In China, smartphone users prefer to use WeChat (known as Weixin in the Asian country than WhatsApp because it is more intuitive and complete. Many business owners even prefer interaction via video calls rather than having to write messages, the application WeChat China It has a plug-in that allows you to make video conferences easily and that works satisfactorily.
Whatsapp is like a Messenger for mobile but WeChat is much more since it works like a red social, you can upload photos and find new friends just like you do on Facebook. A very interesting function of the application is that you can shake the phone and by doing so the other user with whom you are communicating receives the distance you are at, in China it is very popular since it is common to make friends in cyberspace.
WeChat is owned by tenant, the Chinese Internet giant, have created other plug-ins such as “search around” which finds users who want to talk and who are also nearby, another application is “message in a bottle” in which you write a written or voice message and You throw it on the Internet where someone can pick it up, read it and respond to the sender. WeChat does not include the double confirmation that WhatsApp does have since it believes that this is a violation of user privacy.
Before, it was China that copied the products and ideas of the West, but in the Internet era it is just the opposite and Asia is a great inventor and innovator of new communication technologies.
There are other similar applications such as Line (Japan),Kakaotalk (South Korea) and Nimbuzz (India) which are superior to Whatsapp. There is also Weibo which is similar to Twitter. China does what it is good at: copying, they have copied something that already exists but the good thing is that these copies are better than the originals.
Will the West abandon applications like WhatsApp in favor of Chinese ones? Time will tell what the user prefers.