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| Google Eric Schmidt: Wechat and Alipay's success lies too many people in China |
November 13, "Google APAC" recently held in Taipei - Google Asia Pacific annual media conference, Google chairman Eric Schmidt conducted in remote opening speech, expressed his optimism to Asian mobile Internet: "in my opinion, int the next very long time, Asia will become the leader in the mobile internet."
Schmidt joked that when he was in China he found "all the people there are in the development of mobile applications." He also named Wechat and Alipay:"If you look at the success of wechat,the success of Alipay, which are massing huge platform. To put it simply, the Chinese people is much more than Americans. Asian emerging next-generation software company might step further, not security to become a regional hegemon in the market (wechat is now), but will develop into a global market hegemony. "
Also when it comes to the mobile industry in Asia, we can not ignore the Chinese mobile phone makers such as Xiaomi. Schmidt said Google welcomed the mobile phone manufacturers to customize the system UI for the local user. Xiaomi MIUI became a Example: Xiaomi custom user interface (MIUI) which is especially popular, I would call it "more Asian-oriented" or more user-friendly to Chinese.
