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by woodada 3173 days ago
Because not having Play Store != not running Android apps. People's games and other apps still need Android to run. A non-Android Wechat phone would fail for the same reason Windows phones did -- no apps.
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zild3d 3173 days ago
but isn't Wechat basically all the apps?
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ferongr 3173 days ago
No, unless your perceptions of what the average Chinese consumer wants are warped.
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seanmcdirmid 3173 days ago
Wechat is an app platform, it isn't all the apps.
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