How important is WeChat to Tencent? 10 major functions from Apple to Toutiao

As China's national-level APP, there are not many people who do not have WeChat installed on their smartphones. It has even replaced text messages and phone calls to become the preferred application for daily communication.

With such user stickiness, WeChat is extremely important to Tencent. How important is it? Some netizens made a magical picture, which clearly shows Tencent’s ambitions in WeChat .

On the “Discover” page of WeChat, Tencent lists 10 features, and each of them can even find competitors. Tencent can compete with the products of its competitors through one of WeChat features, as follows:

Friends circle: Weibo

Video number: Just Douyin

Scan: Pay

Shake: Press Soul (Note: a dating app)

Take a look: Kick the headlines

Search: Baidu

Live broadcasts and people nearby: Step on Momo

Shopping: Eliminate Taobao

Game: NetEase

Mini Program: Peeling an Apple

From this picture, we can see that Tencent has integrated a lot of functions into WeChat, from social networking to video, from payment to search engine, from live broadcasting, games to APP store. Almost all the functions that we think of in daily life can be realized on WeChat.

But how does WeChat officially define WeChat? On January 19, WeChat held its annual WeChat Open Class Pro. Zhang Xiaolong, senior vice president of Tencent and president of WeChat Business Group, said that WeChat was designed to be a small and beautiful product from the beginning, and it is still a small and beautiful product now.

Zhang Xiaolong believes that although WeChat now has many more functions than it did ten years ago, it is still as simple as it was ten years ago.