The timing has a message in it. On the 10th anniversary of the launch of Apple’s iPhone, WeChat’s parent company Tencent Holdings launched a suite of Cloud-based smartphone apps called ‘ Mini Program’.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, analysts believe that WeChat intends to “play a leading role in the next decade” of the smartphone software business.
China’s Tencent takes on the App Store with launch of ‘mini … – TechCrunch
http://news.google.com Jan 9, 2017
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the iPhone, a device that practically invented the smartphone genre in itself, but, over in China, a more modern..China’s …
Miniapps – the next weapon in WeChat’s expansion bid – Asia Times
http://news.google.com Jan 6, 2017
WeChat has acted as many people’s Facebook, wallets and even travel agents and now the company now is introducing a new tool that will simply wipe out the necessity to download a …
BACKGROUND
Tencent: Inside China’s ‘killer app’ factory – Financial Times
http://news.google.com Dec 15, 2016
Chi Tsang, internet analyst at HSBC, says Tencent has “the most killer apps in the world”. Weixin, along with the WeChat app outside China, has 846m active monthly subscribers. …
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