“Well you are using westernapp, there’s your problem”

I mean Facebook specifically. It’s shit at everything.

You say the same could apply to China and yet your solution is the same for the Chinese apps.

Yeah, because my point is that there’s no difference between a super-app and a tightly integrated phone OS or set of apps for these kinds of things.

Additionally, China could regulate it so all vendors have to be able to use any of these 2 or three apps and could force them all to API integrate with each other. In fact, I would not be surprised to see such a thing in coming years there.

Are they working on that law right now? What has changed recently that makes that more likely than 5-10 years ago?

Interpreting that as requiring open APIs, obviously more open APIs would very much help with that kind of integration, but right now it seems like it’s all based on the creator of the ecosystem (Apple, Google, Tencent, Alibaba) working with individual establishments or more specific apps to offer as much as possible. I’m sure restaurants have a similar process to get fully integrated in Apple or Google Maps as they do to get fully integrated into WeChat or Alipay. The main difference I can see there is the number of restaurants working with those ecosystems, which has nothing to do with whether the ecosystem is a super-app or a set of apps built into an OS.

Interpreting it as requiring restaurants and such to work specifically with WeChat and/or Alipay, that just sounds like granting a legal monopoly/duopoly to those couple of companies. If it were state run that might be great, but Tencent and Alibaba aren’t state run.