[QUOTE=lsquare;32603500]At this point in time, TikTok is mostly video right? WeChat is more than just messaging as you know. If TikTok wants to be the next WeChat, it's going to take years and massive amount of investment to get there. At the end of the day, if TikTok builds it, will the users come? If you're in WeChat, what do you gain by going to TikTok?[/QUOTE]

1. Yes, Tiktok is mostly video, but expanding their messaging capabilities is pretty easy
2. Payment, which requires bank integration plus infrastructure, is a much larger hurdle
3. Completely replicating Wechat would certainly require a lot of investment, but they don't need to everything at once
4. The user base is already pretty solid; I'm not a fan, but kids seem to love it, and my clients want to engage them as they get older
5. Personally, I see no obvious advantages to Tiktok from a user standpoint; it just happens to be a hot product
6. Wechat was not appreciably different from QQ when it first launched (same source code, even). However, people gravitated towards it because it was new