I have been in China this and last February and feel this article represents the development well. One of the bug strenghts of the US of the last 20 years was the internet dominance. But the western world struggles to get the mobile internet to a point where it should be. On the other hand China&#x27;s internet grew up with mobile phones. Many people have never owned a desktop computer, maybe only know it from internet cafes. Their first internet access was with their chat app QQ on Nokia phones at a time the first smartphones came up in the western hemisphere (about 2010). Also Chinese people are less concerned about privacy and more open to try crazy new things with their phones. All that together with a locked in marked that can&#x27;t be overrun by US startups makes China slowly but surely beat the western market.<p>I certainly miss to pay stuff by phone or add contacts by just scanning their QR Code (without an extra app my iphone can&#x27;t even add a normal contact from a business card with QR Code, despite the data in that code probably using the Apple created digital business card format).