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>Can China do really reliable, trustworthy, user friendly software?

You should try WeChat, the most popular Chinese chat application. Apart from the legally-mandated spying, it's super user-friendly, and quite lightweight compared to the likes of MSN Messenger, Skype, Facebook messenger and Slack (uses only 10s of MBs of ram).

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The kind of software the parent was alluding to is the type that tightly integrates with hardware. It's an order of magnitude more difficult to pull off, since the two must work well together in concert.

You're comparing it to old junk. Whatsapp is far superior to FB Messenger. Discord is far superior to Skype, etc.

Does Whatsapp even have a desktop client? It didn't last time I checked. And Slack isn't "old" junk.

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