{"id":299813,"date":"2019-02-14T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=299813"},"modified":"2019-02-15T17:15:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T22:15:43","slug":"the-most-popular-app-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/14\/the-most-popular-app-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Popular App in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Do you know what the top app in China is?\u00a0 Now, you might think you know because you\u2019re a techie.\u00a0 You might say the top app in China is WeChat.\u00a0 Have you heard of WeChat?\u00a0 Well, let me explain.\u00a0 This is part and parcel of why Apple is having trouble in China, in addition to whatever other reasons &#8212; prices and so forth.\u00a0 In China, the number one chat app is called WeChat. It is their iMessage, except everybody in China uses it for everything.\u00a0 It is even becoming more important than operating systems.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-299852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021419-Xi-JinPing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021419-Xi-JinPing.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021419-Xi-JinPing-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why Apple\u2019s big thing is iOS and Google\u2019s is Android.\u00a0 Those two things matter hardly at all in China because virtually anything ChiCom citizens want to do can be done on WeChat.\u00a0 Now, you can download a version of WeChat, I think, on the iOS App Store, but it\u2019s not nearly in this country what it has become in China.\u00a0 But even with that, it is not the leading app in China.\u00a0 The leading app in China is an app that provides citizens material about their president to read, Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>The number one app in China &#8220;rewards citizens for reading up on their president.&#8221;\u00a0 All it is&#8230; It is an aggregator.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of like the Drudge Report, except every story is about the president of China, Xi Jinping.\u00a0 Of course, if you\u2019re a ChiCom citizen, you\u2019re not stupid.\u00a0 If there\u2019s an app out there that\u2019s offering rewards for reading up on the country\u2019s president, you\u2019re damn well gonna download it, and you\u2019re damn well gonna read it, because you damn-well\u00a0know they\u2019re spying on you and you damn-well know they\u2019ll find out if you\u2019re not reading up and if you\u2019re not loyal to the president for life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-299855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021419-China-Phones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021419-China-Phones.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021419-China-Phones-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This guy has as much power as Mao Tse-tung had.\u00a0 This is who Trump is negotiating with on the tariffs and the trade deal.\u00a0 I thought, &#8220;How clever.\u00a0 What if Trump did this?\u00a0 Can you imagine how they would go nuts?&#8221;\u00a0 Now, wait.\u00a0 Not demanding, not offering rewards, but what if some enterprising software writer created an app that was nothing but what Trump says, has said &#8212; speeches, audio, video &#8212; and it was made available, maybe in-app purchases? You give it away as a download for free but then there are in-app purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Can you&#8230;? (laughing) The left would go bonkers!\u00a0 &#8220;China\u2019s Top App Rewards Citizens for Reading up on Xi Jinping.&#8221;\u00a0 By the way, I found this story in one of my tech blogs.\u00a0 They have no problem with it.\u00a0 None whatsoever.\u00a0 You can earn &#8220;study points.&#8221;\u00a0 The app &#8220;teaches the youth how to engage with their country\u2019s leadership.&#8221;\u00a0 They even publish a chart of the top apps in China &#8212; and right there it is.\u00a0 &#8220;The most popular app in China rewards citizen reading up on their president.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: It&#039;s kind of like the Drudge Report, except every story is about the president of China, Xi Jinping.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":299855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - 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