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So he wants to built WeChat for US, but everyone here will either be on WhatsApp or iMessage, and good luck moving people from either of those platforms, it’ll never happen. Especially given his continuously worsening reputation.
He lacks the understanding on how WeChat was able to get were it is. Ignoring any Chinese government help they were the default chat app for China therefore on every phone and were in a market without strong electronic payment system. All the other services that WeChat has come from the success of chat and payments.
North America and Europe for better or worse have had credit cards as the standard for electronic payments for decades now. North America uses SMS/iMessage as the default chat service and Europe uses WhatsApp. Twitter is used less than Facebook messager in both ot those markets.
There's no way any company can get the kind of traction WeChat has in China. Apple might come close if they release iMessage across platforms but that will probably never happen in (unless the EU passes some new laws to force it).