised in China. Honestly, I don't mind the government having access to some of my personal data,I've also asked some of my friends in China and they answered nearly the same.
The reason I am pointing it out is that such a super app lowers ur living cost and improves people's living standards or living quality and you can feel this stronger if you live in a city.
Plus, if I am not a terrorist nor do I have a terrorist mind, why should I be terrified if some company/government knows where and what I eat for lunch. Right?
On the other hand, to you guys, how do you make sure your information is not shared or sold to your government? Think about Apple a bit.
Yeah, Pls comment if you disagree or wanna add something~
(Don't mark my grammar and stuff, I know I suck at English...)
People here are not ok with government playing a large role in their lives. Conservatism is one of the main political ideologies in the United States and it is all about minimizing the role of government.
Even people who are not conservative would rather have have ownership of their data. The recent administration has made it legal for companies to sell people's data without their permission, but I think that is something we will be able to correct with a new congress. Me personally I think if a company wants to make money off of my data then they should need my permission or compensate me in some other way, because otherwise I'd rather use another service that will respect my privacy.
Ok, so you're not a terrorist but a dictatorial government is a timebomb that will ALWAYS be a threat to your long term standard of living, and the only way to remove it is through information, organization, protests etc, which you cannot do if they know you're trying to do it. The Chinese people are blissfully ignorant right now and are selling themselves out cheap.
罗天豪 uh know I agree with uh but at some how its not good on other side.
Well we should understand there is nothing like privacy in this world when uh Move from ur side 🙌
Steinbot no wonder. That shows how different is western cultures and Eastern Asian cultures. We chinese do not really mind.
I think if you studied the history of the world (Western and Eastern) you would know that the greatest sufferings of human history happened when the state made decisions for individuals. You may not even have access to it because in your country it is the state that writes the history of its people.
For CZcams, we have Bilibili.
weiwei li ok.
weiwei li TF?BiliBili ?That is just a poor software for five-year-old kids
s SIMON Is this how western people defend themselves？
BILIBILI Gan Bei
还没youtube那么厉害
LOVED the LOTR ring reference at the end!!! 🤣
Somebody please tell the new york times about the nsa and edward snowden.
AlanUy212 so many comment but not here, wonder why?
You're delusional. Internet censorship in China is so extreme that it makes even Russia look like Sweden. It's nothing like any country in the western world. These kind of false equivalencies are a favorite tactic of Chinese propagandists.
Are good question to these well brain washed amerikkkans HAhahahahahahahah...
These are users that help the evil Chinese regime.
They are manage to forget
Thx to Patriot Act and Snowden, we know US government is already doing the same thing with US tech companies, probably with better algorithm and technology.
thejeffinvade not in one app, although their apps are better polished on iOS
Snowden was all planned though. To test how the majority reacts to such information, answer is: by changing the channel. And boy aint the elite excited for that!
MalminOG what do you mean by changing the channel? As far as I know, nothing has changed
.... Every move your make ".....
Seriously! Aren't we are already being tracked
Punia _ yeah if u think carefully about this “Wechat” , it will be really creepy
If google had an app like wechat, they'd be under heavy SEC scrutiny
Being all in one app also means that it essentially has a widespread monopoly. The digital payment systems of Wechat and Alipay are accepted at pretty much every business or service. This makes for a super convenient payment system. Less trips to the bank machine, no waiting for change at a teller, and no annoying heavy change in your pockets. Just scan a QR code or the vendor scans a barcode on your phone screen. Also keeps a record of your payments to vendors or your friends. Of course the danger is that all of this information is recorded by ONE app. The data mining behind the scenes must be enormous, and invaluable.
You never put all your eggs in one basket....that's day one stuff.
Are you saying Fb and twitter?
2ruthfox82 Because when you put everything all together, you get lazy and fat
Being All in one app is really a great quality
The team who made this video e.g. narrator, writer and editors have done an amazing job! Brilliant video!
incredible production! That last drone shot, woo! Amazing content too
That's obviously CGI, probably the 3d City pack from video copilot.
+Harry He lol ya
he thought it was a real drone shot...looooooooooooool
I thought it was watch dogs
Do you know that in China, CCTV are every where, but we feel safe instead of scared. I lost my bike and got it back in three days by checking video clues.
