Tencent's WeChat Has Potential to Become a Universal Messaging App

Wired has profiled Tencent’s (HKG:0700) WeChat messaging application, suggesting that it has the potential to become “The Everything App” that will streamline consumers’ mobile experience.
According to the article:
For more than 500 million users in China, it’s essentially The Everything App. People use it to talk with their friends and their colleagues, and also to strangers both nearby and across the world. They use it to book train tickets and get their laundry done, order dinner and play the lottery, pick out clothes and play videogames. It’s the remote control for your smart home, a mobile bank, and a way to renew your visa. There are popular WeChatters, who use it like a blog or Instagram account. You can, for all intents and purposes, live your entire life within WeChat. It takes a phone full of apps to replicate its entire functionality. It’s simple enough that anyone can use it, versatile enough that everyone has some use for it.
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