[mikro2nd]

And what is that model?

[sk0g]

Build a super app that contains an in-house variant of almost everything that becomes popular. WeChat for example.

[senttoschool]

This isn't the model I'm referring to. The new generation of Chinese software companies are more like the ByteDance model.

https://hbr.org/2022/02/how-bytedance-became-the-worlds-most...

[lloydatkinson]

Is global mass surveillance and deliberate culture erosion part of this model too?

[senttoschool]

I'm not sure why you are accusing the US of mass surveillance and deliberate culture erosion.

[lakomen]

Not sure if serious

[acatton]

One multi-usage phone app (chat, pay, navigate, …)

[mikro2nd]

Ah... so the one that myriad people have been chasing for at least 2 decades, now. I've lost count of the number of companies I've consulted to who were chasing that chimera. Good luck to them, I say, while gleefully taking money off them.