time Mark Zuckerberg likes to run. In 2016 Facebook’s boss pledged to cover 365 miles that year and, ever the overachiever, completed the challenge by July. He does not practise martial arts, but his almost discomfiting poise could lead you to mistake him for a master of something like aikido. That would be appropriate, for in his professional life Mr Zuckerberg is trying to turn his opponents’ energy against them.
Mr Zuckerberg expects migration from the online “town square” to a digital “living room” to continue; stories may soon outnumber posts on Facebook’s newsfeed. The plan is to build it around WhatsApp, which already offers secure texting. It would let users find each other, pay digital and offline shopkeepers, or purchase a cornucopia of online services—perhaps one day using Facebook’s own currency. In time, the thinking goes, it may become as indispensable to Westerners as WeChat is in China.
That is just as well, for “platform shifts” are tricky. Microsoft did not see smartphones coming and Facebook itself almost missed the rise of mobile apps. To succeed, it must clear a number of hurdles. The first is technical. Facebook wants an Instagram user to be able to send a note directly to a friend on WhatsApp. Creating a common phone book for these services, with a combined total of 2.7bn users and different source codes, presents a knotty problem for programmers.
US is looking for occupying the rest of the world (West & Africa). no more WeChat enough is enough
How about building a Chinese wall
So he sell all your conversations to the highest bidder?
Thanks but thanks Facebook
If Mark may read this: Wechat allows user to obscure his tel no. & just show user name, not for Whatsapp - that's the strength; confidentiality is v important nowadays.
MarkZuckelberg please don’t. The facebook mess is enough.
Will he ban any who object less?
The Manchurian Candidate? 😉
What's going on here? US tech copying China tech, not the other way around?
QQ is strong in the sense that it allows to search groups. Say, if you have bought a property & u want build a group forum connecting all the proprietors who are unknown to you, QQ can help. Both Whatsapp & Wechat does not hv such function.
In fact, Whatsapp is just similar stuff. What you need is only to add the features of Wechat that is missing in Whatsapp.
Aka secession 👍
Give it up Zuckerberg. MySpace went out. Facebook is going out now. Be glad you made your money and spend time with your wife and child!
Ok but who's gonna build a China for the west, huh?
I call it chatbook and it's 1 hundred percent FREE after you give us your social
He can etadik.
Does it include the communist social credit scoring system? No thanks, Zuck!
Despite all the technological advantages, WeChat is used by Chinese government to control the daylife of its citizens. It works as the basis of social control. Zuckerberg's projects must be seen with caution.
Also something just as prone to being spied on by the government, but who's counting?
WeChat is common around the world 🌍 already
What's the worst that could happen, right, bronwynwilliams?
Modify WhatsApp that can’t be blocked in China
Shouldnt he be looking to build WhatsApp for China
Mark Zuckerberg belongs in jail for stealing and disseminating customer information.
no thanks
He can't! telegram is already there.
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