Elijah, did you steal it back? Or call the cops on the thief?
because you're a foreigner.I lost my smartphone call The police ,finally they do nothing.
中国有句话：一等洋人，二等官，三等少数，四等汉。
Elijah Hua even in toilets?
How much is the Chinese government paying you to defend the way they trample over their own people?
some shops in Guangzhou have already refused taking cash. They don't prepare changes. You can only use wechat or alipay to tranfer the pay.
That ring of power at the end? subtle...
LOL. American companies like Google and Facebook are the ones we should be afraid of.
canuck21 Exactly
You should fear any monitoring entity
True
the prejudice is strong with this one
The WeChat ring animation is so effective and evocative
So the app is pretty much the entire phone? Just think about it. If you only need that app, it _is_ the phone!
若论对公民信息的监控，我觉得美国政府还是不遑多让，技术比共产党强多了。
这方面半斤八两，谁也不用说谁，不过对媒体的控制力除了朝鲜比中国强，其他的也没谁了
No denying China over the last couple of decades has emerged as leaders in innovation- whether copying & evolving products to fit their needs or developing a genuine original idea.
As someone who's lived in China for 15 years, I can confirm. Whenever I go out with my friends I don't bring anything except for my phone. I can text them, call a cab for the place we're going, play some games while I'm in the car, order food at the restaurant, pay for the food, buy a movie ticket, all in one app. It's really weird adjusting whenever I go back to the U.S. since I need to bring a wallet with me.
Chinese here - absolutely flabbergasted when the store doesn't scan your QR code
The idea of intranet for neighborhood, cities, states and countries sounds pretty good. To go international should be a choice, not a must when connecting to the web.
It would definitely improve privacy and trust.
No censorship is good censorship.
Stalking internet users? Search the US PRISM program.
As if Google doesn't have enough features to lead a 1984 scenario..
I dont see any ads on wechat though
data gathering all in one app.....too smart
Cool, but I think they should've used Chinese characters at 0:32 instead of katakana as they are Japanese. I don't know why it bothered me. I'm just really fussy...
who cares. asian look all the same
classic racism and ignorance.
+Josue Nogueras Really that how you think about other part of the world
It's a reference to the Matrix, which features scrolling katakana in green text to depict a dystopian virtual world.
Nice touch on the gold ring at the end, WEchat the one that binds us ALL!!!
One ring to rule them all
- Nice touch at the end
You get married, have 3 children, start a business, send your kids to college, sell your business, start your retirement, get ill and die... *You've never left the app*
lol perfect!!!
Cool vid but a bit exaggerating. I use wechat for msging, ubering and making small payments. That's all.
No idea that dog washers actually exist in China.. Don't think that wechat gathers more private information than Google or Apple.
I think it was just a general example. Most people don't hire dog washers, but if they did, they could use the app to do it.
CZcams and Google _also_ don't exist in China. This upload was just pure speculation on a CCP App where they continue to attempt to isolate their government and people from the rest of the world. So scared of legitimately using Western services, but so eager to steal them, recode them and stamp their own names on them.
+Jeremy Madsen
You are right about one thing, CZcams is blocked. Google is available in China but nerfed. But to get over the 'wall' takes one click - it's the easiest thing. The China gov knew and accepted this long ago. All Chinese can go on CZcams FB Google if they want to. I've seen lots.
As for the 'copy' accuse, it is simply not an issue to get on. If wechat copied whatever apps you had in mind, then Line, Viber and Tango all did cuz they came out about the same time or later. And certain functions like the Wechat Wallet was far ahead than when Apple Pay got popular. Now in China no one carries credit cards around cuz they get to choose which card to swipe in-app.
I've lived in both USA and China for years. Neither of their press was telling the utter truth. Reading a few articles from either side of the press will give you BIASed views cuz they are somewhat manipulated to serve political purposes.
JO H Your retort sounds well based. I will accept it. One thing most the US doesn't realize is China has the #2 largest payment card. By their refusal to use Western products, they've managed to create some interesting global commerce alternatives.
I agree that even the US press generally has an agenda, though not usually mandated by the government.
Thanks for your well worded reply.
I thought your profile picture was real until you said 'nerfed'
I've been living in Shanghai for 3 years. I can confirm all this. Wechat is all people use, all the time. It's extremely powerful and convenient. I barely use cash anymore. I even pay my bills and rent from it. It's quite insane.
