Tik Tok is the first globally successful Chinese social media platform. Tencent really dropped the ball outside of China in its day - failing to even beat Japanese / Korean applications like Line. Fortunately, newer Chinese companies like Byte Dance and Mihoyo are much more internationally ambitious and skilled at localization outside of China.
To Tencent's defense, their rise came at a different time. From a business perspective, it made more sense to focus on capturing the domestic market than to be distracted by overseas expansion. What Tencent truly excelled at was figuring out how to best appeal to the domestic consumer and specialize for the domestic market. Tencent, within a few years of its founding, took on Microsoft for the Chinese market and won. Tik Tok came at a time when the domestic market was for the most part saturated, and the only path to success was to truly disrupt the existing ecosystem. In my opinion, the most conservative and disappointing of the Chinese big tech companies is definitely Baidu, whom never appears to be a first mover in anything.
Thats one way to prevent private tutoring sector from dominating again.
Would it kill them to have some creativity? OS looks exactly the same as MacOS. Down to the settings icon.
Yeah I’m going to have to agree with this here. I literally thought I was looking at macOS Sonoma for a moment. Couldn’t hurt to make it look a bit different. It’s not like they don’t have the technical ability.
