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Question - what do you do about sim cards? Do you change it from one phone to the other or do you have two separate sim cards?

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Jul 30, 2023Liked by Trungphan2

One thing about Wechat that I haven't seen anyone in the West talking about is its mini-app capability. It's basically turned into a platform for developers to make really lightweight applications on top of....so practically every restaurant in China (even Kfc and mcdonalds) uses it for in-restaurant ordering and payment. It's even supplanted dedicated e-commerce apps, so stores like Uniqlo have built their e-commerce/online shopping with it. So a lot of its growth has been organic third-party driven. Will twitter/X be able to replicate this?

Another thing is that wechat's only been able to do all this because online payments in China is a duopoly, wechat/alibaba have basically split the market. I'm not sure that the social media/DM functions in wechat have anything to do with its success, since Alibaba/alipay have half the chinese market for online payments an e-commerce without having had the SM/DM functions.

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Jul 29, 2023Liked by Trungphan2

“Why don’t you put a time restriction on the apps?

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA.“

fuck you

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Jul 29, 2023Liked by Trungphan2

you stole my idea :<< i started doing this like 2 months ago when i switched carriers, i was too lazy to make a backup and fully switch phones so i set it up like new, kept only essential apps, black wallpaper + color filters in settings on, and i carry that with me throughout the day while my fun phone has all fun apps (yt, [[im not looking for that stupid unicode character]] X, snap). great article though🤝

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I have been doing something like this the last 1-2 months or so.

I leave my iPhone and laptop at home during the day (office computer becomes my “kale phone”), can use “cocaine phone” intensely before I leave and when I get back.

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