I guess if ChatGPT told you to glue the cheese onto your pizza, you'd eat it that way.

Wechat is also the mainland version. It's always been Wechat, and in particular it was Wechat years before they kicked me off of the mainland Chinese version† for registering an American phone number. The reality is exactly what I already told you: the app's name is 微信 in Chinese and Wechat in English. This is why coverage of Wechat's extensive market penetration in China always calls it "Wechat".

Don't believe everything you read in the results of the stupidest web search you know how to run. If you try facts, you might like them!

† By the way, "version" is really stretching things. There is no difference in the app. They don't keep your data within China, you go into a different advertising segment, and by default you connect to a different in-app sticker shop.

That would have been great to include with your initial comment instead of seemingly picking at nits and then making inflammatory comments.

Always love the use of a dagger though, I don't see them too often online!

> There is no difference in the app

There are tons of difference. Wexin has more adware/spyware, no CallKit on iOS, local payments.

There's even a chat firewall between wexin and wechat.

It appears that if you register with a Chinese phone number, you have a Weixin account with a different service agreement [0] than a WeChat account [1], and your data is in fact hosted in China.

So the app functions differently depending on who (or an inferred "where") you are and you as the user have different terms - how would you describe that? Could "version" suffice?

0. https://weixin.qq.com/cgi-bin/readtemplate?lang=en_US&t=weix...

1. https://www.wechat.com/en/service_terms.html

sources:

https://weixin.qq.com/cgi-bin/readtemplate?lang=en_US&t=weix...

https://www.wechat.com/en/service_terms.html