{"id":21172,"date":"2018-04-09T15:11:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T19:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21172"},"modified":"2018-04-09T15:11:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T19:11:46","slug":"native-apps-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/09\/native-apps-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Apps in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lumingyin\/status\/982382473479950338\">Luming Yin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lumingyin\/status\/982382473479950338\">\n<p>In America, mainstream native desktop (macOS or Windows) are in decline, and developers increasingly opt for building web apps or Electron apps. However, web apps vs. native desktop apps is a completely different story in companies such as China.<\/p>\n<p>Music streaming: In the U.S., apart from AM\/iTunes, no major music app is native. Spotify is Electron, Tidal is Electron, Amazon Prime and YT Music are web only. In China, all 4 major providers (QQ, Netease, Kugou, Kuwo) have native Mac apps, and they're all surprisingly good.<\/p>\n<p>Social apps: Facebook Messenger has no Mac app, but both WeChat and QQ do. Slack is Electron-based, but WeChat Work is native, even supporting screen broadcasting. Twitter pulled its Mac app, but Weibo continues its support. So, native app for every mainstream Chinese platform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luming Yin: In America, mainstream native desktop (macOS or Windows) are in decline, and developers increasingly opt for building web apps or Electron apps. However, web apps vs. native desktop apps is a completely different story in companies such as China. Music streaming: In the U.S., apart from AM\/iTunes, no major music app is native. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-04-09T19:11:48Z","apple_news_api_id":"d981ca7a-baab-45e5-9c20-eea00df01598","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-04-09T19:11:49Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2YHKerqrReWcIO6gDfAVmA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[101,1547,1627,30,32,96,219],"class_list":["post-21172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-china","tag-electron","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-web","tag-windows"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21173,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21172\/revisions\/21173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}