What are WeChat Mini-Programs? A Simple Introduction

The first O2O service other than ride-hailing to truly take off was food delivery. China’s internet juggernauts and a flood of startups like Wang Xing’s Meituan Dianping all made O2O food delivery plays, pouring subsidies and engineering resources into the market. Crowds at Chinese restaurants thinned out, and streets filled up with swarms of elect

The second reason for WeChat’s success was simple: it was in the right place at the right time. In 2010, just before WeChat launched publicly, just 36 million smartphones were sold in China, but just two years later that number had exploded to 214 million.[1104]

“feature APIs,” lets one app ask another specialized app to solve a particular problem, like calculating driving directions, sending text messages, or translating sentences. It’s like how you could call a plumber or carpenter to fix problems around your house instead of trying to do it yourself. Apps