Nice LOTR touch at the end!
In Sydney you see so many places with alipay or wechatpay stickers at the checkout. I have linked my account to wechat but i haven't tried paying with it yet
Forgot to mention that you can pay your bill or recharge your SIM card with it.
They could do that in other countries as well.
Autumn Shag the point is everything in a single social app
Jocelyn C In Indonesia, you go to convenience store that located within 1 km of each stores. And you pay for every bill you could think off. Electricity, Internet, Water Bills, Buying products online, Bitcoin, etc.
In china you used to pay all those bills with ATM downstairs
Autumn Shag yes same in many countries but personally i would prefer to do everything just with one app my phone anywhere anytime
anything like paying bills, shopping, calling and pay for taxi, buying movie tickets....
Hey American, I think you know what Edward Snowden said.
Immediately I installed wechat ever since watching this video 2 yrs ago and I never regret that, what an app
In india, PayTm is kind of like this. They have integrated so many features or apps should I say in 1 app which was just a payment wallet before.
what 's more important is ...wechat 's SUPER fast&with very few ad. on itself ...i can't stand the way that twitter&fb keep pushing me the ad. while when i want to open the app, they both SUPER slow.
Come on man you think you have privacy in US ? Naive
And I'm Chinese I don't even know Wechat can order food, instead we use Ele.me which endorsing by Kobe now. Obviously western media is creating China panic everyday, LOL
sean peng nigga😂
if you think people are hating on china think again and scroll through commnents and see the anti american in a video that focuses on china that does not have to do with america but only anti american is shown in the comment am not american but i get frustrated how they hate america so much like every video i see on youtube i can't help but seeing at least 10 anti american comments n a video that does not have to do with america at all like bringing native americans and history and how america is being in other countres wars
I always wonder how people who hate the US love american products. Like youtube, or facebook.
Autumn Shag why like or hate any country, it's the ruler who give orders, not the people
One who binds them all. It's also easy to sell stickers for the chat part of the app.
the phone home screen is gonna get pretty lonely if most of the apps fused into one.
We chat is so big now it has its own rap song😂
umm im sure they are already tracking everything were doing a while ago... It just isnt on One app...
finally someone said it.
For niconico the sharing website like youtube, you have Bilibili.
Later that day The man with the big vacuum invested in humus and became a billionaire
I think companies try to do that since ever. Its not a trend. But they fail because they can't do that well enough. Some barely can do their purpose right. Many good ideas being killed because the app doesn't work (visit Google Play). The big question is how Wechat manage to do that. How they manage to keep growing while the competition didn't catch up? I mean, if you are a very good messenger and you are trying to get into Uber-like business you will probably fail, because Uber already exists. Wechat probably get into all those business where competition were bad at the time and now, of course, hardly someone will be able to reproduce that level of success.
Google tries hard and fail miserably even owning ours phones operational system, which should be a huge leverage (Google pay, plus, allo, etc etc etc so many). You can name here Samsung (S Voice, Bixby, Chat, Pay) and many others.
Does the chinese government finance the app? Is Wechat government company? There is some key to the story that you didn't reveal. Some ingredient, back into the past, that allow them to reach what every single company tries hard and fail.
Probably lack of government interference (at some degree) or lack of public pressure to stop some "new" invasive feature? I explain myself. Google was collecting SSID with street view cars. That allows them to do a lot of stuff, such as pinpoint your location even when GPS is off. Shut down by government or public pressure. Many street views shot are blurred (entire front houses in Germany - a feature Google had to made available for germans "fill out this form if you want to blur your home") making the feature almost useless in Germany. Street view photos now allow the computer to know where is a store front or a house, making Google maps have the unique and most curious feature: show in yellowish/orange commercial zones. So simple and unintrusive that most ppl didn't even notice that data is there. And its accurate to the level of each building. Gmail early issues with computer reading emails. Google books huge ambition and the fairly sad results, and many other examples.
Does chinese companies have these problems? Or citizens are so used to that level of invasion they just don't care, leaving companies free to innovate as fast and risk-free as possible?
