WeChat isn’t cool enough for kids anymore so China’s viral king is planning a competitor
WeChat’s dominance is both a trigger to create contenders and the reason they never succeed
WeChat has an absolute stranglehold on smartphones in China. But now many people are betting that there is room for other social apps.
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We have yet to receive a comment from Bytedance about the app, and there isn’t any detail about it from the Chinese reports.
Yinyu, for example, has been one of the most popular apps among young people lately. Literally meaning “voice encounter”, the app matches users for a karaoke contest -- challenging users in a “chat” room (singing room?) to compete to sing the next verse displayed by the app. Launched in September, the app has been among the top five of the social networking category on China’s iOS app store, and is currently ranking the 12th of all free apps.
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