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Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings on Monday officially launched "Mini Apps" within its instant messaging app WeChat to create a lightweight way for businesses to reach consumers.
The Mini Apps do not require installation. Users can open them simply by scanning QR codes or searching from their WeChat accounts. Each Mini App is less than 1MB in size.
The 768 million active WeChat users -- more than double the entire population of the United States -- made over 100 million voice and video calls each day via the app in 2016 Marlon Humphrey Womens Jersey , according to Tencent.
After the Mini Apps went online, some netizens said that many of the apps on their cell phones could be uninstalled to save storage space, a point especially meaningful for users of 16GB phones.
But opening too many Mini Apps still consumes a lot of storage space, so the new apps help clear the cache on a regular basis. Those kept in the cache will no longer require loading of code resources when reopened.
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Will Mini Apps replace apps?
The launch of Mini Apps does not answer previous questions about whether they will completely replace conventional apps.
To mark the release, Allen Zhang, the founder of WeChat, posted several photos of Steve Jobs launching the first iPhone on January 9 Hayden Hurst Womens Jersey , 2007. Some interpret this as an homage to Jobs, while others say that it shows the challenges Tencent faces. Whatever the case, the lightweight program marks a milestone for WeChat's growth in capturing the mobile Internet market.
According to a report by Business Insider, the new service could further consolidate the dominance of WeChat's parent company Tencent in China's app market Maxx Williams Jersey , helping it bypass restrictions in Apple's closed ecosystem to reach iOS consumers from within WeChat.
Some netizens say Mini Apps do not support the convenience of "long-press recognition" of QR codes but requires a scan, so they need two phones in order to use the service, which is inconvenient.
"Judging from their design, the apps are designed 'not to disturb users' Kamalei Correa Jersey , but disabling long-press recognition of QR codes is a bit too much," said Liu Xingliang, head of the DCCI Internet Research Institute.
Mini Apps also do not support fuzzy searches -- inaccurate input of the name of a mini app will return no results.
A source from WeChat said: "We hope users will discover and use more of the Mini Apps they need, solve problems in their lives and get connected with more offline scenarios."
To Liu Ronnie Stanley Jersey , Mini Apps are good for less-frequent use, so their corresponding apps could be replaced. But the position of specialized or frequently used apps, which usually have highly loyal users, will be hard to shake.
Dong Xu Nico Siragusa Jersey , an analyst with Analysys, said whether Mini Apps are widely accepted will depend on technology development and user experience.
Mini Apps in the future
So far, the Mini Apps only offer simple functions. For example, the mini app "Didi Chuxing" only provides Kuaiche (public car service) Tim Williams Jersey , while other services, such as Shunfengche (car pooling service), Zhuanche (private car service) and chauffeuring services are unavailable.
WeChat said more scenarios will be incorporated into Mini Apps in the future, and costs and thresholds for developers will be further lowered in a bid to make Mini Apps ubiquitous and accessible all the time. As well Chris Wormley Jersey , "nearby stores" will be added to enable WeChat users to find nearby Mini Apps.
Yet there are functions Mini Apps will never have, such as pushing notifications, allowing subscriptions and followers, and recommending Mini Apps to other users.
According to Business Insider Tyus Bowser Jersey , Tencent is not alone in implementing the "apps within apps" concept. Apple recently enabled developers to build and launch apps within its messaging service iMessage, while Google unveiled Instant Apps, which allows users to engage with portions of apps through deep links without the need to download them.
SHANGHAI, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Every Friday, Lu Junbo, an engineer in an American company in Shanghai, takes a train home to Wuxi, 130 km away.
"House prices in Wuxi are much lower than in Shanghai, and the trip is only about 40 minutes by high-speed train. It's a no-brainer for me to live in one city and work in another," said the man who calls himself a "Yangtze Delta resident."
Lu Junbo's choice is still an unorthodox one in China, but that may be about to change as cities in the Yangtze Delta plan for coordinated development, according to a plan approved by the State Council, China's cabinet, on Wednesday.
A cluster of cities in the region that includes Shanghai and parts of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, will become a city cluster with "global influence" by 2030.
The cities are being asked to replicate the experiences of Shanghai FTZ, promote integrated development of markets such as finance, land and property, and to cooperate on public services including education, medicine, transportation and social security.
Since the launch of the Shanghai FTZ in 2013, it has been used to test a number of new policies including negative list management of foreign investment, opening up more industries to them.
"Taking custom clearance as an example, the Shanghai FTZ has fast customs clearance.If the system is used elsewhere, more companies will have their cost reduced," said Shanghai customs official Zhang Binzheng.
Cities in the region will work together to solicit foreign capital, attract foreign employees, open up their service sectors and bring in more foreign trade.
Environmental protection with coordinated prevention and treatment of air, soil and water pollution is a key aspect of the plan.
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