alt Hacker Newswechat is a pretty good app
gojek too
singapore also has some pretty great ideas
go travel a bit, there's an entire world out there that isn't waiting around
when i go to the mall here, i counted 6 korean copycat shops lol
asia is living a completely different lifestyle than us, and its popular even with us, especially with women, and its actually good, and we're still here saying asian shit is irrelevant
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> wechat is a pretty good app
And millions of Chinese bash it everyday. Shit storage efficiency, stagnated UX experience, very closed ecosystem and external link blocking, I could go on.
I've lived in various Asian countries for the last 10 years, but I've never seen Wechat used except for communication and payments with people from mainland China.
Same with Gojek. They tried launching in other countries, but it never caught on outside of Indonesia, where yes it's huge and awesome.
Grab, on the other hand, has been very successful internationally.
> go travel a bit, there's an entire world out there that isn't waiting around
> asia is living a completely different lifestyle than us, and its popular even with us, especially with women, and its actually good, and we're still here saying asian shit is irrelevant
I lived in China 5+ years and spent plenty of time in other Asian countries travelling, so how to say it politely - stop talking about "us" and preaching me about lifestyle in Asia if you are completely clueless.
WeChat is shit app pushed down the Chinese throats (I remember when QQ was still the king), because it doesn't have competition in China and you can't really exist in China without it, closed sourced with no E2E encryption for starters, there is reason why pretty much nobody outside China/Chinese community uses this actively spying app.
So yes, if by Asian shit, you mean HarmonyOS and WeChat, then yes, Asian shit is irrelevant, because pretty much nobody outside Asia uses it for good reasons (HarmonyOS because it is unusable if you wanna use normal banking apps and most of the other apps relying on GMS besides those very very few ported apps or using some virtual machine workarounds, personally I don't need banking apps and used smartphones without gapps for the last 10 years, but I am realist realizing I may be among like <0.5% Android users in Europe, completely irelevant negligible number).
The reality is that The Western Civilization, or however you frame and name your own personal lifestyle, is not as huge and dominant as it might seem to you. Every countries have own sets of apps and webs. __1984 is a work of fiction__; there is no united Oceania, Eurasia or Eastasia in real life.