Or perhaps Google weird culture to re-do things from scratch rather than improve step by step like companies used to do in the old times. (Google talk > google chat > hangouts > allo). Or Orkut > Google plus. While simple products that slowly grown into a big one, still here (Gmail, Chrome, Android). - For instance Chrome was supposed to be your desktop OS, your browser and replace android. Google won't risk doing that, but that was the plan.
Wechat probably have teams that work on the same feature and obey "upstairs" orders to the letter. While Google needs to accommodate a career plan to its employees to avoid demotivation and accommodate fast growth. While asians are used to stay in the same level for years.
And in some degree Google reached something similar. While you "leave the app" you never leave Android, and you can see in Google Dashboard they have every single word you told your assistant and every single time you opened an app, which time, how many times, etc. Google is focusing on being under the app not the app. You can use an app to call a cab, but you will use Waymo car. You can use an app to make a payment, but google knows when, how much and where. I guess western world doesn't accept monopolies as well as the eastern world. They love buying a TV and a car from Mitsubishi, or a bread (I'm not joking) and a car from Tata, or a boat or a car from Hyundai. Non-specialized companies are not seen with good eyes here.
Douglas
I didn't look too much into it but wechat doesn't have everything, for example, they integrated Didi(basically Chinese Uber), meituan and elema(the food ones), and countless other companies' services into wechat so u can use them with no gap. Also, wechat have a competitor called Ali pay.
Douglas BTW wechat is from Tencent, three of the biggest tech companies in China
great video. wish it was longer.
But sometimes it can be so overwelming. I hate it so much every time you are asked to order your meal by scanning the code bar on the table
Should be titled "How WeChat is Changing China"
I am a Chinese. WeChat can do lots of things but it’s not so crazy like what the video shows. You can check your data usage on your iPhone. For me, WeChat accounts for 20% of data usage every day. If the video is real, then the number must exceed 80%.
Ok, I am a Chinese guy, though it might be a little comfortable to live with Google, I don't think it's necessary, not even the Twitter and FB. Wechat is awesome, you can really do everything with it. when I was in the Netherlands, for example, I had to transfer the money via bank but not just press a button on Wechat or Alipay
They say nail pointed out will be hammered eventually, this video showing that
Wow. And it makes it harder for people to quit social media or manage their screen time.
you win, new york times... you know more than i do about wechat
0:38 yeah we're just gonna run japanese signs in the background of the chinese country outline, no one will notice
Caro Honest thought that was hanzi
Who installed WeChat after this
It only works in China.
@Dark of the knight what did you comment?
@@shubbyshabaas I live in Malaysia and WeChat works perfectly fine here, for messaging and stuff like that. Most Chinese people here use it, except for me bcs I don't really use it a lot. But yeah it works fine here
@@michellevyanca5280 I meant like, not just for messaging and stuff, but for also for booking cabs, reviewing restaurants, paying for things, ordering food, etc.
I use it everyday (studying in china) no one here uses physical currency anymore
"We're precious!!"
Nice video, but why did you use japanese writing instead of chinese on at 0:30?
It's a reference to the code wall rundown motif used in the film: the Matrix.
a bunch of writers tryna be smart but has no idea what's what
Because they probably can't tell the difference? :P
I know it's a reference, but they could have made the same thing with chinese writing.
Guess so too, haha
I almost clicked the like button, but as always (when it comes to China and Russia, in particular), you (the western media)had to end the video with an ideological rant, so never mind...
Love you China...u guyz are really amazing...not just copying things....u you are stable and literally amazing..
I don't know why they said Wechat has all of those apps. The Chinese equivalent of Uber is Didi. The equivalent of Amazon is Taobao. The equivalent of Tinder is Tantan. The equivalent of Yelp is Dazhong Dianping. They may be run by the same people in one way or another, but they are separate apps.
But those apps can be used through wechat app if u have wechat you know what I mean
This video should just be about WeChat. The first 1 minute and 35 seconds of this video is irrelevant.
Lol "could take us to an orwellian future" we're already there
App developer: How many services should we include in this Wechat app?
Chinese government: Yes.
Is that a E on you letter looks similar to Death Note I need that E too
I am more worried about zombies
weirdo whacky how
lol
like the west doesn't have human rights violations
Social experiment you can try for free: Leave your phone home for a few days.
Actually you can download a app like vpn to download Facebook and those other apps