Tencent and Apple Make Peace over Tipping in WeChat

From PC Mag: It's time for more tipping with Tencent—again. Apple and Tencent have reached a deal over tipping on WeChat, a super-popular social media app that allows users to send each other monetary donations, or tips, for content they enjoy.

To put it another way, WeChat's tipping feature is like attaching a bank account to a "Like" button. You don't have to tip anything on WeChat if you don't want to, but the feature allows some content authors to make a not-so-insignificant amount of money for popular content they create.

We don't know the specifics of Apple and Tencent's arrangement, but WeChat creator Allen Zhang said that the deal will now allow Tencent to reintroduce WeChat's tipping feature that the company had previously removed in April of last year.

"In the past, companies like Apple might have had a difficult time understanding China-specific features. We now all share a mutual understanding and we'll soon bring back the 'tip' function," reads a transcript of Zhang's comments at a developers' conference Monday, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.

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