Why is the PC version of WeChat so difficult to use? Zhang Xiaolong expressed his "selfish motives"

As we all know, WeChat did not have a PC version in the early days. It was later launched under the strong demand of many users, but it is still not very useful. Why is this?

According to domestic media reports, Zhang Xiaolong, the father of WeChat, revealed in his book "The Product Concept Behind WeChat" that WeChat originally did not want to make a PC version because he felt that making a PC version would be a kind of destruction.

"When I want to find someone, why do I use WeChat instead of QQ? Because I want to find him immediately. Why do you think QQ can't find him immediately? Because you know whether he is online or not through QQ, or he is invisible and doesn't tell you, so you think you have to use WeChat to find him immediately, because WeChat gives you the concept of being online all the time."

However, many users said that inputting text on their phones was too tiring, and they often sat next to their computers but used their phones to input text. So in order to better solve the input problem, WeChat made a web version instead of a real PC version.

As for why we don't develop a PC version, Zhang Xiaolong said that if we develop a PC version, the result will be: users will no longer believe that the other party can receive the message immediately, because we may send it to a computer with no one around, so they will choose other tools that can find them quickly.

In other words, the concept of WeChat is to receive messages at all times.